Homework Aug 6 (Wed)

There’s not enough time in the day!

So today we didn’t even GET to science, we were so wrapped up in other stuff.  We might start our day with science tomorrow to make sure we get to it.

In Math, we moved on to our next step: multiplying some two and three digit numbers.  We continued to use our visual aids and the D.P.o.M.o.A.  After doing this together a few times, it seems like the majority of the class is grasping these concepts quite well.

Tonight the students have 10 (TEN!) problems to do.  As always we have done one together, and the example is right here:

Aug6Example

The problems to be done are:

25 x 62                                          145 x 14

312 x 19                                        228 x 22

481 x 34                                        362 x 44

438 x 50                                        300 x 57

888 x 42                                         213 x 124

These should be answered in the same fashion as the example.

We also made multiplication charts together.  We have quite a few students who still need a good deal of work on math facts.  Because of this, many students will be focusing on those in math centers starting next week.

In language Arts, we spent a good amount of time going over our answers for our selection on the Arctic Tundra.  We spent most of that time focused on our reasoning for those answers.  Please note that whenever we have these kinds of assignments in Language Arts, every multiple choice answer must be accompanied by at minimum a one sentence explanation for their choice.  Some of us learned that “because that’s the answer” is not quite the level of reasoning that we are looking for……

Tonight, the students should do pages 143 and 144 in their motivation reading book.  These are some short response questions to the Arctic Tundra selection.

We finished up our day with some DEAR time, as we had skipped that the last two days.

There really needs to be a few more hours in the day.  Or at least at school.  Make sure you send your congressman/woman a letter about that one please.

 

so, tl;dr

10 math problems

25 x 62                                          145 x 14

312 x 19                                        228 x 22

481 x 34                                        362 x 44

438 x 50                                        300 x 57

888 x 42                                         213 x 124

example:

 

Pages 143-144 in the motivation reading book

As always, 35 minutes of reading.  Please sign the reading log, and not the agenda.

 

Have a good one!

 

-Mr. Potter