A full day of school! Hoorays!!
As a reminder, we do have school this Saturday, January 30th. It is a half day makeup for Monday. The buses will run at the normal time to pick up students. School will run until 12:00. There will be no lunch or recess, it is simply instructional time.
So we started off this morning talking more about figurative language. Specifically we talked about similes and metaphors. We looked at a bunch of examples and found that both of these types of figurative language equate two different things that share a common characteristic. The difference is that similes use ‘like’ or ‘as’, and metaphors do not. We agreed this was a fairly simple and easy to remember distinction.
Tonight students have a list of sentences that use figurative language. They should identify if each sentence is an example of a simile or a metaphor.
On the opposite side is a list of simple sentences. Students should take each sentence and practice making them a bit more interesting by re-writing them as a simile.
In Science we talked about the weather and the different ways in which we could measure the weather. Saying things like “it’s hot” or “it’s cold” are relative, because what you think is cold might be just right for me. We decided we would need to have precise measurements to truly be able to measure and record the state of the atmosphere.
Tonight students have a short passage to re-read (we read it together once) and some questions to answer. As always, I expect reasoning!!
Finally we reviewed some adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with decimals. Adding, subtracting, and multiplying should be no problem at this point. As for the dividing, I want them to use the play money and divide by making groups as we have done in class, and as we did last night on our homework.
Tonight students have two new sets of decimals to do all of the operations on.
so, tl;dr
Tell me if it’s a metaphor or a simile, and write some similes of your own:
Answer some questions about the weather:
Do some operations with decimals (use your play money for the division!)
And as always, read!!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter