Today students received their assignment cards for next year. This is a yellow card that states what school students are assigned to for middle school. Please make sure you get a look at this.
“Dial it down on the sugar”
-Amy to some other students
We have been a bit hyper the last few days, but we’ve done a pretty good job toning it down, thanks to students like Amy!
Today we spent some time looking over idioms and text structures. I think students are doing fairly well with the idioms, but we have some work still to do with the text structures. We tried talking about how it’s important to keep going when our first try doesn’t work. Many of our students are simply picking a random text structure, plugging random things into their graphic organizer, and not checking to see if their choice makes sense. We will continue to harp on checking our work until Mr. Potter draws his final breath.
Tonight students have a short passage about soccer to read. They should then summarize the passage on the back, and pick ONE paragraph to analyze. They should determine the text structure used within that paragraph, and fill out a graphic organizer for it.
Speaking of checking our work…..
We had some good conversations about finding equivalent fractions. We have come SUCH a long way from the beginning of the year. We had to remind ourselves just how far we have come. Not a single person in the class needed help finding good forms of one today, and everyone is clear on just what equivalent means. We don’t change the number’s value, we just change its form!
Tonight students have some review work in their math coach. They should do pages 32 – 35. This is decimal review, and hopefully we are seeing a lot more connections between this decimal review and fractions these days.
so, tl;dr
Read this passage, write a summary. Then pick ONE paragraph and analyze its text structure.
Pages 32-35 in the math coach.
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter