Happy Monday!<\/p>\n
A reminder: This Thursday, September 1st is our first APTT meeting. \u00a0I would really love an opportunity to talk with you about our students and their progress. \u00a0APTT gives us a great chance to look at data and talk about student achievement. \u00a0I hope everyone is able to make it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I love Mondays. \u00a0So much to do, and a week full of possibilities. \u00a0By Friday when we’ve only gotten half of what I planned to do finished I’m ready to have a breakdown, but Mondays are great!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So this morning we did some talk concerning decimals. \u00a0We discussed how really ‘decimal’ numbers are just ways we can represent fractions in base 10. \u00a0We talked about how to name decimal numbers, and different forms of decimal numbers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For example, the idea that .3 = .30<\/p>\n If we thought of this using money, it’s like saying 3\/10ths of a dollar (3 dimes) is equivalent to 30\/100ths of a dollar (30 pennies).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tonight students have some problems to work out using the distributive property of multiplication over addition. \u00a0Later this week we will move on to some work with decimals.<\/p>\n DPOMOAHomeworkAug29<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then read some more of The Mysterious Benedict Society. \u00a0Things are starting to get interesting, and next chapter we’ll learn about what big dangerous thing is happening that Mr. Benedict is worried about…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This week we will be focusing quite a bit on character traits, and how authors define a character by their actions, thoughts, and feelings. \u00a0Normally a character’s actions will tell us quite a bit about them. \u00a0For instance in the book we are reading, Reynie and Constance display VERY different behavior. \u00a0That behavior encourages us to like Reynie, and note quite so much Constance. \u00a0In this way authors can actually attempt to control their readers’ emotions. \u00a0Pretty awesome, or creepy, depending upon how you look at it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In science, we are still talking about producers, consumers, decomposers, and all that jazz. \u00a0Many of our seeds germinated over the weekend!! \u00a0We will be transplanting them outside even sooner than I had thought, which is fantastic. \u00a0Before you know it, we’ll be eating some vegetable that we grew ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tonight students have some questions about energy flow within ecosystems to answer. \u00a0They should use their science textbook to answer these questions. \u00a0Each question they answer should be accompanied by the page in their textbook where they found that information.<\/p>\n EnergyFlow<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Complete some multiplication using area models:<\/p>\n DPOMOAHomeworkAug29<\/a><\/p>\n Answer some questions about energy flow, and make sure you find the information in your textbook, and mark the page number next to each answer on the sheet:<\/p>\n EnergyFlow<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n and read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Monday! A reminder: This Thursday, September 1st is our first APTT meeting. \u00a0I would really love an opportunity to talk with you about our students and their progress. \u00a0APTT gives us a great chance to look at data and talk about student achievement. \u00a0I hope everyone is able to make it. I love … Continue reading Homework Aug 29 (Mon)<\/span>