Oh no! I jinxed it 🙁 So today we got a lot accomplished, but we had a pretty rough morning. We had some real problems with calling out and talking, and we had to do some practice with regards to working quietly. The afternoon was better, however!
This morning we talked a good bit about points of view again. We introduced the idea that not all 3rd person points of view are the same. There is 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient, and 3rd person objective points of view. Sometimes the narrator knows everything, including all characters thoughts and feelings. That’s 3rd person omniscient. Sometimes the narrator only knows about one specific character’s feelings. That’s 3rd person limited. And sometimes, they only know what characters do, and not their thoughts and feelings. That’s 3rd person objective.
Tonight students have a selection of passages from Roald Dahl books to read. They should identify if each passage represents 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person point of view. They should then explain how they knew what each was.
Next we looked at the circulatory system, and particularly at how blood cells act within the system. Tonight students have a short passage to read. On the back, they need to look at last night’s homework concerning the heart, and tonight’s homework about circulation, and put them together to describe what would happen to a red blood cell moving through the circulatory system. They should do this in terms of steps. Six steps, in fact!
Next we started talking about adding numbers in decimal form. This should be nothing ground-breaking, as we have been adding numbers using the standard algorithm for literally years. We discussed how we have always made sure that we are adding ones to ones, tens to tens, etc etc up until this point. When adding decimals we must also ensure we are adding tenths to tenths, and so on. Tonight students should answer ONLY the addition problems on this sheet:
Finally we took a trip to the computer lab and played around with a neat app that lets you make your own simple animations. The students had a very good time exploring and making different GIfs. We will be using this program in a project we will be doing later this quarter. Ask your student about what they made!
so, tl;dr
Identify the pov used in each passage, and tell me how you knew:
Answer some short questions and then tell me about the journey of a red blood cell through the circulatory system:
Answer ONLY the addition problems:
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter