Jeez how is it already Thursday?
We had an extremely involved conversation this morning about how to prove that 6/8 is equal to .75
One of our problems this morning gave us two answers depending upon how we did it. One came up 6/8 and the other came up .75
So we took our our play money and found 6/8 of 1. We already know that .75 of 1 would be .75 of course, so if 6/8 of 1 was equal to .75, it would indeed be equivalent.
6/8 of 1 means we take our one and break it into 8 equal groups, and then we take 6 of those. When we broke our one down into 8 equal groups, we found each group to be equal to .125
We then added that up 6 times, and we figured out that 6/8 is indeed equal to .75
Tonight students have a few more multiplication with fractions problems to do. They should have many pages of examples at this point in their journals.
In Language Arts we read a really neat story called A Bad Road for Cats. This story is a good example of how a character can change throughout a story. We had some great conversations about character traits and how we can use evidence from the text to help explain our thinking. We managed to make a good chart using evidence from the text to describe Magda, the main character.
Tonight students should re-read this story, and fill in a story map detailing the story elements:
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In science we talked briefly about biomes and an upcoming project we have where we will build a travel brochure inviting people to visit a specific biome. Tonight students have some reading in their science textbook to do, and some questions to answer. They should read pages B60 – B84 in their science textbook. Then on a separate piece of paper, they should answer questions 1-6 on page B86, and questions 16-21 on page B87.
so, tl;dr
Use your math manipulatives to do some fraction multiplication problems:
Read story and fill out story map
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Read B60-B84 in science textbook. Answer questions 1-6 on page B86 and questions 16-21 on page B87.
And read! I told students the science reading can count as part of their reading log tonight.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter