Where did the week go?! Having a holiday on Tuesday can totally throw you for a loop.
The students have been absolutely phenomenal this week. This morning they were 100% on task during morning work, and only talked to help each other with the morning problem. We’ve ended almost every day at negative five, and we have cut our calling out in half at least. Just great stuff.
This morning we went over yesterday’s homework and it appears most students are getting it, and we’re clearing up our general division misconceptions or misunderstandings. Tonight students have four new problems to do:
365.3 ÷ 0.4
251.5 ÷ 0.001
467.4 ÷ 1.5
111.111 ÷ 2
Some of these might require that they multiply both dividend and divisor by some factor of ten, and some they might be able to do without doing this. It is up to them to figure out which works best.
In Language Arts we talked a good bit about bubble maps, and picking main ideas that we can support with details from the text. Tonight students have a passage that we did a bubble map for together. There are some questions also associated with this passage.
Students then got to take a Time for Kids of their choice. They should pick one of the articles in the Time for Kids (one of the page long ones!) and create a bubble-map for it.
Next we did some work on their Goldilocks stories. Many got a chance to talk with Mrs. Woodlief about them. She was very impressed with the writers in our class!
Finally, we made a big long list of all of our data points for our plants. Most students finished this, and can begin their graphing tomorrow. This took a LOT longer than I thought it would!
so, tl;dr
4 division problems
365.3 ÷ 0.4
251.5 ÷ 0.001
467.4 ÷ 1.5
111.111 ÷ 2
One set of reading questions and one Time for Kids bubble map!
as always, read for 30 minutes
ALSO tomorrow we are having pajama and a movie day. Students may come to school in their pajamas if they like, and we are going to watch a short little animated film during lunch/recess and maybe have some popcorn.
Have a good one!
-Mr. Potter