It’s Thursday!
That means tomorrow is QUIZ DAY!!
Tomorrow’s menu:
figurative language, text structures, and idioms quiz
forces and motion quiz
area and adding/subtracting/multiplying fractions quiz
HOORAY! It’s gonna be great!
Some quotes as I type this:
Rafiekha “THE HORROR, THE HORROR”
Cat: “Let’s watch Zootopia instead”
Nevaeh: “STAR WARS”
Mr. Potter: “You guys are weird”
We will also be doing some things with fractions, and making spruce. It will be fun 🙂
Today we got a good round of centers in, and talked about genres and sub-genres. Students already had a good idea about fiction and non-fiction, and we talked about how most works usually fall into multiple genres. We can have tragic comedies, realistic fiction, even horror comedies.
In science we looked again at forces and the forces affecting us constantly. We drew some pictures of systems of forces at work, and talked about how things might be different, say, on the moon. We wouldn’t have air resistance for one thing, and the force of gravity would be much less. Would airplanes or helicopters work on the moon?
Tonight students have a passage to read about asteroids. They should write a short summary of the passage, and then pick ONE paragraph and analyze its text structure.
We also went over finding the area of rectangles and triangles today. We only had 3 today that didn’t get the triangles on the first try. Tons of good, quick improvement!
Tonight students have pages 46 – 51 to do in their Math Coach books. These pages deal with the standard algorithm for multiplying multi-digit numbers. We did some practice in class but most students still need a lot of work on this. We are adept at using area models, so students should use area models to check their work here. Try to compare your area model to the standard algorithm as we did in class and use what you know about area models to make sense of the standard algorithm.
so, tl;dr
Read about asteroids, summarize, and analyze one paragraph’s text structure:
46 – 51 in Math Coach – use area models to check your work!
and read!
Spruce tomorrow!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter