And by homework, I mean for YOU, parents and guardians!
Many apologies, but tonight the students’ homework is to get their parent or guardian to do some homework.
This quarter we will be doing a project entitled “My Success”. Students will research a career, create a resume, go to a mock job interview, find a place to live, and create a budget. Essentially they will plan out a future in which they are successful. Success means many different things to different people, so we are starting by asking the student, and his/her family, what they define as success at adulthood. Please take about 10-15 minutes to fill this out tonight for your student, and have a talk with them about their future. The kids appear to be quite interested in this project, and I am sure they will want to share with you their dreams, and hear the thoughts of their family.
In math today we did a good round of centers, and talked about simplifying fractions in small groups. We also talked about adding and subtraction mixed numbers. Starting tomorrow students will have a variety of homework options they will need to choose from, based on what they still need work on.
In science we continued our talk about forces, friction, and gravity. We pretended we lived in a universe without friction, and talked about how difficult that would be. We then pretended that we lived in a universe without gravity, and how that would affect us. This involved lots of spinning around holding a piece of string (gravity) and letting it go. That would not end well for the Earth.
so, tl;dr
No homework for the kids, but homework for the adults!!
Please talk with your kids and respond to this question:
Kids should read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter