APTT info and parent teacher info at the bottom!! If you sign up for a conference you are awesome!
Today we had a great number of incidents where students were not following directions and were in general way off task. Unfortunately this has resulted in us moving to separated desks at the moment. We will be reviewing expectations and how we are required to act this week, and hopefully we can get back on track quickly.
We started off today with a talk about character development. We looked at how characters were introduced in The Mysterious Benedict Society, and how the author paints a picture in our mind by describing their appearance, their actions, and perhaps even some of their background. Undeveloped characters are difficult to picture in our minds, difficult to relate to, and in general difficult to understand as readers.
We broke into small groups with Ms. Hertling and myself, and then looked at how another author (Andrew Clements) introduces characters in some of his books. We thought about what the author tells us about the characters (what they look like, how they act, where they live, etc) and looked for examples from Mr. Clements’ work. We will use these examples later to help us with our own writing. We filled out the majority of a graphic organizer about the short selection we read, but if there are any parts missing, students should fill it up tonight:
Students should also finish their Questions concerning the Eli reading from the other night. YES each question needs reasoning!
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We went outside at the PERFECT time today to measure our plants. There were a ton of bees just sitting on our flowers pollinating them!! This means we can expect to see vegetables growing soon. The students were quite excited when they weren’t running screaming from the bees.
In math today we took some paper and made our own little fraction models. Tonight students should use these in order to find some equivalent fractions:
so, tl;dr
Tell me about character development:
Answer questions with reasoning:
eli_s_mission_660_passage_and_questions
Find equivalent fractions using your paper models:
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
APPT and Parent-Teacher Conference info:
Academic Parent Teacher Teams are an opportunity for teachers and parents to work together on the same set of skills in order to progress students. The meeting 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!