Fun Run in just 2 days!<\/p>\n
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If you haven’t yet, please go to www.funrun.com and register. \u00a0We have our actual Fun Run on Thursday!<\/p>\n
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This morning we spent a good amount of time on our writing and doing individual writing conferences. \u00a0A good friend of mine, Ms. Hertling, came in to help us. \u00a0Ms. Hertling is an accomplished teacher, who has taught around the globe. \u00a0She spent the bulk of her time teaching English at the high school level. \u00a0 She has agreed in her retirement to come in and help us with a few things this school year. \u00a0She will be here often on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. \u00a0She was very happy to read the students’ writing, and had tons of great things to say.<\/p>\n
We got about half of our writing conferences done, and we’ll try to get the rest done tomorrow and Thursday.<\/p>\n
We also talked about writing summaries and finding the main idea of a text. \u00a0We are often asking “who did what?” “When?” “where?” and “why?” in order to figure out the main idea or to summarize a text.<\/p>\n
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To practice thinking about these things, students tonight have a short article to read and summarize. \u00a0There are also some questions that go with the article. \u00a0They should answer these with reasoning, explaining their answers.<\/p>\n
Device May Help Blind People See Passage<\/a><\/p>\n DeviceQuestions<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then talked again about finding information in texts. \u00a0We looked at our biome paper from yesterday and discussed what kind of keywords we looked at in order to find specific information in the index\/glossary of our science textbooks. \u00a0The students did a pretty good job with this, and I was happy with their ability to pick out keywords from questions. \u00a0These are very important skills to have as they do research and are responsible for finding specific information on their own.<\/p>\n Tonight students should finish the back of the sheet. \u00a0They should include page numbers where they found the information for each question.<\/p>\n BiomeReview2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then again talked briefly about our area models and multiplying multi digit numbers by breaking them down into smaller parts. \u00a0Tonight students have four problems to do in this manner. \u00a0Again, please refrain from talking with students about the standard algorithm for multiplying multi-digit numbers. \u00a0We are not interested in that at this point. \u00a0We are interested in getting students familiar with how multiplication is distributed across addition, and understanding how we break difficult problems down into small ones. \u00a0The standard algorithm will come later, and it will make much more sense because of the work we have already done.<\/p>\n Sep1DPOMOA<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally we spent some time in the computer lab working on our biome brochures. \u00a0We talked about the different things we can do in word with text boxes, fonts, and all of the different options word processing software offers. \u00a0For many students this is overwhelming, but as we do more and more projects on the computers, they will become accustomed to it, and we will have less students erasing all of their work by accident (Which is something that happened today!).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Summarize this article, and answer the questions with reasoning:<\/p>\n Device May Help Blind People See Passage<\/a><\/p>\n DeviceQuestions<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Answer the questions on this sheet using your science textbook, and include the page numbers where you got the information:<\/p>\n BiomeReview2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do these problems using area models:<\/p>\n Sep1DPOMOA<\/a><\/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. I have an appointment tomorrow, so I will be absent from school. \u00a0We will have a substitute, Mrs. Alford. \u00a0She is a retired teacher from Lockhart (who used to teach 5th grade even). \u00a0The students are in good hands, and I know I will come back and hear good things from Mrs. Alford.<\/p>\n See you Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fun Run in just 2 days! If you haven’t yet, please go to www.funrun.com and register. \u00a0We have our actual Fun Run on Thursday! This morning we spent a good amount of time on our writing and doing individual writing conferences. \u00a0A good friend of mine, Ms. Hertling, came in to help us. … Continue reading Homework Sep 1 (Tues)<\/span>