Very sorry about no update yesterday. I had a wonderful day dealing with a kidney stone. Every trip to the bathroom is going to be an adventure for a little bit.
Tomorrow is Friday! This means quizzes! it also means we have our multiplication/jewel celebration. Students will get to have some goodies based on how well they have done on their multiplication fact quizzes.
This morning we started talking about the revolutionary war and the colonies’ road to independence. This will bring us back eventually to talking about government and how the U.S. came by its current system.
We had to have quite a few side-conversations where we talked about how taxes are used and why governments need to tax their citizens in order to provide public services. Most students didn’t know how schools, or roads, or the government was paid for. It’s paid for by everybody!
Tonight students have a short reading about the causes leading up to the revolutionary war and some questions to answer about them. As always, I expect reasoning.
In science we introduced the idea of wind patterns and how they can drive our understanding of how weather functions. Tomorrow our quiz is on this, mixed with review from last week’s talk about clouds. Make sure you know this stuff!
Tonight students have another reading on air patterns and some questions to answer. Again – REASONING!
Finally we did a little bit of review of the standard algorithm for division. Students have another short set of problems to do tonight using the standard algorithm. They should also check each problem using multiplication. Tomorrow’s quiz is on this…
8 ÷ 5 =
6 ÷ 4 =
26 ÷ 5 =
79 ÷ 4 =
Finally we had students form Ms. Sweet’s 3rd grade class visit us. They had been working on inferencing and made little poems that were quite similar to our kennings. We got into pairs and shared our poems and tried to guess each other’s topics. It was a lot of fun, and there was a good bit of head-scratching going on.
so, tl;dr
Revolutionary war questions
Air pattern questions
division using standard algorithm and CHECKED WITH MULTIPLICATION
8 ÷ 5 =
6 ÷ 4 =
26 ÷ 5 =
79 ÷ 4 =
and as always, read!
Quizzes tomorrow, so make sure you know your stuff, including your vocab.
Also jewel/multiplication celebration tomorrow, so make sure all of your homework is done so you can participate!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter