What a great Monday!
Students got their report cards and information regarding the first field trip today – make sure you ask your student for all of it!
We spent a good deal of our morning talking about the math we have been doing up to this point. We talked about how it is important to understand how operations work, so when we see something like:
A + B = 10
We also know that B + A = 10.
Or if we know that A x B = 16
We also know that A x B x 10 = 160
This is all very important because in the real world, we often don’t have all the information. Sometimes we have to go on what we know, and in order to do that, we need to understand that addition is commutative, or that multiplication is associative. The kids are slowly getting it I believe, and it is fantastic.
We also started talking about decimal notation today, and how really it’s just another way to represent fractions that have denominators that are powers of ten. We went over how to name decimals, and how we can intuit the value of decimals based on the properties of the base 10 system. Essentially we are increasing by a factor of ten as we move to the left of the decimal point, so it would make sense that we are decreasing in value by a factor of ten as we move to the right.
Tonight students have some simple decimal naming worksheets to do. On the back, they should name the model both as a fraction, and as a decimal.
Our day wasn’t all math though! We also introduced a new vocab list, and did some dirty science review.
Tonight students should write one sentence per vocab word and ensure they are using it correctly by checking the part of speech.
They also have a quick Water Cycle review sheet to read and some questions to answer:
Finally, we had a lot of fun today out at recess playing with our big red frisbees, and followed that up with our radishes that I picked over the weekend. If I do say so myself, they were delicious!
so, tl;dr
READ!
Name some decimals (and fractions too!)
Write a sentence for each vocab word
Review some water cycle
And please remember to bring back your report card signed tomorrow, as well as your field trip forms!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter