WELCOME BACK!!!
Today was an absolutely fantastic first day back. All of the children were bleary, disoriented, and had no idea what was going on. I wish every day could be like this 😉
This morning we shared our track-out experiences in groups, and then each group put together their own experiences to write a fictional story about the best day of track out, and the worst day of track out. We had some really awesome days, and some very depressing days as well! Ask your student about their group’s story!
This week we will be doing a very quick review of the first quarter’s topics. We spent a lot of the morning talking about explorers, and their interactions with native populations. We did a See, Think, Wonder with the following picture:
The kids had some really great thoughts and questions about this picture. Afterwards we talked about Cortez and Montezuma, and their not exactly mutually beneficial relationship.
We also talked a bit about the writing process, and how we will be using our process as we continue writing throughout the year.
Tonight students have a short passage to read about Jamestown, and some questions to answer. They should ONLY answer questions 1-5, and they should of course have reasoning!
We then went outside and saw that our plants are growing vegetables all over the place. We had some GIGANTIC radishes, as well as a tiny carrot we harvested, and also a cucumber. We have some tomatoes to look forward to as long as it doesn’t get *too* cold in the upcoming week, and our corn was starting to stalk as well. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
At the end of the day we talked a good deal about the different mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We took some notes on multiplication and division. At this point our goal is to understand what kind of problems each operation is used to solve. In order to do this we need to understand what each operation is used for:
Addition – combining
subtraction – finding difference
multiplication – repeated equal groups (repeated addition)
division – how many ___ are in ___ (repeated subtraction)
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is where we are starting.
Tonight students have a page of word problems to examine. They should NOT solve these problems. Instead, they should fill out some blanks about HOW to solve the problem and how they know this. We did 3 examples together, and the students should do the next four problems, which means they are only doing the first 7 of the 10 word problems. As always examples are attached:
so, tl;dr
welcome back!
Answer 1-5 about Jamestown (WITH REASONING!)
Do problems 1-7 in the template given (1-3 we did together and are provided as examples)
And as always, read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
P.S. Our first field trip of the year will be on December 15th to the Museum of Natural Sciences. More information will go home next Monday, as will report cards.