Welcome back!<\/p>\n
A 3 hour delay means we had approximately 90 minutes of class-time today. \u00a0booooooooos<\/p>\n
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that we do not have a repeat of last year’s snowfall.<\/p>\n
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Even though we had just a bit of time today we did use that time to do some quick review of math and then talk about what we would be doing this quarter in language arts.<\/p>\n
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In math this quarter, we will be continuing our work with decimals and fractions. \u00a0We will also start working on perimeter, area, and volume.<\/p>\n
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Tonight students have a quick set of decimal review problems to do. \u00a0As always there is an example!<\/p>\n
For the division problem, they have brought home their bags of money. \u00a0They should take the decimal amount out as money, and then perform the division by splitting it into groups of the given amount.<\/p>\n
For example in the first problem we did .5 divided by .25<\/p>\n
This questions asks how many .25 are in .5<\/p>\n
So you take out .5 (5 dimes or 5\/10ths of a dollar)<\/p>\n
And you must split this into groups of .25 \u00a0The number of groups you can make is the answer to this division problem.<\/p>\n
You may have to change the way your decimal is formed. \u00a0For instance in the above problem you’d have to ungroup one of your tenths (dimes) into hundredths (pennies) in order to make groups of .25<\/p>\n
Math Jan 26<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we are going to be discussing figurative language, poetry, different genres of texts, and continue talking about logical thinking and arguments.<\/p>\n Tonight students have a little chart of statements. \u00a0They should write down whether each statement is literal or figurative. \u00a0If it is figurative, they should attempt to write the meaning of the statement.<\/p>\n Fig Language Jan 26<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also, the magnet application has been extended until January 29th! \u00a0If you haven’t already please take a look at my last post and take a look at the options available to you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n do some quick decimal review<\/p>\n Math Jan 26<\/a><\/p>\n identify some figurative statements<\/p>\n Fig Language Jan 26<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back! A 3 hour delay means we had approximately 90 minutes of class-time today. \u00a0booooooooos Let’s keep our fingers crossed that we do not have a repeat of last year’s snowfall. Even though we had just a bit of time today we did use that time to do some quick review of math … Continue reading Jan 26 (Tues) First day of 3rd Qtr<\/span>