Our research project has begun!<\/p>\n
This week and the beginning of next week, we have two projects we will be focused on.<\/p>\n
In science we are creating a biome brochure. \u00a0Our purpose with this brochure is to PERSUADE and INFORM our reader. \u00a0We should be persuading our reader to visit our biome, and also informing them about our chosen biome. \u00a0In order to do this we will start by researching our biome.<\/p>\n
We had a long talk today about good research. \u00a0Research has changed quite a bit from when we would spend long weekends in the library looking through card catalogs, encyclopedias, and ancient texts. \u00a0While it is wonderful how easily we can access information these days, it also means we must be discerning when picking websites to use when researching.<\/p>\n
We talked about how anyone and everyone can put whatever they like on the internet. \u00a0In order to illustrate this I started writing random things on the website. \u00a0Feel free to click on the blah blah link on the left for a random assortment of things students yelled at me today!<\/p>\n
During the next two days we will be doing quite a bit of research. \u00a0This research will be done at school. \u00a0I always give students a good amount of time to work on projects at school. \u00a0We don’t all have the same resources available to us, and it’s not quite fair to all if I expect projects to be done at home. \u00a0As such there is no science homework tonight, but if some students would like to continue researching at home they may. \u00a0I would ask that for now students stick to these two websites:<\/p>\n
Wise Owl<\/a><\/p>\n KDE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Writing we will be creating our own version of A Bad Road for Cats. \u00a0 We’ve talked about this story a good deal in class, and about the character of Magda and how she seems to have changed throughout the story. \u00a0Students will now write their OWN version of the story, and instead of Magda will substitute the character that they created and have been writing about.<\/p>\n We first took some notes in our writing journal making sure we had a good story map of the original story. \u00a0We came up with this together:<\/p>\n badroadforcatsstorymap<\/a><\/p>\n Tonight students should at minimum create their own story map of their Bad Road For Cats Version 2. \u00a0They will replace Magda with their own character. \u00a0The general outline should remain the same, but they may change a decent amount. \u00a0What is important is that their character shouldn’t react the same way that Magda does. \u00a0They should react the way their character would react. \u00a0Get into your character’s shoes and think about how they would really react to these situations. \u00a0What would they do? \u00a0What would they say? \u00a0How would they feel? \u00a0Write with these in mind.<\/p>\n Here is what we started on (and what their own story map should kinda look like):<\/p>\n badroadforcatsversion2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students should also do their next 4 vocab squares in their vocabulary journal.<\/p>\n wordlistject<\/a><\/p>\n In math we played a fun game called banker and boss. \u00a0Essentially one person is the banker and the other person is (surprise!) the boss. \u00a0The banker gives the boss some money, and the boss needs to pay his\/her employees. \u00a0They need to divide their money evenly among their employees and figure out how much each would be paid. \u00a0This helps us to understand division, and also eventually to understand how the standard algorithm for long division works.<\/p>\n Tonight students have 3 of these banker\/boss problems to do. \u00a0If possible, I would LOVE for them to do then with a parent or guardian. \u00a0If that’s not possible I understand, but it should be 10-15 mins out of your day tops. \u00a0Please give it a try if you can.<\/p>\n bankerbosssep20<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n Make sure you have at MINIMUM a story map of your Bad Road for Cats version 2.<\/p>\n badroadforcatsversion2<\/a><\/p>\n next 4 words off vocab list in vocab notebook<\/p>\n wordlistject<\/a><\/p>\n Biome research if you would like but not required<\/p>\n Some banker\/boss problems with a parent guardian if possible<\/p>\n bankerbosssep20<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n and read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our research project has begun! This week and the beginning of next week, we have two projects we will be focused on. In science we are creating a biome brochure. \u00a0Our purpose with this brochure is to PERSUADE and INFORM our reader. \u00a0We should be persuading our reader to visit our biome, and also informing … Continue reading Homework Sep 20 (Tues)<\/span>