Welcome back!
A 3 hour delay means we had approximately 90 minutes of class-time today. booooooooos
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that we do not have a repeat of last year’s snowfall.
Even though we had just a bit of time today we did use that time to do some quick review of math and then talk about what we would be doing this quarter in language arts.
In math this quarter, we will be continuing our work with decimals and fractions. We will also start working on perimeter, area, and volume.
Tonight students have a quick set of decimal review problems to do. As always there is an example!
For the division problem, they have brought home their bags of money. They should take the decimal amount out as money, and then perform the division by splitting it into groups of the given amount.
For example in the first problem we did .5 divided by .25
This questions asks how many .25 are in .5
So you take out .5 (5 dimes or 5/10ths of a dollar)
And you must split this into groups of .25 The number of groups you can make is the answer to this division problem.
You may have to change the way your decimal is formed. For instance in the above problem you’d have to ungroup one of your tenths (dimes) into hundredths (pennies) in order to make groups of .25
In Language Arts we are going to be discussing figurative language, poetry, different genres of texts, and continue talking about logical thinking and arguments.
Tonight students have a little chart of statements. They should write down whether each statement is literal or figurative. If it is figurative, they should attempt to write the meaning of the statement.
Also, the magnet application has been extended until January 29th! If you haven’t already please take a look at my last post and take a look at the options available to you.
so, tl;dr
do some quick decimal review
identify some figurative statements
And as always, read!!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter