Tomorrow is early release. Please know that school will end at 12:30.
We are also having our first celebration tomorrow. The students earned 75 paws, which got us our first medal. For our celebration students decided we would watch a short film, followed by some board game time. All the while we will be chewing gum. Make sure you get all of your homework finished, as students who have outstanding homework will instead spend celebration time working on that.
This morning we did more work with decimals and multiplying simple fractions by whole numbers. We continued discussing how we can take numbers like 3.4 and think of it as 3 and 4/10 or 3 + 4 x 1/10 in order to solve different problems.
Tonight students have a few more equivalencies to write. I wonder if tomorrows quiz is going to look JUST like this…
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We continued our talk about explorers (or should we call them exploiters?) today. It’s interesting to get students’ ideas about these individuals. Student images of them are usually pretty positive, and often people see their contributions to the modern day as good things. However rarely were they motivated by a love of humanity or knowledge. When we get down to it, many of these individuals weren’t exactly the best of people.
Tonight students should finish the questions that go along with our reading.
In science we took a good look at our gardens. A few of our seeds have not yet germinated. This means we will replant some of them tomorrow. We also started measuring. We decided that we can use string to measure the plants from soil to tip of stem.
Finally we spent a good amount of time today organizing our math manipulatives. They have turned into a great big pile of messes, and we sorted and organized them today. It’s funny how much the students enjoyed this. I’m fairly certain none of them go home excited about cleaning and organizing their room, or folding their clothes. However when it comes to sorting play money into bins or putting pop cubes in bags, they are having the time of their lives.
so, tl;dr
Finish some math equivalencies:
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Finish the questions that go with our reading:
And as always, read and get your reading log signed!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter