There is a repeat of the info about APTT and Parent Teacher Conferences at the bottom of this post. Please read it if you have not yet done so.
Another good day!
We did many more small groups this morning dealing with main idea, and Ms. Hertling came and assisted us as well. We are really trying to get specific with our details. This will also help us later when we need to find evidence and other specific information to support our answer/our opinion.
Tonight students have two pieces of language arts homework. First, they need to answer some questions about the reading from last night. As always, each answer should come with reasoning. This means a sentence that explains why they picked their answer.
We also talked a bit about Constance
In Science we took a quick quiz on the vocabulary from yesterday, and then introduced 5 new words that students should define tonight:
Scavenger
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Parastite
In math today we had a long conversation about addition and subtraction. We talked about how addition is combining. We then talked about how subtraction helps us with two types of problems:
Finding the difference
AND
Taking away
I asked students to please think about how and why we use subtraction for two completely different types of problems like this. For instance I could say
I had 4 candy bars and Hsa had 7. How many more does Hsa have? He has 7-4=3 candy bars.
I could also say
Hsa has 7 candy bars. I took away 4. How many does Hsa have left? He has 7-4=3 left
These problems are VERY different, and yet we use subtraction to solve them both. Why is that?
Tomorrow we’ll talk more about this!
so, tl;dr
Another lite day!
Answer questions about Battle Bots with reasoning!
Tell me about Constance!
Define these words in your science journal: scavenger, producer, consumer, decomposer, parasite
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
APPT and Parent-Teacher Conference info:
Today students took home information regarding our Academic Parent Teacher Team meeting. The meetings is the evening of the 17th, which is next Thursday. I would very much appreciate seeing everyone there. I will probably bug you about this. Apologies in advance!
I have also set up a sign-up genius for parent teacher conferences. There is a link at the bottom, and also up at the top under ‘general links’. The majority of the times up right now are are either 7-8 in the morning, 4-5 in the afternoon, or 5-6 in the afternoon. If these do not work for you please let me know. If you give me a time that works for you, I will make it work for me. If you don’t sign up for one of these, I will probably also bug you about that. Apologies in advance!