Very sorry about no update yesterday. \u00a0I had a wonderful day dealing with a kidney stone. \u00a0Every trip to the bathroom is going to be an adventure for a little bit.<\/p>\n
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Tomorrow is Friday! \u00a0This means quizzes! \u00a0it also means we have our multiplication\/jewel celebration. \u00a0Students will get to have some goodies based on how well they have done on their multiplication fact quizzes.<\/p>\n
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This morning we started talking about the revolutionary war and the colonies’ road to independence. \u00a0This will bring us back eventually to talking about government and how the U.S. came by its current system.<\/p>\n
We had to have quite a few side-conversations where we talked about\u00a0how taxes are used and why governments need to tax their citizens in order to provide public services. \u00a0Most students didn’t know how schools, or roads, or the government was paid for. \u00a0It’s paid for by everybody!<\/p>\n
Tonight students have a short reading about the causes leading up to the revolutionary war and some questions to answer about them. As always, I expect reasoning.<\/p>\n
Revolutionary_War_Beginnings<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In science we introduced the idea of wind patterns and how they can drive our understanding of how weather functions. \u00a0Tomorrow our quiz is on this, mixed with\u00a0review from last week’s talk about clouds. \u00a0Make sure you know this stuff!<\/p>\n Tonight students have another reading on air patterns and some questions to answer. \u00a0Again – REASONING!<\/p>\n Air Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally we did a little bit of review of the standard algorithm for division. \u00a0Students have another short set of problems to do tonight using the standard algorithm. \u00a0They should also check each problem using multiplication. \u00a0Tomorrow’s quiz is on this…<\/p>\n 8 \u00f7 5 =<\/p>\n 6\u00a0\u00f7 4 =<\/p>\n 26\u00a0\u00f7 5 =<\/p>\n 79\u00a0\u00f7 4 =<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally we had students form Ms. Sweet’s 3rd grade class visit us. \u00a0They had been working on inferencing and made little poems that were quite similar to our kennings. \u00a0We got into pairs and shared our poems and tried to guess each other’s topics. \u00a0It was a lot of fun, and there was a good bit of head-scratching going on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Revolutionary war questions<\/p>\n Revolutionary_War_Beginnings<\/a><\/p>\n Air pattern questions<\/p>\n Air Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n division using standard algorithm and CHECKED WITH MULTIPLICATION<\/p>\n 8 \u00f7 5 =<\/p>\n 6\u00a0\u00f7 4 =<\/p>\n 26\u00a0\u00f7 5 =<\/p>\n 79\u00a0\u00f7 4 =<\/p>\n and as always, read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quizzes tomorrow, so make sure you know your stuff, including your vocab.<\/p>\n Also jewel\/multiplication celebration tomorrow, so make sure all of your homework is done so you can participate!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Very sorry about no update yesterday. \u00a0I had a wonderful day dealing with a kidney stone. \u00a0Every trip to the bathroom is going to be an adventure for a little bit. Tomorrow is Friday! \u00a0This means quizzes! \u00a0it also means we have our multiplication\/jewel celebration. \u00a0Students will get to have some goodies based on … Continue reading Homework Feb 25 (Thurs)<\/span>