Jeeeeez why can we not get anything done on Mondays?!
Just a heads up: we had a bit of an incident at the end of the day that really threw some things off. As such I did not get a chance to hand out interims or the information regarding parent teacher conferences. That will go home tomorrow. My apologies.
So we started our day talking a good bit about our stories, and specifically the setting. We talked about how we use our senses to understand the world around us.
We see things
We hear things
We smell things
We taste things
We feel things
When we are writing and describing our setting, these are the things we should be thinking about. Are we describing what we want our reader to see? to hear? to smell?
We took out a graphic organizer, and then made sure that we were describing these things in our story. We read them to our partners, and they tried to pick the things out.
Next we went out and measured our plants. We had a LOT of growth over the weekend, and they are looking really good. I just hope tonight’s storm doesn’t wash us out again 🙁
Finally, we talked about multiplication, and how we can break down multiplication problems into easier sub-problems. We did this using area models and the distributive property of multiplication over addition. This is the property that essentially states:
6 x 7 =
6 x (4 + 3) =
(6 x 4) + (6 x 3) =
24 + 18 =
42
Tonight students have 4 problems to do just as we did an example:
Please take a look at the example and do the other problems in EXACTLY the same way. I understand you might know that 7 x 6 is 42. That is not the purpose of this exercise. The purpose is to understand that you can break these problems down and understand how multiplication is distributed across addition.
This is the same way that you do problems like 45 x 62. First you do 2 x 5, then 2 x 40, then 60 x 5, then 60 x 40.
Please ensure students work through these problems and follow the example.
And then of course it was already time to go.
so, tl;dr
a lite day – just do these 4 problems as per the example:
And read!!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter