{"id":1355,"date":"2016-03-14T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2016-03-14T19:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:41:36","slug":"homework-mar-14-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Homework Mar 14 (Mon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is our field trip to East Wake Middle School!<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0We will get a tour of the school and students will be able to see what a day in their lives will look like next year. \u00a0I’m looking forward to seeing what they learn from their trip, and what their thoughts will be afterwards.<\/p>\n

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Long time no update!<\/p>\n

I apologize for my lack of updates last week. \u00a0I was away at a training sponsored by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. \u00a0I went to create an update my first night, and realized that I had left all of my files with the substitute. \u00a0Pretty embarrassing.<\/p>\n

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This morning I came in and read an absolutely glowing review from the substitute. \u00a0Aside from a bit of talking (this is a VERY talkative group), she had great things to say about students doing what they were supposed to and staying on task.<\/p>\n

This morning we spent a good amount of time talking about fractions, and especially about equivalent fractions. \u00a0We discussed the multiplicative identity property, which states that we can multiply anything by 1, and still have our original value. \u00a0We can use this property to our advantage for finding equivalent fractions.<\/p>\n

For example I can take any fraction, and multiply it by a form of one. \u00a0The answer must be an equivalent fraction:<\/p>\n

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1\/2 * 2\/2 = 2\/4<\/p>\n

1\/2 = 2\/4<\/p>\n

3\/5 * 4\/4 = 12\/20<\/p>\n

3\/5 = 12\/20<\/p>\n

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We took some notes on this as well:<\/p>\n

Fraction_Notes_March14<\/a><\/p>\n

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We then finished up our center rotations from last week that we didn’t get to. \u00a0The students are doing a much better job working independently at centers. \u00a0I was quite impressed. \u00a0Tonight students have a deceptively large amount of work, but if they were on task last week during center times, they should just be putting the finishing touches on last week’s work:<\/p>\n

First, fill in this map with the names of the 13 original colonies. \u00a0Part of this assignment is finding a map in their social studies book or finding this information in another reference.<\/p>\n

All of these colonies eventually became states. \u00a0Each state has an abbreviation. \u00a0For example, North Carolina is NC. \u00a0They should put the abbreviation for each state on this map as well.<\/p>\n

Map_of_Thirteen_Colonies<\/a><\/p>\n

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Next, students have some reading to do and a worksheet on clouds to finish:<\/p>\n

Cloud_Worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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They also have two worksheets on idioms, as well as nouns and proper nouns, to finish:<\/p>\n

idiom-test-1<\/a><\/p>\n

common-and-proper-nouns-and-capitalization-worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Finally, they have some writing prompts. \u00a0They should pick *one* of these, and respond:<\/p>\n

Writing_Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n

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At the end of the day we had some time in the computer lab to finish up our visual poems. \u00a0These are starting to look quite good. \u00a0Students did a great job while I was gone figuring out how to use some of the tools in a word processor, and their poems have obviously taken them some time.<\/p>\n

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so, tl;dr<\/p>\n

Finish these 5 centers from last week:<\/p>\n

Cloud worksheet<\/p>\n

Cloud_Worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n

Label this map with the names of the colonies, and the state abbreviations:<\/p>\n

Map_of_Thirteen_Colonies<\/a><\/p>\n

Figurative Language – Idioms:<\/p>\n

idiom-test-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Grammar – capitalization:<\/p>\n

common-and-proper-nouns-and-capitalization-worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n

Write!<\/p>\n

Writing_Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n

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And of course, read read read<\/p>\n

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Have a good one,<\/p>\n

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-Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is our field trip to East Wake Middle School! \u00a0We will get a tour of the school and students will be able to see what a day in their lives will look like next year. \u00a0I’m looking forward to seeing what they learn from their trip, and what their thoughts will be afterwards.   … Continue reading Homework Mar 14 (Mon)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrpottersclassroom.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}