Friday, June 5

Entry for Friday, June 5

"Ruff!  Ruff!  At the end of today...
the weekend begins!" he says with a big wag of his tail.

Today in History

On this day in history 399BC, Socrates was born in Athens, Greece.  This was before the time of Jesus.  
(Of course, the keeping of records from that time was not as accurate as today, so we only assume this was his date of birth from varying accounts.)

He was a teacher of philosophy which is the study of knowledge and how we acquire it and use it as a way we choose to live our lives.

One of his most famous sayings is, "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
What that means, boys and girls, is that education should ignite an excitement in students for learning rather than just filling the students heads with tons of knowledge.

We know that knowledge learned by ourselves out of interest and excitement will remain with us longer than knowledge that is "pushed" our way.

Language Learning

Video of Read Aloud "Because You Are My Teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3nslqDf6H0

Below are the words on one page of this fun to read book...

If we had swift kayaks we would plunge through twists and falls
Exploring the Grand Canyon where the river carves the walls!

Let's look at the word "kayak"
Spell it backwards..."kayak"

The word "kayak" is a palindrome.
A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same backwards as frontwards.  Here is a list of ten palindromes but there are many more.  Check to see if they are spelled the same front to back and back to front.

kayak
level 
madam
noon
racecar
radar
wow
mom
dad
Anna

Sometimes, palindromes can be full sentences that are spelled the same front to back and back to front...just ignore the different spacing between the words, that's all.

Check out these examples.

Step on no pets.
Was it a cat I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Rats live on no evil star.
Madam, I'm Adam.
No lemon, no melon.
Do geese see God?
Never odd or even.
A car, a man, a maraca.
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Your Reading Task

Print your three favourite Palindrome words from the list above.  For each one, write down why you like it.

Then, print your two favourite Palindrome phrases and print immediately below each one your reasoning why you like it.

Math Learning

Today we look at algebra using multiplication samples.
We know that...
3 x 5 = 15
so
3 x __ = 15
The missing number will be a 5.
or
__ x 5 = 15
The missing number will be a 3.

For 12 = __ x 6, we ask...
What number times 6 gives me 12?
Simple...2
2 x 6 gives me 12, so
12 = 2 x 6

Your Math Task

Just as you have been doing for your other algebra sheets this week, copy the questions including the boxes and then fill in the boxes with the correct number.

Student Sharing

Some more great money accounting.

Prefix fun when you add a few letters in front of a word you can change its meaning in a dramatic fashion!

Great banking skills here!

I'll hire you as my accountant!

Very good comprehension skills around the fables plus some very nice math work.
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She's a great interviewer!

I like the appearance of the work as well!

Creating sentences when given three distinct words to use can be a daunting experience but she managed the task so very well.

Knowing your budget and keeping within your means is an excellent skill to learn.

Very good use of quotation marks!

Ditto!

Even when you save up your money, sometimes you still have to wait until you have a little more!

More great looking quote work.

Using a calculator accurately is a very good skill to learn.  While the calculator does the math for you, you still have to decide which operations to choose in order to solve the problems.  Lots of fine looking submissions S.G-S.

We end with this student's prayer.
Have a peaceful remainder of your day!
Mr. Hamer OCT