This morning was a tad disappointing.
Approximately half of the students came in today without their research rough draft paragraphs completed. When we are so strapped for time, not getting these things done is really unforgivable. It is IMPERATIVE that students get caught up tonight on this paper. The rough draft in its entirety is due on Friday, and the final paper is due next week on Friday.
In Math we finally got back to our Center Rotations. Since we are doing review and getting ready for our end of quarter benchmark, we are doing Centers a tad differently. Each center has the problems to be done as well as the answers and walk-throughs on the back so students can check their work themselves after each center. This way they can hopefully find their mistakes and realize what they are proficient with, and what they still have to work on.
Tonight students have four MULTI STEP word problems to do. These are NOT simply grab the numbers and perform an operation problems. If students do not slow down, think about what the question is asking, and in many cases draw a model, it will be very difficult to get the answers to these.
In Language Arts we kept working on our papers, and also finally took our vocab test from last week. Tonight students NEED to get their intro and 3 main body paragraphs written out.
In Science we finally had a good talk about transfer of energy. We talked about what kinds of things are good conductors of heat, and what are poor conductors (or insulators). Tonight students should finish the back of the sheet they took home yesterday.
so, tl;dr
Multi step word problems: Word Problems March 18
Conduction, Convection, or Radiation? Heat_Transfer
Intro and MAIN BODY PARAGRAPHS!!! for weather research paper
as always, read! Some are still not finished with their second NCCBA book. This means they will have less than a week to finish their third book. Not good.
read!
And have a good one,
-Mr. Potter