Yesterday….just…..*sigh*

I will stop making jokes about how many days we get to go to school.  It is obviously bad luck.

 

So, we are in full review swing.  Today we reviewed converting fractions, and the students took three full pages of notes.  I could hear their poor hands cramping from my position at the SmartBoard.  There were only a smattering of complaints however.  It is a real group of troopers.

 

We then talked briefly about division involving fractions, and that the inverse of a number is the number of times that the number goes into one.  This will be instrumental in understanding the basic algorithm for division involving fractions.

For homework, students have more review in their motivation math: pages 69 and 70.

 

In language arts we worked to finish up our poems.  For the most part students finished typing their animal poems and added a picture of their chosen animal.  They then printed them out and tomorrow we’ll put them on our wall.

 

Yesterday I “acquired” quite a few paint sample cards from the local home improvement store, and students are going to write their color poems on these.  I shamelessly stole this idea from Mrs. Stample, who shamelessly stole it from the internet.  This is what teachers do, people.

 

For homework in Language arts, students should write some short responses to questions on page 115 of their motivation reading book.

In science, we had a Mad Scientist guest speaker do a presentation for the entire school.  There were explosions, fires, and other things that I would be fired for doing in the classroom.  The students seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.

ALSO please remember that the SCIENCE FAIR IS TOMORROW.  Students were supposed to turn in their projects today, but tomorrow early morning will be fine as well.  The judging will begin at 8:30 am in the gym.  Parents and family, we hope to see you tomorrow night for science night!  We will have activities set up throughout the school and you can come in for pizza if you signed up for it, and take a look at all of the neat projects students have been involved with these past few weeks.

If you do come, please feel free to stop by and say hi!

tldr;

two review math pages: page 69 and 70 in motivation math

one short answer page: page 115 in motivation reading

Finish up and bring in your science project if you haven’t already!

 

See everyone tomorrow,

-Mr. Potter