Happy Monday!<\/p>\n
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Today we were a bit….off. \u00a0Had some issues with staying on task and making sure we cut our side conversations off when appropriate. \u00a0Tomorrow is a new day, and hopefully it will be MUCH better!<\/p>\n
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This morning we took a look at all of the different things we have worked on this quarter. \u00a0We then went over our quizzes from Friday, and our quizzes from this quarter. \u00a0Students gave themselves interim grades (that Mr. Potter checked to make sure they were what he would have given them!). \u00a0For the *most* part, students were honest with themselves. \u00a0They saw their grades and they saw the work they had done, and were capable of saying “I understand this” or “I don’t understand this yet”. \u00a0This is a very important skill that students will need throughout their lives as they assess their own understanding and plan their own learning.<\/p>\n
Tonight students should get this interim signed. \u00a0Also please use it to record their reading log, as we ran out of time to hand out the new ones at the end of the day. \u00a0Sorry about that.<\/p>\n
Last week students purchased an ice cream and movie party for our class using the tickets they had saved up. \u00a0So, today we had ice cream cones and watched “Stick Man”. \u00a0Tomorrow we’ll take another little break and watch “Room on the Broom” and have ice cream sandwiches! \u00a0I was really impressed last week with how they had pooled all of their tickets to purchase something for the class as a whole.<\/p>\n
We then went over what different mathematical operations really mean. \u00a0 One problem we are running into when we are examining word problems is we aren’t quite sure about multiplication and division yet. \u00a0So today we talked about some things that operations can represent:<\/p>\n
Addition ( X + Y ): \u00a0is about combining things. \u00a0Finding a total, a sum. If I put X and Y together, how much are they in total?<\/p>\n
Subtraction ( X- Y): is about finding the difference between two numbers. \u00a0How much bigger (or smaller) is X than Y? \u00a0It can also answer if I took Y away from X, what would I have left?<\/p>\n
Multiplication ( X * Y): is about repeated equal groups. \u00a0Repeated addition. \u00a0X groups of some number Y (or Y groups of some number X)<\/p>\n
division (X \u00f7\u00a0Y): is about splitting some value into equal groups. It can also be repeated subtraction. \u00a0Or how many Y are in X?<\/p>\n
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Tonight students have 4 equations to look at. \u00a0They should then write a word problem that would be solved by the given equation. \u00a0Make sure you look at what each equation represents, and that you go through your steps when solving them!<\/p>\n
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so, tl;dr<\/p>\n
A very easy night I believe….<\/p>\n
Get your interim signed (and use it as a reading log as well!)<\/p>\n
Write a word problem that would be solved by each of these, and then solve them using our steps:<\/p>\n
If you’ve forgotten them, the steps are:<\/p>\n
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And 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":"
Happy Monday! Today we were a bit….off. \u00a0Had some issues with staying on task and making sure we cut our side conversations off when appropriate. \u00a0Tomorrow is a new day, and hopefully it will be MUCH better! This morning we took a look at all of the different things we have worked on … Continue reading Homework May 23 (Mon)<\/span>