Monday! I love Mondays!
Unfortunately, this Monday I have a meeting I have to go to, so this will be very quick. My apologies!
In math we are working on the idea that when we are multiplying by fractions, we are actually doing quite a bit of dividing. This is because fractions themselves are all about dividing. Something like 1/3 x 9 asks us to take 1/3 of 9. This means we have to DIVIDE 9 into 3 equal parts, and take one of them.
We are using this understanding to help us realize that multiplication and division are the inverse of each other, and we can really change any division problem into a multiplication problem, and any multiplication problem into a division problem.
Tonight students have 3 division….or was it multiplication? problems to do. They should write out how each of these problems could be a division problem OR it could be a multiplication problem, and solve. As always we have some examples!
We also got a new vocabulary list with -ject words.
Tonight students should do vocab squares for the first 4 words:
This week we’ll take a really close look at A Bad Road for Cats. We will start by addressing this prompt in our reader’s response journals:
The main character Magda in “A Bad Road for Cats” seems to change from the beginning of the story to the end. Explain how she seems to have changed. Use evidence from the text to support your explanation.
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So some division/multiplication problems, 4 vocab squares, a reader’s response, and a reading log.
That’s not too much I don’t think.
Sorry for the quick post today,
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter