Happy Monday!
A reminder: This Thursday, September 1st is our first APTT meeting. I would really love an opportunity to talk with you about our students and their progress. APTT gives us a great chance to look at data and talk about student achievement. I hope everyone is able to make it.
I love Mondays. So much to do, and a week full of possibilities. By Friday when we’ve only gotten half of what I planned to do finished I’m ready to have a breakdown, but Mondays are great!
So this morning we did some talk concerning decimals. We discussed how really ‘decimal’ numbers are just ways we can represent fractions in base 10. We talked about how to name decimal numbers, and different forms of decimal numbers.
For example, the idea that .3 = .30
If we thought of this using money, it’s like saying 3/10ths of a dollar (3 dimes) is equivalent to 30/100ths of a dollar (30 pennies).
Tonight students have some problems to work out using the distributive property of multiplication over addition. Later this week we will move on to some work with decimals.
We then read some more of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Things are starting to get interesting, and next chapter we’ll learn about what big dangerous thing is happening that Mr. Benedict is worried about…
This week we will be focusing quite a bit on character traits, and how authors define a character by their actions, thoughts, and feelings. Normally a character’s actions will tell us quite a bit about them. For instance in the book we are reading, Reynie and Constance display VERY different behavior. That behavior encourages us to like Reynie, and note quite so much Constance. In this way authors can actually attempt to control their readers’ emotions. Pretty awesome, or creepy, depending upon how you look at it.
In science, we are still talking about producers, consumers, decomposers, and all that jazz. Many of our seeds germinated over the weekend!! We will be transplanting them outside even sooner than I had thought, which is fantastic. Before you know it, we’ll be eating some vegetable that we grew ourselves.
Tonight students have some questions about energy flow within ecosystems to answer. They should use their science textbook to answer these questions. Each question they answer should be accompanied by the page in their textbook where they found that information.
so, tl;dr
Complete some multiplication using area models:
Answer some questions about energy flow, and make sure you find the information in your textbook, and mark the page number next to each answer on the sheet:
and read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter