Jeez how is it already Thursday?<\/p>\n
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We had an extremely involved conversation this morning about how to prove that 6\/8 is equal to .75<\/p>\n
One of our problems this morning gave us two answers depending upon how we did it. \u00a0One came up 6\/8 and the other came up .75<\/p>\n
So we took our our play money and found 6\/8 of 1. \u00a0We already know that .75 of 1 would be .75 of course, so if 6\/8 of 1 was equal to .75, it would indeed be equivalent.<\/p>\n
6\/8 of 1 means we take our one and break it into 8 equal groups, and then we take 6 of those. \u00a0When we broke our one down into 8 equal groups, we found each group to be equal to .125<\/p>\n
We then added that up 6 times, and we figured out that 6\/8 is indeed equal to .75<\/p>\n
Tonight students have a few more multiplication with fractions problems to do. \u00a0They should have many pages of examples at this point in their journals.<\/p>\n
multfracsep15<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we read a really neat story called A Bad Road for Cats. \u00a0This story is a good example of how a character can change throughout a story. \u00a0We had some great conversations about character traits and how we can use evidence from the text to help explain our thinking. \u00a0We managed to make a good chart using evidence from the text to describe Magda, the main character.<\/p>\n charactermagda<\/a><\/p>\n Tonight students should re-read this story, and fill in a story map detailing the story elements:<\/p>\n bad_road_for_cats_take_a_stand_14-15<\/a><\/p>\n StoryElements<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In science we talked briefly about biomes and an upcoming project we have where we will build a travel brochure inviting people to visit a specific biome. \u00a0Tonight students have some reading in their science textbook to do, and some questions to answer. \u00a0They should read pages B60 – B84 in their science textbook. \u00a0Then on a separate piece of paper, they should answer questions 1-6 on page B86, and questions 16-21 on page B87.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Use your math manipulatives to do some fraction multiplication problems:<\/p>\n multfracsep15<\/a><\/p>\n Read story and fill out story map<\/p>\n bad_road_for_cats_take_a_stand_14-15<\/a><\/p>\n StoryElements<\/a><\/p>\n Read B60-B84 in science textbook. \u00a0Answer questions 1-6 on page B86 and questions 16-21 on page B87.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And read! I told students the science reading can count as part of their reading log tonight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeez how is it already Thursday? We had an extremely involved conversation this morning about how to prove that 6\/8 is equal to .75 One of our problems this morning gave us two answers depending upon how we did it. \u00a0One came up 6\/8 and the other came up .75 So we took our … Continue reading Homework Sep 15 (Thurs)<\/span>