Today was a bit better! We only ended up having to practice working quietly for 4 minutes, which was much better than yesterday’s 7.
This morning we watched two neat videos about the three little pigs. We talked about how point of view can completely change the story, and if we should believe someone who was there, or someone who just wrote about it. This extends to our discussions about history. Who can we believe when we read letters, newspapers, and other primary sources? Can we really trust everything as truth? Do we have to understand that there are many ‘truths’ and we may have to sift through them to see the story?
Tonight students should compare and contrast the two stories of the three little pigs. I expect to see at least 5 things in each box!
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Next we came up together with the steps that a red blood cell might go through and checked our work from last night. I was very impressed with how well many students did on this. Nowhere in the two passages did it give these steps. The students needed to read both passages and synthesize the information themselves in order to come up with what happens to a red blood cell.
Tonight students should pretend that THEY are a red blood cell. They should tell me about their day, in the first person.
A Day in the Life of a Red blood cell
Lastly we talked about subtracting with decimal numbers. This again is nothing too ground-breaking, and we used some play money and did some examples, showing how we break down larger numbers in order to perform subtraction.
Tonight students need to finish the worksheet from yesterday, doing the subtraction problems.
We also talked briefly at the end of the day about multiplication and division and what they truly MEAN. Multiplying is all about repeated equal groups. Something like 4 x 6 asks how much is 4 groups of 6, or how much is 6 groups of 4.
We then applied this understanding to multiplying and dividing by fractions. Something like 6 x 1/2 asks how much is HALF of a group of 6? Or how much is six groups of 1/2?
This was something brand new to pretty much everyone, and while some students caught on, others still need some more explanation. We’ll continue working on this throughout the 2nd quarter.
so, tl;dr
Compare and contrast Three Little Pigs with the True Story of the Three Little Pigs.
Write about your day as a blood cell
A Day in the Life of a Red blood cell
Finish the subtraction problems from yesterday
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter