Fingers crossed that we get a full week of school!
So this morning we got quite a bit of work done in math. We talked a lot about breaking wholes down into fractional parts, and how that can be very helpful when subtracting. We talked about how it is very much like ungrouping numbers when subtracting whole numbers.
Tonight students have 5 simple word problems dealing with fractions. It should be fairly straight forward, and review.
In Language Arts we introduced and talked about a list of vocabulary words. We are going to be doing a list of words from latin and greek roots from this week forward. We discussed how a knowledge of latin and greek prefixes, suffixes, and roots can help us decode unfamiliar words. If we know that ped means foot, and centi means 100, the word centipede becomes much more understandable.
Tonight students should take each word and write a sentence using the word. There are ten total words, so I expect ten total sentences.
We then did some rotations, with some people getting on the computers to do research, some working in small groups, and some working on a short science selection dealing with rain. I also pulled quite a few students to do M-Class assessments. In Science tonight students should finish their reading and questions having to do with rain.
Also, we are GOING TO THE BOOK FAIR TOMORROW AFTERNOON! If you would like to give your child some money to purchase some books, we will be making a final trip there as a class tomorrow.
I will not be here tomorrow. I will be attending NCTIES, a conference on technology in education. (Why they would do this during the middle of the week I have no idea)
This means next update will likely come Friday.
P.S. some students and parents have asked me about class pictures. As of yet they have not announced the new dates. As soon as I know them, you will know them!
so, tl;dr
fraction word problems: WordProblemsMar4
10 sentences (one per word) from our vocab list: PedList
One science reading passage and questions: RainMar4
as always, read read read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter