Today we finally said goodbye to our plants. We took our planters out to the woods and emptied the soil so that it could be used by other plants. We also got to pull out the plants and look at their root systems, which was very interesting. Many of the students were surprised by how long the roots had gotten, and how well anchored they were. It was difficult pulling out many of the corn stalks.
In Math we continue to work on order of operations. Just remember, we do the most powerful operations first (working left to right) unless we are told otherwise!
In case you need them, here are yesterday’s notes: OOPNotes
We did many problems together today as a class, and here are some examples in case you need them as well: OOPSExamples
Tonight the students have a simple page of expressions to evaluate using order of operations. Included on this sheet are two problems that have answers, and the students must decide where to put parenthesis in the problems in order for them to evaluate to the given answer.
In Language Arts we got to have many individual conferences about the students’ Goldilocks stories. We went over their own personal rubric, and why they gave themselves the grading that they did. It can be very difficult to objectively grade yourself, or look at yourself with a critical eye in general. If we can get this down, I believe it will make us into better writers. If we can get the whole looking at yourself in general with a critical eye thing down, it might even make us into better human beings. (maybe!)
We got through about half of the students today, and we’ll get through the next half tomorrow I hope.
Tonight in language arts, students should first write a short paragraph comparing and contrasting the two passages they read yesterday (page 19-22 in motivation reading). I want this to be a compare and contrast of the TEXT STRUCTURES used, and NOT the content of the stories. This means I DON’T want to see something like “One was about Helen Keller, and the other was about Alexander Graham Bell”. What I want to see is something along the lines of “In the first passage the author used problem and solution to describe such and such, and in the second passage the author also used problem and solution to describe so and so….”
Students should also Answer the questions about the two passages on pages 23-26 in their motivation reading books. As always, I expect reasoning!
tl;dr:
one simple sheet of expressions
Pages 23-26 in motivation reading WITH REASONING and then a paragraph comparing the text structures of the txt structures of the two passages (NOT THE CONTENT!)
as always, read for 35 minutes
Have a good one!
-Mr. Potter