What a great day back!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Please remember that tomorrow is the deadline to turn in the permission forms and money for the field trip to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Students who had not yet turned this in were given fresh copies today in case they were lost.
Also, tomorrow is electronics day! For our jewel celebration, students may bring in a device to play on for the last 20 minutes of our day tomorrow. Please be careful when bringing these in, as the school can not be held responsible for loss or damage. I will have some small handheld games and laptops as well for students who chose not to bring in a device of their own.
We started off our day talking chocolate milk……
The students were asked if they would support the removal of chocolate milk from the cafeteria. We had some VERY heated ‘discussion’ about this. We then had a good conversation about how shouting our opinion over and over with no actual facts or reasoning to back it up……is not exactly conducive to a discussion. 😉
We watched some short videos talking about the chocolate milk debate, and the students got some more information:
Tonight students have two articles to read concerning this debate. They should then create a T-chart in their writing journal, and give me three points from each side of the debate. These reasons should be facts taken straight from the articles, and *not* simply their own opinion.
We then talked about the different organelles inside of a cell, and we came up with our own definitions for some of the organelles found in animal cells.
Finally, we talked about decimals, and addition and subtraction involving decimals. We took out a LOT of play money, and sorted it as a class. We came to the conclusion that if we are talking about decimals and decimal problems and using the money as something to help us visualize problems, we only need the 10s, 1s, dimes (tenths) and pennies (hundredths).
Finally we did a few problems together as practice. We talked again about how when we break down a one, we get ten tenths. If we break down a tenth, we get 10 hundredths.
Tonight students have a set of addition and subtraction problems to do, involving decimals.
so, tl;dr
Give me three points from both sides of the chocolate milk argument
Do some addition and subtraction problems
Bring an electronic device if you are so inclined
And please turn in permission slips and field trip money
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter