13 days remaining until EOGs!
We did a ton of small group work this morning, trying to remember what fractions are and how they work. From this point on, we are really buckling down and reviewing the entire year’s worth of content. This week we will touch on everything really, and find out where we still have gaps.
The students have two worksheets to do tonight. One is a simple list of concepts they should understand and equation problems for each concept. The other is a worksheet that is STRANGELY SIMILAR to the first worksheet, and just might have the same exact concepts expressed as word problems. Odds that anyone comes in tomorrow having noticed this? I’m hoping high!
In Language Arts we continued to talk about figurative language, and we got to talk about the expression “reading between the lines”. See if you can use that one in a conversation with your student sometime!
We also looked at our letters to Mr. Zoller about field trips, and did some peer and teacher review. We are focusing most on “did what I write make sense?” just like in math!
Tonight students should finish up their revision and write their final letter to Mr. Zoller. I’m hoping I can bundle these up and send them his way.
In Science, we talked about the water cycle (this should be essentially 3 years old review at this point) and we will start talking about how this influences the weather. We also got to talk about sublimation (when something goes straight from solid to gas, without changing into a liquid). This blew some of our students’ minds, as they thought this was impossible. We got to watch some neat clips about dry ice, and even talk about microwaves! We unfortunately didn’t get to the selection that included our science homework, so we will finish that up tomorrow.
So, the tldr;
two math worksheets
Write their final letter to Mr. Zoller
Also a reminder! The meeting to plan the reception (graduation) ceremony for our 5th graders is this Thursday, the 29th of May. We will have the meeting in room 137 starting at 5:30 pm. If you missed any of the notes, here they are:
Hope to see you there, and have a great Tuesday!
-Mr. Potter