Uh-oh….Track-out-itis is beginning to show in some of our students already! We still have over a week left, however, and we won’t be slowing down until 2:55pm next Friday.
Math seems to be coming along well for many. We’ll be wrapping up multiplication soon and moving on to division with decimals. The students have already been doing division with manipulatives (money) in the boss/banker center, but we’ll be talking about doing it on an abstract level soon.
Tonight we will follow our normal routine and do 3 multiplication problems, all to be done with area models. After some prodding, I agreed to do one together as an example, so it is here too:
33.3 x 25
.14 x .63
0.003 x 0.41
example 0.003 x 0.41:
In Language Arts we talked some about the Mysterious Benedict Society, and the author’s choice of characters. In particular we talked about SQ, who is a character on Mr. Curtain’s (the bad guy’s) side. SQ is very silly, absent-minded, and generally likable. He also has been very good to the children so far, and treats them well. Why do we think the author included such a character in his book? Tonight the students should write a minimum half-page response to why they believe the author included this character in the book.
In Science we are trying to think more critically about ecosystems and the effects changes have on them. We looked at our pond ecosystem from our discussion yesterday, and thought about what might happen if we were to remove things from it. Would it have an effect on the other organisms in the ecosystem? Would it affect more than one organism? Would the ecosystem be able to survive? We started some of these questions but did not get time to finish them, so they will be homework tomorrow, instead of today.
In their place, we have a very simple ecosystem reading sheet, and some comprehension questions to go along with it.
so, tl;dr
3 math problems
33.3 x 25
.14 x .63
0.003 x 0.41
A minimum half-page response to the question: Why did the author of the Mysterious Benedict Society choose to include a character like SQ in his book?
Review Ecosystem sheet
Have a good day!
-Mr. Potter