What a weird ‘week’

 

We are spending this week trying to fill in some gaps.  It’s hard to get much accomplished with just two days, so we are focusing on little things that often slip through the cracks.

 

For instance, this morning we started talking about how different pairs of numbers make ten.  This is extremely important as students can make good decisions about how to break numbers up to make them easier to work with.

For example something like 15 + 7 is really easy if you think about it as:

15 + (5 + 2)

15 + 5 = 20

20 + 2 = 22

We did a fun little game where we did these in rhythm.  We’ll probably be doing this every morning for a few minutes.

 

Next we spent a LOT of time working on our rough drafts.  I was fairly disappointed with how many students did not get these done over the weekend, as it was their homework.  Of 23 students, only 8 finished these and had them ready to edit.  Those that were finished got some free time, while those that did not do their homework worked on this.  Even given that time, however, many students did not finish.

Tonight students MUST get this rough draft finished.  We need to do peer editing tomorrow.  So tonight’s homework is simply this:

FINISH

YOUR

ROUGH

DRAFT

 

Those that did what they were supposed to (as in, did their rough draft over the weekend) only have to read tonight.

 

so, tl;dr

ROUGH DRAFT OF PERSUASIVE ESSAY

and read!

 

 

Have a good one,

 

-Mr. Potter