Carl Arredondo

 The students took their time, stayed focused, and
did their very best on the LEAP test. As a special
treat for their hard work, Chief Meteorologist Carl Arredondo from Channel 4 news paid them a visit.

Mr. Arredondo was fascinated by weather as a boy. A television meteorologist visited his high school during career day and really sparked his interest in this profession.

His first job was at a private weather company in Houston that provided offshore clients weather data.  Following this job, Mr. Arredondo worked as a meteorologist at numerous television stations in Texas. In 1988, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia and became a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. Finally in 1991, he accepted his current position at WWL-TV here in New Orleans.





In addition to sharing his experiences and his love for weather, Mr. Arredondo spoke to the students about what forecasting entails. He showed us different websites containing weather data and explained how he uses this data to create his forecasts. He also discussed how he relays to his viewers the forecasts. The green screen, using monitors to see his graphics, and adjusting his forecast were a few topics discussed.

 The students were amused as Mr. Arredondo explained the one part of his job that he does not like: wearing make-up. Both students and Mr. Arredondo enjoyed sharing their thoughts about why he has to wear make-up.

We enjoyed his talk and thank him for taking time out of his day to share with us.

WAIT!!! How can I forget that he mentioned us in his evening broadcast? Scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch if you missed it.

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Future Architects

To end our unit on area and perimeter, students became architects and designed their dream house. The only requirement for this project was to have at least 4 rooms and include the area and perimeter in each room. The rest was up to the students. They decided on aspects such as what type of rooms they wanted, where their rooms were located, and placement of furniture.

Math By Myself

Another center in Daily 5 Math is Math by myself. And it is just as the name suggests...the students work on math independently.  Some students rolled dice to make a fraction and placed that fraction on a number line. Or, they illustrated Fraction Avenue by coloring houses or drawing dogs/trees according to the fraction on the direction sheet.

Other activities that the students chose to complete were to match fractions in word form, parts in a set, and number form or.....

 

 FRACTIONPILLAR!!! This was the favorite activity of the week. The students created a caterpillar and wrote fraction sentences representing the fraction of each color used in the body.

 

Math with Interactive White Board

I create a new game every week based on what the students will be learning. This game is played by the students when they visit the interactive white board center.

I absolutely love watching the students work at this center! The game is set up as a game board and each student takes a turn answering questions. If a student answers a question incorrectly or is struggling with an answer, the other group members jump in and reteach. 

Math Reading and Writing

One center in our Math Daily 5 is reading and writing. One choice at this center is to read a book and complete an activity. During last week's unit on fractions, Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fraction Book, Give Me Half, and Go! Fractions were some titles available to read.

The students can also choose to write about fractions. A weekly multiplication sentence is provided in which the students write the relating fact family, draw a picture representing the fact, and create a word problem. Other activities include using problem-solving skills to solve a riddle and solving word problems. The most popular activity at this center is the iPods. Students watched lessons on fractions and completed problems during the lesson.

Belle Terre Library

Yesterday, we journeyed to the Belle Terre library in search of information to prepare for our school Social Studies fair. The librarians instructed them on the use of various internet search engines and gave a tour of book locations.

The students were ready and set off to learn about their fair topic. They busily took notes and began organizing their papers. 

I'm so proud of the work they accomplished and can't wait to see their final project!