Tomorrow is the last day to turn in pictures or picture money. (The multi-year pictures that were sent home two weeks ago)
Today was a bit of an odd day. We were extremely talkative. This isn’t too out of the ordinary, but no amount of reminders seemed to get us back down to Earth. We just couldn’t be trusted to follow directions. It was pretty bizarre honestly!
In Language Arts today we finished up work on our Kenning poems and also took a look at our vocab squares. Tonight students should FINISH their Kenning, and also finish the last five vocab squares.
They should be getting the definition, synonym, antonym, and sentences from a book, dictionary, thesaurus, the internet, or from parents. They should not be coming up with these on their own. The only thing that is their original thought is the picture they draw depicting the vocabulary word.
The next five words are:
disruption
erupt
interrupt
interruption
rupture
In Science we talked a good deal about clouds, and how clouds are named. We discovered there are three ‘main’ types of clouds:
stratus clouds: low clouds that form long layers
cumulus clouds: puffy, cartoon-like clouds that are also low
cirrus clouds: wispy, thin clouds that usually occur much higher in the atmosphere
We took some cotton balls and made our own clouds on paper today. We also somehow got into a discussion about how the sky is or is not blue. Yeah, that discussion was just as confusing as it sounds.
In Math we began discussing the standard algorithm for performing long division. Essentially the standard algorithm is simply a short cut for everything we have been doing with the banker and boss game. It isn’t Earth-shattering, but it will take a bit of practice for students to get down exactly what is going on without using the manipulatives.
Students got a print-out and they took some notes on it as well.
Tonight students have a single division problem to do. They should do this with their play money (with an adult!) and then also do it using the standard algorithm.
The problem they should do is:
56 ÷ 4
Again, they should do this two different ways – with play money, and then using the standard algorithm. Students should have their helper adult sign the bottom of their math page.
so, tl;dr
Tomorrow is quiz day, so be ready for them!
Finish vocab squares for entire vocab list
Finish Kenning poem
Do a single division problem TWO ways – with play money with an adult helper, and then also using the standard algorithm. Get adult to sign the paper please
And as always, read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter