Spelling May 8-12 -- Lesson's 106-110
Here is the spelling list for this week. The test will be on Friday. Please remember you only have to study your sticky words, don't spend time studying words you already know.
Wondering Wednesday
We continued our exploration of polygons today. We discovered that the word polygon means many angles. poly = many, and gon = angles. Polygons have certain properties: 1. they must be closed shapes 2. they can not have curves 3. they have vertices, angles and edges 4. they are 2 dimensional 5. there are regular and irregular polygons Here is a link to a video all about polygons that we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoZhhx_I9s We learned that a polygon's name comes from the number of sides that it has. Ask your child to tell you about the names for the different polygons we looked at today. We are beginning to deconstruct words in their parts. For example, tri = 3, so a 3 sided polygon is called a triangle. Our big question for exploration today was: Why did bees choose the hexagon to build their hives? Thank you all for your amazing thinking about why this was th...
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