Great Monday!<\/p>\n
I hope everyone had a great Halloween, and that everyone ate entirely too much candy.<\/p>\n
We actually got a whole bunch of things accomplished today! \u00a0On a Monday even!<\/p>\n
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This morning we talked about powers of ten, and multiplying and dividing by tens, and all that jazz. \u00a0We went over our quiz from Friday, and I was happy to see that many students did very well. \u00a0We will keep touching on this stuff as we go through the year as understanding how our number system works is extremely important. \u00a0In case you are curious, here is the quiz they took on Friday:<\/p>\n
Decimals&Base10Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n We then looked very quickly at all of the things we have learned about the age of exploration and colonization in North America, and colonist conflict with the Native Americans.<\/p>\n Tonight students need to write two paragraphs for me, giving me as much information as they have remembered about what we have been discussing in language arts and history in the past few weeks:<\/p>\n paragraph 1: What was the age of exploration? The paragraph should start like this:<\/p>\n The age of exploration was….<\/p>\n paragraph 2: What was going on between the colonists and the Native Americans? Did they get along? Why or why not?<\/p>\n And this paragraph should start like this:<\/p>\n The colonists and the Native Americans…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This should give\u00a0me a pretty good idea of what students do and don’t ‘get’ so far.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In science we started talking about the cardiovascular (aka circulatory) system. \u00a0We learned how the heart pumps blood throughout our body. \u00a0The blood carries nutrients and oxygen to the cells of our body, and carries away the cell’s waste products. \u00a0Without our blood and our circulatory system, the cell’s of our bodies would waste away.<\/p>\n We also watched this quick little video (these things are very strange, but the students (and I as well) love them for some reason):<\/p>\n Circulatory System<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students also have a short selection to read and some questions to answer:<\/p>\n HumanHeart<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then took a long time and talked about decimals and fractions. \u00a0Students were tasked with making a number line that included divisions into tenths, as well as .25 (1\/4th), and .75 (3\/4ths). \u00a0In order to do this, students needed to measure the length of the paper they were provided, and then divide it into equal parts. \u00a0This COMPLETELY flummoxed some of our students, and it was very interesting to see them do a lot of trial and error to finally figure it out. \u00a0We took our time on this and eventually reached the conclusion that if our strip of paper is 60cm long, and we are splitting it into ten equal parts, each part should be 6 cm long. \u00a0Students eventually all finished their number lines, and they should use them tonight in order to help them on their math homework!<\/p>\n DecimalNumberLine1<\/a><\/p>\n This was also a good time to talk about productive struggle. \u00a0Even if we don’t know something immediately, it doesn’t mean we give up and stop. \u00a0We keep going, using everything we know and all of the resources available to us, in order to figure it out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Write me two paragraphs –<\/p>\n 1st paragraph answers – What was the age of exploration? Who (from what continent) was exploring? Why?<\/p>\n 2nd paragraph answers –\u00a0What was going on between the colonists and the Native Americans? Did they get along? Why or why not?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fill me in on the human heart:<\/p>\n HumanHeart<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Use the number line you created in class to help you answer these questions:<\/p>\n DecimalNumberLine1<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And as always, read read read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Great Monday! I hope everyone had a great Halloween, and that everyone ate entirely too much candy. We actually got a whole bunch of things accomplished today! \u00a0On a Monday even! This morning we talked about powers of ten, and multiplying and dividing by tens, and all that jazz. \u00a0We went over our quiz … Continue reading Homework Nov 2 (Mon)<\/span>
\nWho (from what continent) was exploring? Why?<\/p>\n