Tomorrow is our field trip to East Wake Middle School! We will get a tour of the school and students will be able to see what a day in their lives will look like next year. I’m looking forward to seeing what they learn from their trip, and what their thoughts will be afterwards.
Long time no update!
I apologize for my lack of updates last week. I was away at a training sponsored by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. I went to create an update my first night, and realized that I had left all of my files with the substitute. Pretty embarrassing.
This morning I came in and read an absolutely glowing review from the substitute. Aside from a bit of talking (this is a VERY talkative group), she had great things to say about students doing what they were supposed to and staying on task.
This morning we spent a good amount of time talking about fractions, and especially about equivalent fractions. We discussed the multiplicative identity property, which states that we can multiply anything by 1, and still have our original value. We can use this property to our advantage for finding equivalent fractions.
For example I can take any fraction, and multiply it by a form of one. The answer must be an equivalent fraction:
1/2 * 2/2 = 2/4
1/2 = 2/4
3/5 * 4/4 = 12/20
3/5 = 12/20
We took some notes on this as well:
We then finished up our center rotations from last week that we didn’t get to. The students are doing a much better job working independently at centers. I was quite impressed. Tonight students have a deceptively large amount of work, but if they were on task last week during center times, they should just be putting the finishing touches on last week’s work:
First, fill in this map with the names of the 13 original colonies. Part of this assignment is finding a map in their social studies book or finding this information in another reference.
All of these colonies eventually became states. Each state has an abbreviation. For example, North Carolina is NC. They should put the abbreviation for each state on this map as well.
Next, students have some reading to do and a worksheet on clouds to finish:
They also have two worksheets on idioms, as well as nouns and proper nouns, to finish:
common-and-proper-nouns-and-capitalization-worksheet
Finally, they have some writing prompts. They should pick *one* of these, and respond:
At the end of the day we had some time in the computer lab to finish up our visual poems. These are starting to look quite good. Students did a great job while I was gone figuring out how to use some of the tools in a word processor, and their poems have obviously taken them some time.
so, tl;dr
Finish these 5 centers from last week:
Cloud worksheet
Label this map with the names of the colonies, and the state abbreviations:
Figurative Language – Idioms:
Grammar – capitalization:
common-and-proper-nouns-and-capitalization-worksheet
Write!
And of course, read read read
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter