Another wonderful day!
We got all the way down to negative 10 today! It was absolutely amazing. The students met every expectation we had for the day. I was very impressed.
In math we talked about putting together what we have done with adding and simplifying fractions. Some students are still having trouble with these things because they have yet to master their math facts.
Multiplication tables and quick math facts are essentially a 3rd grade topic, and if students have not completely mastered them at this point, they need to be doubling their efforts outside of the classroom to get this done. If a student can’t rattle off the answers to things like 8×9, 7×6, and 9×4 almost immediately, they will be ill prepared to deal with the majority of 5th grade topics, let alone middle school mathematics.
Tonight students have a sheet of fraction addition problems to do. They should simplify their answers, and make sure they find the simplest form. We did a few together as examples:
And a clean homework sheet:
In Language Arts we talked more about ‘If’, and finished it together. Tonight students should write the fourth stanza in their own words. It’s a good one!
In Science we talked briefly about weather patterns and meteorologists. Unfortunately we ran out of time because we were talking about the North Carolina Children’s book awards. Tonight students should read a short passage on weather patterns and answer some questions:
so, tl;dr
adding and simplifying fractions: AddingAndSimplifyingFeb12
Write the fourth stanza in your own words: If Passage
Read and answer some questions: WeatherMaps
as always, read for 35 minutes!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Also remember tomorrow is early release!!
Next week is looking really dicey….Snow and Ice Monday night 🙁