This morning we had some representatives from SunTrust come out and talk to the students about saving. When we start working on our budgets next week, I’m hoping the students will remember today’s talk!
This morning we talked again about making inferences. I’m happy to say many of the students are becoming quite adept at this. What we need to work on next is being able to make inferences without being asked specifically. We need to form a habit of it.
Tonight students have some more passages to read and some inferences to make.
They also have some figurative language to figure out.
In science today we did some more work with friction. We pulled our social studies books across all kinds of surfaces: our desks, our carpet, the hallway, even outside on the sidewalk. We used some rubber bands and measured how far the rubber bands stretched before the book started to move. We then took all of our data and put it up on the Smartboard. Tonight students should look at their data and respond to this:
Order the surfaces from most to least friction. How do you know this?
In math we only had time today to talk do an example and talk again about how we should work through word problems. Continue to ask yourselves these questions:
What is the question asking?
What do I know?
How do I answer the question given what I know?
We didn’t have time to copy down our homework word problems, so the kids lucked out!
so, tl;dr
a lite load tonight:
Make some inferences
identify some figurative language
Order the surfaces from most to least friction, and explain how you figured that out.
and read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter