Today was absolutely PACKED
And as such, we have a good amount of homework.
We continued our talks AT LENGTH about making sure that our answers make sense. We are still struggling with using logic and common sense reasoning in order to see that if we have a problem like “how much is .2kg of apples if 1kg of apples is $0.85?” that an answer like $1.70 makes no reasonable sense. We will continue to work on this until we all have that little voice in our head that at the end of each problem says “wait….does that make sense?”
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
The students have two pages of word problems to finish. The first should have a good dent taken out of it as we worked some together and in groups. They should always finish by checking their problems, and asking themselves “does that make sense?”.
In Language Arts we talked more about figurative language, and revisited the definitions of some of the more common types, as I was unimpressed with their homework from Monday night. Many students simply picked 3 random sentences from their books and turned them in as figurative language. This time they will be turning in five examples of figurative language from their current reading books, and they must must MUST label what each type of figurative language it is. If they are struggling, here are some of the most common:
simile:Comparing two things using like or as
“He was as big as a house”
metaphor: Comparing two things without using like/as
“The guard was a walking wall of muscle”
hyperbole: Exaggeration
“If I don’t eat something, I’m going to die!”
personification: giving a NON-HUMAN object human qualities.
“The wind walked through the trees”
alliteration: repeated use of sounds for poetic effect
“Silly sammy slick, sipped six sodas and got sick, sick, sick”
onomatopoeia: A word that imitates or describes a sound
“boom” “splash” “whack” “ping”
What they turn in should have five examples from their book with page numbers, and the type of figurative language used.
In science, we finished up a big chunk of review that we really ended up speeding through (we’ll have to go back to that), and the students have a vocabulary list to finish tonight.
I know it’s a lot, but we’re getting ready for middle school now!
tldr;
2 math worksheets
5 examples of figurative language from their books with page numbers and label the type of language
vocab list for science
Keep working! It’s the only way to learn!
See everyone tomorrow
-Mr. Potter