Well, today was a wonderful three hour early dismissal.

This means our day went as follows:

8:30 – 9:30 specials

9:30-10:30 really really fast math

10:30 – 11:15 super fast language arts and individual conferences about interims.

Lunch

Go home

 

I’m not bitter, really……

We are still working on equivalent fractions, especially when using them to add and subtract fractions.  We had a relatively poor showing on our math assessment from Friday on this, so we are revisiting this extremely important part of working with fractions.

Students have a simplifying fractions worksheet to do for tomorrow.  Unfortunately I have misplaced the file for this, so I can not link it here.  My apologies!

Students can also begin work on their ceed/cede/cess story.  I looked at the data from our vocabulary quizzes, and the week where the students wrote a story using all 10 of their words had much better results than the other weeks.  This makes sense, as it gave students more chance to use the words.  For this reason I am again assigning the students to write a short story using all ten of their vocabulary words.  This week it is ceed/cede/cess words.  This will be due WEDNESDAY, but students are encouraged to get a good start on it.

 

Grades/Interims:

Students took home their interim reports today.  If you have any questions about these, please let me know.

The grades are put into the website and I have a simple ‘publish draft’ button to press to make them available to you.  Unfortunately we still have 2 students who have yet to finish their latest tests.  For this reason I can’t quite press that ‘publish’ button as it would make all of the tests and answers available to all of the students.  As soon as these students finish their tests tomorrow I will make all of this information available and let you know here.

 

tldr;

One equivalent fractions worksheet

Start work on ceed/cede/cess story (due WEDNESDAY)

 

Have a good early release day, and see you tomorrow! (hopefully at the regular time!)