This ‘assign your own homework’ is going very well! Most students are assigning themselves things that they really need to work on.
Today we did lots of centers and small groups that students picked themselves based on what they wanted to work on. I’m very happy with how well the students are handling the freedom and the responsibility of choosing their own focus and what they need to do/study. Let’s hope it stays this way!
So students tonight should do the next two pages in their motivation math, and they picked another motivation reading passage to do as well. Their own assignments are here:
We did some more work in the computer lab with our poetry, and went over our entire ecosystems review packet. Students will soon be getting a review packet for forces and motion. They should also be looking at these review materials each night as they prepare for their EOGs.
speaking of which, if you didn’t see it yesterday:
Wed, June 10: Math EOG
Thurs, June 11: Language Arts EOG
Tues, June 16: Science EOG
Mon, June 29: 5th grade graduation ceremony
Today we started talking a bit about economics and how systems of trade/barter/cooperation work. We will be reading a short story called “Wally and the Walnuts” to help with this. We read the first two chapters together today and students took home a copy. I need these copies back, so I made it very clear that they need to treat these well. Tonight they have some questions to answer about the first two chapters:
So, tl;dr
Do YOUR homework!
Read chapters 1 and 2, and answer some questions about Wally and the Walnuts
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter