Tomorrow is Class Picture day!!
Our class picture time is right after our recess time tomorrow…
I foresee our class picture being…interesting.
This morning we looked at two different depictions of the Boston Massacre. We looked at Paul Revere’s famous engraving, and we also looked at a painting done by a professional painter based on testimony given at the trial of the soldiers involved. The two depictions are quite different. We talked about how this shows two contrasting points of view over the same event.
Tonight students should look at these two depictions, and come up with 3 similarities, and 4 differences between them. Tomorrow we’ll look at these similarities and differences, and talk about what they might tell us about points of view surrounding the boston massacre. The pictures are on pages 286-287 of their social studies textbook.
As part of our small groups this morning, we also read some actual testimony from one of the troops from that day. His story was quite different from that depicted in Paul Revere’s engraving. Which of them is correct? Which of them shows the least bias? These are questions we will be exploring tomorrow.
Tonight students should also finish the last 4 vocab squares for the last 4 words in our vocab list!
In Math today we started talking about the Order of Operations. We talked about how the order in which we perform operations is guided by one main idea: We do the most powerful operations first, followed by the least powerful, unless we are explicitly told otherwise. The way we would be explicitly told otherwise is if parts of an equation were put into parenthesis.
We took some notes on this, and did quite a few examples. Tonight students have 4 division problems to solve using the standard algorithm as well as 4 problems to answer using their new-found knowledge of order of operations.
OrderOfOperationsNotes_Examples
so, tl;dr
Look at the two pictures of the Boston massacre in your social studies textbook (p 286-287) and come up with 3 similarities and 4 differences between them. Write these down.
Do the last 4 vocab squares from our vocab list
Answer these math problems. Each division problem should state what is going on for each line and should be checked with multiplication.
OrderOfOperationsNotes_Examples
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter