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08
Dec
Ear Buds for $2
28
Nov
It’s all about the apps.
All of my apps are free.
Some are the “lite” version.
“Lite” means it is not the complete game.
Arts
123D Sculpt, Flip It Lite, Easy Origami, Let’s Draw, Puppet Pals, Origami II, Paint Sparkles, Sock Puppets, Pottery HD Lite
Board Games
Checkers, Chess, Learn Chess, Hangman, Solitaire, Mancala
Books
iBooks has tons of free books.
Foreign Languages
DE Lite, FR Lite, Learn Spanish, IT Lite, SP Lite, LL French
Games
Angry Birds, Cupcakes, Cut the Rope, DH Challenge, Fruit Ninja, GT2 Free, Line Runner, Pocket Frogs, Princess Dress Up, Prize Claw, Tiny Tower, SuperCow, Tiny Ball, Zombie Farm
Geography
Atlas, History Maps, TapQuiz Maps, Stack the States
Language Arts
Bluster, Grammar Free, Grammar, Word Abacus, Poetry Magnets, Hidden Object Crossword
Logic
Geared, Geared 2, Brain Fit, Logic Box, Harbor Master, Happy Hills, Rail Maze, Open Valve, Unblock Me, Sudodu, GeoSudoku, VaultBreaker, Spot the Differences,
Math
Count Money, Math Puppy, Math Drills, Multiplication, Math Ninja, Rocket Math, My Math App, Subtraction, Bubbles, Math Board, Fast Facts,
Music
Classical I, Piano Free, Music Sparkle
References
Cool Facts, Factoid, Dictionary
Relax
ZenSpace, Naturespace, Koi Pond
Science
Cat Physics, 3D Cell Stain, iElements, Human Anatomy, Newton’s Cradle, Star Atlas,
Sports
Let’s Bowl, 3D Bowling, My Horse, Soccer Lite, Tiki Golf 2, Crazy BBall, Puffle, Slam Dunk, Bubble Shoot
15
Nov
November 15
Logic – Party Logic – Match the husband with their wife, their last name and what color party hat they wore
Library Checkout
15 Minutes of silent reading. They were excited about their book finds and just couldn’t wait to read them.
Math – Don’t Underestimate Zero 4-5 digit subtraction regrouping with lots of zeros. We divided up the assignment into sections to make it more resonable for 2nd graders.
10 minutes of free iPad & iPod use. Some were making cupcakes with the Easy Bake Oven App, Fruit Ninja, Carnivore.
Lunch
Read Aloud – Odysseus has to make the difficult decision of whether to face Scylla or Charybdis. He also endures the pain of the Sirens Song while his men have beeswax in their ears.
We watched a short Elementary Discovery Education video. Part I was about Alexander the Great, Part II was about Philosophy (Plato & Socrates), Part III was an extremely brief overview of The Odyssey.
Logic Links – symmetrical patterns using colored discs and written instructions.
14
Nov
November 14
Logic – Cat Confusion
Pattern Block Creations 10 minutes
Library Check Out
Language Arts – iPad App – Bluster – Grade 2 – Synonyms, Prefixes, Rhyming Words.
Outside Recess – Yea!
Math iPad Apps – My Math App and/or Math Ninja – yes there are Dog and Cat Bots and a Talking Japanese Tomato called TomatoSan. The first graders are singing along with the music their math facts…”11 minus 5 equals 6″ There are no lyrics. The students are just spontaneously making up songs to go along with the music.
Lunch
Read Aloud – Eros & Psyche Comic by SAM (Special Academic Manga – a project group that produces high quality educational comics for children) It is a rated “G” version.
Logic Links using colored chips.
Board Games interacting with another human being following rules and being a gracious loser.
Story w/ Hole.
11
Nov
Friday
Happy Veterans Day!
No Pioneers for 5th Grade 
due to busing and lunch complications.
10
Nov
Thursday
Logic – Win One for the Camels
Library Book Checkout
Math Fibonacci Fun, video of Fibonacci numbers in nature, 1 Fibonacci Worksheet, 1 on complicated other sequences
Recess OUTSIDE!!!! Cold, but clear and sunny
Finished up Math – Whew, it was complicated.
Lunch
Read Aloud – The Land of the Dead
Poem Locate, Write, Memorize
Lateral Thinking Puzzles.
09
Nov
Wednesday
Logic – Troll Bridge
Library check out.
Khan Academy.Various activities depending on the students proficiency in mathematics. Our 3rd graders were trying to get the collective Pioneer Points for KA to go over 1,000,000 points.
