Groundhog Day Snow Day

February 2, 2011 | Posted in: Class Updates

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It sure is a good thing that Punxatawney Phil didn’t see his shadow this morning.  Otherwise, he’d have a mighty angry country!  Today is the sixth snow day of the year, and here’s your snow day work:

1. A few of you STILL owe me your Study Island responses to the Achoo! SAR prompts.  Please get them done.
2. Please complete the next two Cloze passages and check them over with an adult (if possible).
3. Remember our math lesson on Monday?  We learned about how there are some story problems where you’re left with a remainder that you cannot divide into fractions (such as a leftover car), some where you can divide a remainder into fractions (such as when you’re dividing money and can move into the cents), and some where you can choose what you want to do (such as when you have a leftover stick of gum – you can cut it up, or just leave it as a remainder).  On a piece of paper (typed or hand written), please bring into school three story problems.  One should have a remainder, one should have a leftover that you divide up as a fraction, and one should be possible with either strategy.  We’ll use these story problems in our next math lesson (whenever that is!)
4. Play Rags to Riches, an editing and revising game similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Here are some of the cloze passages that you thought of yesterday!   I never put names on the website, but I wanted to give credit to the folks who came up with these top-notch passages.  So have fun figuring out my clues!

• This one is by “The Commissioner”: Most people have seen or heard of snow.  It comes in the Winter, and at below 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degree Celsius.  Most of it comes down nice and easy, but sometimes it comes down __________.

  After it is done snowing, it’s fun to play in.

  a fast          b slow          c fall          d hard           e nice

• This one is by “Dairy Queen”: A ball can be all different _____(1)_____ and sizes.  Some are less bouncy than others.  People can throw balls.  People can catch balls.  People can ____(2)____ with balls.  People can kick balls.  People can do alot of different things with balls.

  (1) A-foods   B-colors   C-animals   D-species   E-numbers

  (2) A-eat     B-run   C-monkey   D-bowl   E-laugh

• This one is by “The person with the pretend lemonade stand in our math lesson who took $2o to get it started”: Apples are a type of fruit that grow on _________.  Apple trees grow in cold and temperate areas throughout the world.  There are thousands of varieties of apples such as Jonathan, McIntosh, Granny Smith and Red Delicious.

  a. soup          b. kitchen          c. trees          d. blossoms          e. bushes

• This passage about butterflies is by the person who currently sits closest to the class library: First it starts out in an egg.  Next it is called the larva (caterpillar).  Then they go into a pupa, and finally they become adult butterflies. Butterflies can only ______ yellow, red, and green.  There are tons of species of butterflies all over.  Do butterflies migrate?

  A) hear          B) fly          C) be          D) see          E) eat

• This passage is brought to us by the person who brought us the delicious German candy recently: The first snowboard was invented in the 1950’s and was not even a snowboard.  It was called a snurf, a combination of skiing and surfing.  Snowboarding was not popular until the 1990’s.  Now there are snowboarding competitions, like the Winter X games.  The best _____ is Shaun White.

  a) snurfer          b) snowboarder          c) skier          d) rider