Our second day went wonderfully. \u00a0How was yours?<\/p>\n
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First we talked a good bit about factoring and how it is used in real life. \u00a0We have been doing a real life factoring problem each morning, dealing with splitting up different amounts of objects into equal groups.<\/p>\n
For homework tonight, students have a short factoring and greatest common factor worksheet to do. \u00a0It’s fairly straightforward, and we will have a short quiz on finding factors tomorrow.<\/p>\n
FactoringJanuary29<\/a><\/p>\n GCFJanuary29<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then spent a good amount of time going over our Math Case 21. \u00a0We really need to focus on reading closely and ensuring that we answer what the question is asking. \u00a0One question specifically that MANY students missed asked for the price of five apples, and half of our class answered how much a single apple costs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Missing something like that is unfortunate\u00a0because it’s not really an ability problem (they were perfectly capable of solving the problem), but an attention to detail problem. \u00a0It is sad\u00a0that sometimes questions on standardized tests are ‘gotcha!’ questions like that, but it is a reality that we need to be prepared for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then started talking about the fantasy genre, which we will be focusing on this quarter. \u00a0We talked about how one of the main characteristics\u00a0of the fantasy genre are (surprise!) fantastical elements.<\/p>\n We watched two short clips, one that was VERY fantastical, and one less so, in order to demonstrate that a story not necessarily be truly out of this world to be included in the fantasy genre. \u00a0The students asked that I link them here so they might watch them later if they liked:<\/p>\n Francis<\/a><\/p>\n The Tale of Mr Revus<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This led us to realize that our Mysterious Benedict Society books that we have been reading are included in the Fantasy genre.<\/p>\n For homework tonight, students should have taken home their Language Arts journals with their summaries of the Mysterious Benedict Society books. \u00a0They should make a list of at minimum 3 realistic and 3 fantastical elements from the book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Science we got a chance to talk about why our aquarium turned green (Algae bloom!), and then talk a bit about weather.<\/p>\n In order to understand that weather is the state of the atmosphere in a specific place, we had to talk about our atmosphere, and then we had to discuss how our planet orbits the sun at a tilt while rotating, creating day, night, and seasons. \u00a0This led to more discussions about why we don’t feel the Earth moving, and eventually a detour to the ISS camera, so we could see the Earth truly spinning:<\/p>\n ISS live feed<\/a><\/p>\n It was a long, winding road we went down, but I think we might ACTUALLY be ready to discuss weather in detail starting tomorrow!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All in all, it was a great day!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n two math worksheets on factoring and greatest common factors:<\/p>\n FactoringJanuary29<\/a><\/p>\n GCFJanuary29<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And a list of 3 fantastical and 3 realistic elements from The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As always, read for 35 minutes and get your reading log signed!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our second day went wonderfully. \u00a0How was yours? First we talked a good bit about factoring and how it is used in real life. \u00a0We have been doing a real life factoring problem each morning, dealing with splitting up different amounts of objects into equal groups. For homework tonight, students have a short factoring … Continue reading Homework January 29 (Thurs)<\/span>