Nicknames
Reading
Math
Mr. Sak
Mr. Gray
100
This is the nickname for Dominick in our class.
What is Dom Capers?
100
This is a strategy for reading to better understand the story by reading between the lines.
What is inferencing?
100
To measure angles you use this tool.
What is a template or protractor?
100
This is whose shoe Mr. Sak brought in for the inferencing warm-up.
Who is his wife?
100
This is the type of shirt Mr. Gray wears too much at summer school.
What is Calloway gray golf t-shirt?
200
This is the nickname for Josie in our class.
What is Josie and the Pussycats or Josie's on a vacation far away?
200
This is a reading strategy to better understand the story when you find something in your life to compare to it.
What is making a personal connection?
200
Fractions that name the same part to the whole and equal the same amount of the whole.
What are equivalent fractions?
200
The kind of pet/animal Mr. Sak lost in the school 7 years ago.
What is a snake?
200
When Mr. Gray's power went out at home, he brought this to school.
What is food from the freezer?
300
This is the nickname for Adelina in our class.
What is Ashlee Simpson?
300
This is a reading strategy to better understand the story when you make pictures in your mind of the events of the story.
What is visualizing?
300
Graphs that are shaped in the form of a circle.
What is a pie graph or circle graph?
300
The name of the book Mr. Sak read with the students for the inferencing activity sheet.
What is How Many Days to America?
300
This is the professional baseball team's hat Mr. Gray wore yesterday.
What is the Pittsburgh Pirates?
400
This is the nickname for Matthew in our class.
What is Mr. M?
400
This is a reading strategy to better understand the book when you use sight, taste, smell, touch, and hearing. (Hint: The Hand Sheet)
What are sensory impressions?
400
An angle that is 180 degrees.
What is a straight angle?
400
This is what Mr. Sak did when the storm was happening a few days ago.
What is look out his window to make sure his grass and plants were fine?
400
This is the question/song that Mr. Gray (and Mr. Sak) asks many students during summer school.
What is "What Side Are You On?"
500
This is the nickname for Luke in our class.
What is Luke Ridnauer? (Basketball player for the Bucks)
500
The most exciting part to a book or story.
What is the climax?
500
Name one equivalent fraction to 3/4.
What is 6/8 or 9/12 or 12/16 or many other answers are possible?
500
This is how many years Mr. Sak has been teaching at Irving.
What is 15?
500
This is Mr. Gray's final math project he did with his summer school students.
What is The Million Dollar Project?