Well three posts in a row that are Mondays……
Let’s hope I get to post again on a Tuesday!
We are just ridiculously behind at this point. We are three weeks from Case 21….which means we have lost around 20% of our instructional time this quarter. Not sure what we’re going to do, but it’s going to be a busy three weeks!
Today we talked much more about fractions, subtraction with fractions, and equivalent fractions. We also talked about the link between division and fractions. If we had something like 2 cakes to split among 4 people, each person gets 2/4 of a cake. We can visualize this by thinking we would cut the first cake into 4 pieces, and give each person a piece, and then do the same for the second cake. So in total, they would get 2/4 of a cake. We then talked about what if there were 3 cakes? 4 cakes? 5 cakes? We noticed this pattern:
2 ÷ 4 = 2/4
3 ÷ 4 = 3/4
4 ÷ 4 = 4/4
5 ÷ 5 = 5/4
Neat, right?
Tonight students have some more subtraction problems to work on:
In Language Arts we began our discussion of figurative language. We came up with this awesome definition together:
Figurative language is literally language that you don’t take literally.
I love it.
Tonight students have two sheets dealing with similes and metaphors to work on. As we deal more and more with figurative language, we will work on incorporating more of it into our writing.
Next we went and previewed the book fair! If you didn’t know (and how would you seeing how I would have announced it last week!), we are having a scholastic book fair at Lockhart this week. Students wrote down a list of books they would like. We will be going in to purchase as a class on Wednesday but if students bring in money on another day, that would be fine.
We spent some time today talking about references and bibliographies for our weather research paper. Students also got a hand-out for them to keep track of the books/websites/articles they use when answering their questions:
Students also have another DAZE passage dealing with rain. They should read through the passage, and circle the word that works in each sentence.
We also finally got around to getting a new Children’s book awards book! It’s what they should be reading tonight!
so, tl;dr
one page of subtraction problems: FractionSubtractionMar3
similes and metaphors: SimilesMetaphorsMar3
DAZE passage dealing with rain: RainDazeMar3
as always, read for 35 minutes!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter