Oh my goodness was today a productive day!
We spent a fantastic morning really exploring some of the finer points and understandings involved in our list of math topics. The students have found that when they have to create a poster explaining their topic and showing how a math concept works, they need a real understanding of what is going on. It has been great seeing them have little ‘light-bulb’ moments as they work to grasp the underlying concepts and explain them.
Our review continues, and students should finish the third and fourth pages of their review problems packet tonight. These questions should be extremely easy, and I don’t foresee any problems with anyone.
In Language Arts we worked again on our research papers, and I’m also very pleased with how these are going. Students are realizing that they may not have quite enough notes to understand certain concepts to truly write a paper or a paragraph about a subtopic. They are then going back to the books and the internet to find information. It’s really neat to see them do this. They will have tomorrow and Thursday in class to finish up their rough drafts, and that *should* be enough time to get it all completed in class. The rough drafts will be due Friday.
As some science review and also some reading comprehension review, students have a passage and questions to complete tonight for homework. The passage deals with plants as producers, which should be old hat to the students at this point.
In Science we talked about the different ways we measure weather. It took a while for the students to realize that for all their talks of temperature, wind speed, and air pressure, they were forgetting one very important thing: humidity!
We also talked about the Fahrenheit vs. Celsius scales. Here’s hoping the U.S. catches up with the rest of the world someday on this!
so tldr;
two pages of problems in math review packet
one reading passage and questions
reading log as always!
Have a good day!
-Mr. Potter