Happy Tuesday!
I was quite impressed with the amount of students who brought their quiz sheet back signed today. I believe we had 20 out of 23. That’s fantastic!
This morning we talked about a poem I really enjoy, called “I Sing the Battle” by Harry Kemp. This is an interesting poem that is written as a sort of ‘call and response’. We talked about the meaning and the structure together, and some of the items that students might not be quite familiar with.
Tonight students have some questions to answer about this poem. On the back, they should expand upon number six especially, as I want to know why the poem makes them feel a certain way.
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We also read some more of “Love that Dog” by Sharon Creech. Definitely ask your student what they think of this book. It’s one of my favorites. So if they don’t like it, I will be extremely sad!
In Math today we talked at length about division, and what division really means and represents. The entire purpose of these discussions is NOT so students can simply do division. The purpose of these discussions and of our homework today is to get students thinking about division and what is going on with the process.
Tonight students have a few word problems to look at. Each problem can be answered with division problem. Students need to identify how that division problem is realized. Are we dividing 10 into 5 equal groups? OR are we dividing 10 into groups of 5? This may seem like a nitpicky thing to ask students, but again we want them really thinking about what is going on instead of just grabbing numbers and smashing them together, and hoping everything works out.
so, tl;dr
Answer some questions about “I Sing the Battle”
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Think about how some division problems should be done
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter