Edit: Today the students decided they would like to have another electronics game and gum day to celebrate us earning another jewel. Since tomorrow’s forecast called for rain, we will be doing it tomorrow! Students may bring in an electronic device to play some games on, and gum to chew, during our lunch and recess time. Should be fun!
I am looking forward to another full week of school!
Today we started talking about multiplying fractions, and what that would look like as a word problem/in real life.
We talked about how if it was 3 miles around a lake, and we walked around it 5 times, the total amount we walked would be 3 x 5 = 15 miles.
If the distance was 3/4 of a mile and we walked around it 5 times, the total amount walked would be 3/4 x 5, or 15/4 miles.
If the distance was 3/4 of a mile and we walked around it 1/5 of a time, the total walked would be 3/4 x 1/5, or 3/20 of a mile.
Just because we are doing something less than once, does not mean that we are not multiplying. This can be very confusing for students to start, but we will be exploring this and doing much more practice with it.
Tonight students have a set of fraction word problems to do. They should model these with bar models. The first two problems we did together as practice:
In Language Arts we took a VERY large chunk of time and I finished the Mysterious Benedict Society #2 as I had promised the children I would. It’s a great series of books, and I hope they are interested enough to find and read the 3rd one on their own.
We also took a look back at similes and metaphors. Some of us were making mistakes, thinking that only similes compared things. In fact both of these kinds of figurative language compare things. Similes do it with like or as, and metaphors do it without.
Tonight students have one last batch of practice before a quick quiz on this tomorrow:
Students also received a new list of vocabulary words, dealing with the root spec:
Inspect
Speculate
Perspective
Spectacle
Introspection
Spectator
circumspect
retrospective
spectacles
respect
Tonight students should use each of these words correctly in a sentence. They also received a vocabulary sort that they should have cut out and can use for practicing meanings.
And before you knew it, we were out of time 🙁
so, tl;dr:
Fraction multiplication word problems: FractionWordProblemsMarch9
Simile or metaphor? MetaphorOrSimile
One sentence per vocabulary word
as always, read for 35 minutes!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
P.S. Picture day has been rescheduled to the 24th of March. I’ll be sending out some more information about this tomorrow.