{"id":470,"date":"2016-01-07T01:26:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-02-13T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:51:31","slug":"wednesday-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2016\/01\/07\/wednesday-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started talking\u00a0<strong>geometry\u00a0<\/strong>by playing a Battleship game! Why Battleship? Because this game involves the use of coordinates, which allowed us to talk about the x axis, y axis, how to write coordinates (x,y), quadrants, and number lines.\u00a0While having fun, we used some math skills that can be helpful for other geometry activities.<\/p>\n<p>Our geometry unit will involve a lot of <strong>measurement<\/strong>! To this end, we started today by reviewing measurement of time, as well as finding all the different ways someone can <strong>express the time of day<\/strong>. How do we express time in words, fractions, in analog form, in digital form, using military 2400 clocks, etc.? A great question came up &#8212; Why do we use the abbreviations A.M. and P.M. after the times? Also, why does Europe use a different way to tell time than we do in Canada? I challenged students to look up these times at home and bring in the answers tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I gave everyone the<strong> first handout on\u00a0<em>Skyscrapers<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> and the homework is to read the first page and then do page 2 using lined paper. If you want to work ahead, you can, but I will give time in class to do the exercises in this packet, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Debate speeches, positive and negative, are hopefully done by EOD on Thursday. More time for these in the morning, but some on the negative speech has been assigned for homework.<\/p>\n<p>The machines PPT\/Prezi hopefully will be complete by EOD Friday. More time for these tomorrow, but you may want to look it over at home.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great evening! More hip hop tomorrow morning, so try to be on time and ready to roll to the gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started talking\u00a0geometry\u00a0by playing a Battleship game! Why Battleship? Because this game involves the use of coordinates, which allowed us to talk about the x axis, y axis, how to write coordinates (x,y), quadrants, and number lines.\u00a0While having fun, we used some math skills that can be helpful for other geometry activities. Our geometry unit will involve a lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}