Today was a very good Monday.<\/p>\n
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We got a ton of stuff done. \u00a0This morning we did a lot of work with adding fractions and finding equivalent fractions. \u00a0We discussed that in order to find equivalent fractions, we can multiply any fraction by a form of one. \u00a0Multiplying by one will not change the value of our fraction, but it will change what our fraction looks like. \u00a0For instance if we multiply a fraction like 1\/2 by 2\/2 (which is equal to 1), we end up with 2\/4. \u00a0This may look different because we have cut our fraction into 4 pieces, but it is still equivalent to 1\/2. \u00a0This make sense, as multiplying anything by one will not change its value (multiplicative identity property).<\/p>\n
Tonight students have some fraction addition problems to solve. \u00a0Each fraction comes with a square that they should use to draw the fraction. \u00a0They should also show me what form of one they use to multiply their fractions by in order to find common denominators.<\/p>\n
Here are some examples:<\/p>\n
AddingFractionsExample<\/a><\/p>\n And the homework:<\/p>\n EquivFractionAddingHomeworkFeb9<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we had quite a few new books added to our classroom library. \u00a0We put these away and everyone got a chance to pick out one or two they would like to read. \u00a0We also took a look at what books everyone is interested in reading for the North Carolina Children’s Book awards. \u00a0Each student will be tasked with reading 3 of the books on the list on their own, and we will read two books together in class. \u00a0This means they will have read the requisite 5 books so that they can vote in March. \u00a0The book list and more information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tonight students have a ‘maze’ passage. (this is sometimes called a ‘daze’ passage). \u00a0Essentially it is a passage where specific words in the passage are removed, and replaced with three possible choices. \u00a0The students circle the words that make sense in the passage. \u00a0We will be having one of these each week to preview our science reading for the following day.<\/p>\n IntroToWeatherMaze<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Science we made our own little clouds inside a jar. \u00a0We filled the jar with warm water, and talked about how just water vapor does not a cloud make. \u00a0The water vapor would need to come together and condense, so we added ice to the top of the jar to cool the water vapor. \u00a0Still no clouds.<\/p>\n This is when we found out that clouds are formed when water vapor condenses, but it has to condense onto SOMETHING, which in the atmosphere are called cloud condensation nuclei. \u00a0These are tiny little particles in the atmosphere upon which water condenses, coming together to form clouds.<\/p>\n We added some cloud condensation nuclei to our jars in the form of some burnt matches. \u00a0This put small smoke particles in our jars upon which our water could condense, and form tiny clouds.<\/p>\n Tonight students have a simple sheet asking about the experiment we performed:<\/p>\n Making our own Clouds<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tomorrow we’ll make some different clouds!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n One set of adding fractions problems:<\/p>\n EquivFractionAddingHomeworkFeb9<\/a><\/p>\n examples if you need them:\u00a0AddingFractionsExample<\/a><\/p>\n Maze passage previewing tomorrow’s science passage:<\/p>\n IntroToWeatherMaze<\/a><\/p>\n One sheet reviewing our cloud experiement:<\/p>\n Making our own Clouds<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As always, read for 35 minutes!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a very good Monday. We got a ton of stuff done. \u00a0This morning we did a lot of work with adding fractions and finding equivalent fractions. \u00a0We discussed that in order to find equivalent fractions, we can multiply any fraction by a form of one. \u00a0Multiplying by one will not change the … Continue reading Homework Feb 9 (Mon)<\/span>