Short week? We learn stuff anyway!

This week was very cold. So we got four days off! We had our shortest week ever. We just had school on Friday! We had a regular schedule. We did have a PEP Rally at 3:00 to honor our athletes who went to DOC (Dakota Oyate Challenge) and did really well.

Jaden, Glendean, and Lee added words to our Word Wall. They read our class newsletter. It gets mailed home on Monday. They used one color to annotate facts and a different color to annotate opinions. They circled Word Wall words and we put them into our Glossary. They also had some questions to answer to practice reading comprehension.

This is our Word Wall for Second Semester so far.

After lunch we did a math activity. We got to prove the Pythagorean Theorem! A Greek guy a long time ago figured it out. If you have a right triangle and you have the measurement of two sides, you can always figure out the third side. We cut out squares to prove that 

To use the Pythagorean Theorem, you also have to know about radical signs, square roots and perfect squares, not just exponents. We learned about them last week so we could work on the triangles.

After we finished proving Pythagoras was pretty smart, we had enough time for "Choice." We could choose from reading our BAM Book (Book-a-Month Club) or working on algorithms for our cube.

Maza did the cube. He has all the algorithms memorized and now he beat his own record! He had completed the Rubik cube in 1 minute and 27 seconds a couple weeks ago. Today he did it in 1 minute and 24 seconds!! It was amazing! He is still the fastest one in our school.

The rest of us enjoyed our BAM books: