Our first week back is going very well!
This morning we got back into our normal schedule, and actually started our day with math.
In the upcoming month we will go through essentially everything we have done in math up until this point. We will fill in a few of our gaps, and we will also learn some of the standard algorithms for operations. Today we talked a good deal about the standard algorithm for multiplying multi-digit numbers, and how we’ve been doing the same thing all along with our area model, but now we will use a short-cut.
Tonight students should do 8 multi-digit multiplication problems. They should do these in three separate ways for each problem: area model, partial products, and the standard algorithm. We took some notes today and did three examples. Their homework should look EXACTLY like these examples:
These are their problems:
1. 15 x 8
2. 26 x 3
3. 88 x 7
4. 45 x 32
5. 68 x 25
6. 75 x 22
7. 145 x 56
8. 257 x 46
In language arts we talked a good deal about poems, and did some “see, think, wonder” readers responses, where we said what we saw in our mind when we read the poems, what we thought about, and what we wondered about.
The poems from yesterday were mostly well done, but we had a problem with focus for some of them. So tonight, students should write a three stanza poem, where they write their own see, think, wonder BEFORE they write their poem. They should write down:
I want the reader to see……
I want the reader to think about….
I want the reader to wonder about/feel …….
This should hopefully give them some focus for their poem.
We also read and analyzed this together:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
I love this poem, and if you get a chance tonight, ask your student what they thought/felt about it.
Finally, we spent some time in the computer lab reading some science books on Big Universe. If you haven’t taken a look at this website, it’s a neat little online library, that students also have access to at home.
their log-in is wcp######, where ###### is their lunch number
their password is their lunch number
the group name is wcpss
Today they read some books on gravity, and took an on-line quiz about it. Our average was an 80%, which is not too shabby.
so, tl;dr
write a 3 stanza poem, with a real topic/focus
establish this by first answering (and writing down) these:
What do I want my reader to see?
What do I want my reader to think?
What do I want my reader to wonder/feel?
Do the following 8 multiplication problems in 3 ways: area model, partial products, and standard algorithm. Do them EXACTLY as we did them in our notes today: StandardMultAlgorithmNotes
1. 15 x 8
2. 26 x 3
3. 88 x 7
4. 45 x 32
5. 68 x 25
6. 75 x 22
7. 145 x 56
8. 257 x 46
As always, read read read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter