APTT tomorrow night! 5:30 – 6:30pm. I would love for everyone to come and learn more about what we need to be working on as a class in order to move forward. More info at the bottom!
Somehow we completely ran out of time today. The kids have a very lite night of homework as we didn’t get to everything I would have liked to!
This morning we did a LOT of talking about characters, and how authors develop their characters. We looked at How Andrew Clements developed his characters in Frindle vs. how Trenton Lee Stewart developed his characters in The Mysterious Benedict Society. We focused on techniques that both authors used: describing what they look like, what they sound like, and some of their mannerisms.
We then filled out a little chart about a character of our own design:
Tonight students should refer to this sheet, and then write a short introduction of their character. It should be about 3 paragraphs, and include important information from their chart. They should do this in their writing journals.
In Science we weren’t attacked by bees like we were yesterday, but we were hard-pressed for time when measuring our plants. We also did a little preview of how we are going to be putting all of our data into excel and then making charts and graphs showing how our plants have grown this quarter.
In Math today we started talking about adding fractions, and how in order to be able to add fractions, they must be cut into the same size pieces. We did some problems together and with the help of some nice fraction models, were able to transform something like 1/8 + 2/4 into a more easy to do problem of 1/8 + 4/8. We didn’t get to do a lot of this unfortunately, and so I pulled tonight’s math homework until we do some more practice together in the classroom.
This is the type of thing you can expect to be seeing a great deal of in the future:
so, tl;dr
Finish your character organizer, and write me a short piece introducing your character. Include what they look like, and other important things. Write this in your writing journal!
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
APTT is tomorrow!!
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 Tomorrow. 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!