Read Alouds
In the beginning of Bud, Not Buddy, the main character is living in one of these.
When you multiply the length times the width on a rectangle, you are trying to find THIS.
What is the AREA of the rectangle?
The name of the valley between the Coast Range and Cascades on our Oregon salt dough maps.
What is Willamette Valley?
In our engineering of earthquake safe buildings we found THIS shape to be common in the stronger base designs.
What is a triangle?
The name of mr. Amorose's dog?
Who is Beatrice?
This character is known for the phrase 'whoop-zoop-sloop'.
Who is Bud Caldwell?
The name for a 4-sided polygon.
What is a quadrilateral?
The name of the people who lived on this land since time immemorial.
What is indigenous?
This the stage in the salmon life cycle where the young fish has its egg sac connected still to its belly.
What is alevin?
This is Mr Amorose's favorite sport.
What is baseball?
The name of the black slave who served on Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Who is York?
The term describing the distance across and through a circle's centerpoint.
What is diameter?
This famous 200 foot red sandstone spire rose from the prairie and let pioneers know they were on the right trail to Oregon.
What is Chimney Rock?
The force that caused the egg to drop into the cup of water without breaking.
What is gravity?
The name of the school Mr. Amorose taught at for 25 years before coming to Raleigh Park?
What is Oak Hills?
The name of the poisonous root eaten in the book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie.
What is water hemlock?
3 x3, 4 x 4, 5x5, etc name this kind of number in our counting system.
What is a square number?
This is the capital of Vermont.
What is Montpelier?
This scientist's law said: an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will remain in motion, unless some outside force starts or stops the object
Who is Isaac Newton?
What Mr. Amorose's mom would have to say if he asked for something too many times.
What is NO?
This was Grandpa's advice about what Jay Berry should do about the store clerk who was 'sweet on him'.
What is 'kiss the girl'?
This term describes any number with only two factors.
What is a prime number?
Laws of 1844 that excluded people from living in Oregon because of their racial identities.
What were the Exclusion Laws?
This is what you call the energy of an object in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
A Friday tradition for students in Mr. Amorose's class before going home.
What is given a Jolly Rancher?