Recess (Building with Legos, Frontier Logs, Electronic Kit, Chess, Clue)
Searching for just the right Poem. Writing it on a scroll and memorizing. Some of them chose very challenging poems.
Lunch.
Read Aloud- Odyssey. See the previous Tuesday post for synopsis.
Shared our poems using good audience manners.
Silent Reading.
Introduction to Fibonacci Numbers in Nature We will continue this next week.
Story with a Hole/Lateral Thinking Puzzle.
08
Nov
Tuesday
Logic – Secret Soup on own their own for 10 minutes. Then solve as class.
Library Book Checkout
Cool Math 4 Kids – Exploring The World’s Hardest Game
Subtraction with borrowing. Khan Academy review Subtraction 4. Then students did independent practice.
Inside Recess – Rain
Look for Poem to Memorize. Write it out on scroll. Memorize. Recite. This poem will be used for a symposium to be held in a couple of weeks.
Read Aloud Odyssey – The Land of the Dead. Odysseus was told by Circe that he had to go the the land of the dead in order to get instructions on how to get back to Ithaca. They found the blind prophet Tiresias and he told them how to get back. While in the land of the dead Odysseus and his men saw many people that had died.
Read Online: Big Universe, StoryBird, RAZ Readers, or PebbleGo
Shared our Poems with the class. They took them home to memorize.
Lateral Thinking Puzzle
BrainPop – Bullying
07
Nov
Monday
Logic Confused Canines
First graders learned how to use a 100s chart to solve 2 digit plus 2 digit addition with sums less than 100. I’m going to send home some practice for this. Example
We went to library to check out books.
Finished up Math.
Next we used iPads to play various games. Find the Differences, Halloween Fish, Cut the Rope, for about 10 minutes.
Inside recess playing with Foam Blocks, Legos, Battleship. The First Graders interacted with a human being, not an electronic device.
Next students looked for a poem to memorize. We made scrolls and wrote our poems on them. This will be recited later on in the year at a symposium.
The Symposium
Wealthy Greek men liked to gather in the evenings for what they called a symposum. This was an evening of food, visiting and laughter. Guests would recite poetry, play an instrument or sing.
After lunch I finished reading aloud the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Students then used the iPads to explore ancient civilizations in Call of Atlantis.
I gave them an extreme Dot-to-Dot that has 299 dots. This can be finished on their own time.
We then did some Lateral Thinking Exercises.
17
Oct
Greek Math Concepts
This week’s Greek concept is Math.
The Greeks used the abacus as far back as the 5th century BCE.
The Salamis Tablet
The oldest surviving counting board is the Salamis tablet (originally thought to be a gaming board), used by the Babylonians circa 300 B.C., discovered in 1846 on the island of Salamis.
It is a slab of white marble measuring 149cm in length, 75cm in width and 4.5cm thick, on which are 5 groups of markings. In the center of the tablet are a set of 5 parallel lines equally divided by a vertical line, capped with a semi-circle at the intersection of the bottom-most horizontal line and the single vertical line. Below these lines is a wide space with a horizontal crack dividing it. Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them but with the semi-circle at the top of the intersection; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line. Three sets of Greek symbols (numbers from the acrophonic system) are arranged along the left, right and bottom edges of the tablet2.
The Pythagorean Theorem was discovered by Pythagoras. He was born on the Greek island of Samos around 569 BCE. He founded a school in southern Italy after travelling in Egypt and the Middle East.
In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares whose sides are the two legs (the two sides that meet at a right angle).
The theorem can be written as an equation relating the lengths of the sides a, b and c, often called the Pythagorean equation:[1]
The Golden Ratio or Phi 
1.61803… is an irrational number.
Timeline
Timeline according to Priya Hemenway.[16]
- Phidias (490–430 BC) made the Parthenon statues that seem to embody the golden ratio.
- Plato (427–347 BC), in his Timaeus, describes five possible regular solids (the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron), some of which are related to the golden ratio.[17]
- Euclid (c. 325–c. 265 BC), in his Elements, gave the first recorded definition of the golden ratio, which he called, as translated into English, “extreme and mean ratio” (Greek: ἄκρος καὶ μέσος λόγος).[5]
The Golden Rectangle is the best way for me to understand this.
A golden rectangle with longer side a and shorter side b, when placed adjacent to a square with sides of length a, will produce a similar golden rectangle with longer side a + b and shorter side a. This illustrates the relationship 
