Today was another very good day.  It is honestly worrying me how great the students are being.  Our calling out is down, our lines are fantastic, and our work output is up!

 

In math, we talked more about how we would split different amounts of money up among people.  We came up with this procedure yesterday:

1. Hand out ___ tens to each person.
2. We have ____ tens leftover.
3. Turn our ___ leftover tens into ____ ones.
4. We now have ____ ones.
5. Hand out ____ ones to each person.

In our problems today we ran into the situation when we had a dollar as a remainder.  The students were asked to come up with ideas about how they would split a dollar among themselves.  They came up with the idea of breaking our dollar down even more into dimes.

6. We have ____ one left over.
7. Turn our ____ one into ____ dimes.
8. We now have ____ dimes.
9. Hand out ____ dimes to each person.

We did a few problems as groups using this procedure, and the students were getting much better with it.

 

For homework in math, they have to do these three problems USING THE PROCEDURE AND WRITING THE SENTENCES.

Divide $3.00 among two people

Divide $5.20 among four people

Divide $12.80 among 8 people

 

We then spent a good portion of the rest of the day reviewing our Case 21 math assessment.  The students absolutely blew this one out of the water honestly.  Our kids have been working their tails off on this stuff, and it showed in their scores.

We only got through about 3/4ths of the test, however, so we will be continuing with that tomorrow.

In Language Arts, the students are to write a story using all 10 of their vocabulary words.  This is not due tomorrow, but instead due Saturday.  That is the reminder that there is school Saturday!

 

so, tldr;

In math, three problems using the procedure and writing the sentences we came up with as a class.

 

In Language Arts, writing a story using the vocabulary words.  This is not due until SATURDAY!

 

 

Also, a quick note on grades:

Report cards will go home next Monday in the Monday Folders.

I must appologize about the grades from 3rd quarter not being up in the forums.  I had finally gotten that all figured out and into the forums mid-trackout, however my wife then figured out when fiddling with the site that you could play with the web addresses, and actually see everyone’s tests, not just your own.  If you managed to see this the day that I uploaded them, you got to see all of the grades, but then I pulled it all down immediately after my wife figured that out.  I am in the process of trying to figure out how to make those scans of student work secure at the moment.  This is something fairly new to me as I have not done much with these types of tools before.  I apologize for this taking so long.

 

For fourth quarter, we are just going to put numerical grades up in the forums, as well as daily updates on homework.  If you go to your child’s own sub-forum now, you can see if they turned in their homework and reading log today.  If they have not, there is a post from them explaining that.  This will be a daily update that you can check.

As we get grades I will be putting those into that forum as well, and hopefully scans of at minimum major assessments as soon as I figure out the security issue on that.

 

I apologize for the delay, and I appreciate your understanding as I figure things out.

 

Have a good one, and see everyone tomorrow!

 

-Mr. Potter