Tomorrow is Friday, which means….QUIZZES!!<\/p>\n
We will have a reading comprehension quiz tomorrow, a new quiz on food webs, a quiz on breaking down difficult multiplication problems into easily manageable parts, AND a multiplication fact quiz. \u00a0It will be a busy day!<\/p>\n
I highly recommend taking a look at your food web notes, and thinking about our discussion today about what happens when organisms are removed from ecosystems due to various reasons (natural disaster, human interference, etc). \u00a0For math, if the distributive property of multiplication over addition is still giving you problems I also recommend looking at our homework over the last few days, especially the examples.<\/p>\n
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We started our day with a little bit of writing time. \u00a0We have spent a little bit of time each day writing our stories, and tomorrow students will be turning in a rough draft.<\/p>\n
They have three parts to turn in with their draft (these should all be in their writing folder):<\/p>\n
character map \u00a0Blank char sheet<\/a><\/p>\n story map\u00a0StoryElements<\/a><\/p>\n setting write-up\u00a0Setting Organizer<\/a><\/p>\n And of course, their actual draft.<\/p>\n I’ll take a look at these over the weekend and we will start making our short storybooks next week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In science we had a long discussion about how organisms being removed from an ecosystem can dramatically impact the other organisms in the ecosystem. \u00a0We made a food web for the Eagles and Peregrine falcons we read about the other day, and then speculated on what likely happened to the small bird, snake, and rodent populations when the large birds went almost extinct.<\/p>\n It is important that we develop an idea that organisms within an ecosystem are connected, and have an affect on one another.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In math we did some math centers and small groups. \u00a0We will be incorporating small groups and math centers slowly as we make sure we are ready for it. \u00a0Giving students the responsibility of working independently is a big deal, and we will practice quite a bit more until we are doing this regularly.<\/p>\n Tonight students should finish their multiplication flash cards. \u00a0They should go from 3 x 1 all the way through 9 x 9.<\/p>\n They should then study these because we have a quiz on them tomorrow!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n a pretty easy night (if you’ve been working diligently up to this point)<\/p>\n Complete your short story rough draft and be sure you have your graphic organizers finished as well:<\/p>\n Blank char sheet<\/a><\/p>\n StoryElements<\/a><\/p>\n Setting Organizer<\/a><\/p>\n Tomorrow you will simply turn in your writing folder with all of this in it.<\/p>\n Finish your multiplication flash cards and study them (because we have a quiz tomorrow!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And as always, read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n P.S. Tomorrow is also our celebration for our gold medal! \u00a0Students may wear pajamas\/bring a stuffed animal if they would like \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow is Friday, which means….QUIZZES!! We will have a reading comprehension quiz tomorrow, a new quiz on food webs, a quiz on breaking down difficult multiplication problems into easily manageable parts, AND a multiplication fact quiz. \u00a0It will be a busy day! I highly recommend taking a look at your food web notes, and thinking … Continue reading Homework Aug 27 (Thurs)<\/span>