Word Nerd and Area Adventures

Today we began by helping decode some of the Word Nerd's fancy sentences using our knowledge of Greek and Latin roots.  We also used our growth mindset and persistence to work around portions of the sentence until we made useful vocabulary connection.  Next week, we will work on writing our own misadventures.

For math, we embarked on Chapter 2 and a deeper study of area.  We looked at irregular shapes and strategies for calculating the space they cover.  Students traced their "fried eggs" and estimated the surface area, piecing together fragments to make whole square units, finding larger regular rectangles within the shape to use the formula for finding area, A= length x width,  as a short cut, and counting the remaining whole squares for the total area.

Our class model

Student created model