IMPORTANT DATES:
Thurs, Dec 10th: Language Arts Case 21
Thurs, Dec 10th: APTT meeting # 2 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Fri, Dec 11th: Math Case 21
Tues, Dec 15th: Field Trip to North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Wed, Dec 16th: Science Case 21
Friday, Dec 18th: Last day of 2nd quarter
We then have a LONG track-out, and don’t come back in until January 25th!
Today we talked some more about persuasive essays, and how their entire point is to PERSUADE someone that your opinion is the most correct. We touched on how our reasoning must be sound and make sense. Tonight students should write a short persuasive essay. They were given these specifications:
Pick one of these and write a persuasive essay about it. (minimum TWO reasons!)
1. Should students be allowed to have cell phones at school? Convince someone.
2. Which are better? Dogs or cats? Convince someone.
3. Which are creepier? Spiders or cockroaches? Convince someone.
4. Should children be allowed to get driver’s licenses? Convince someone.
In Science we took a look back at the respiratory system, and then made a little model of a lung and diaphragm. Ask your student if they can name the pieces of the model (lung and diaphragm!) and how they describe how our breathing works.
In math we talked about how many of the problems we will be doing combine all of the skills we have been working on. Even the simplest of problems will often ask us to perform multiple operations and take multiple steps.
Tonight students have a set of word problems that involve fractions. These problems will ask students to multiply, add, and subtract fractions (some with multiple steps!). Students should utilize any strategy they would like in order to find the answers. However I personally would highly suggest a rectangular model.
so, tl;dr
Pick one of these and write a persuasive essay. (minimum TWO reasons!)
1. Should students be allowed to have cell phones at school? Convince someone.
2. Which are better? Dogs or cats? Convince someone.
3. Which are creepier? Spiders or cockroaches? Convince someone.
4. Should children be allowed to get driver’s licenses? Convince someone.
Fraction word problems!
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter