Well\u00a0three posts in a row that are Mondays……<\/p>\n
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Let’s hope I get to post again on a Tuesday!<\/p>\n
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We are just ridiculously behind at this point. \u00a0We are three weeks from Case 21….which means we have lost around 20% of our instructional time this quarter. \u00a0Not sure what we’re going to do, but it’s going to be a busy three weeks!<\/p>\n
Today we talked much more about fractions, subtraction with fractions, and equivalent fractions. \u00a0We also talked about the link between division and fractions. \u00a0If we had something like 2 cakes to split among 4 people, each person gets 2\/4 of a cake. \u00a0We can visualize this by thinking we would cut the first cake into 4 pieces, and give each person a piece, and then do the same for the second cake. \u00a0So in total, they would get 2\/4 of a cake. \u00a0We then talked about what if there were 3 cakes? \u00a04 cakes? \u00a05 cakes? \u00a0We noticed this pattern:<\/p>\n
2\u00a0\u00f7 4 = 2\/4<\/b><\/p>\n
3\u00a0\u00f7 4 = 3\/4<\/b><\/p>\n
4\u00a0\u00f7 4 = 4\/4<\/b><\/p>\n
5\u00a0\u00f7 5 = 5\/4<\/b><\/p>\n
Neat, right?<\/p>\n
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Tonight students have some more subtraction problems to work on:<\/p>\n
FractionSubtractionMar3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we began our discussion of figurative language. \u00a0We came up with this awesome definition together:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Figurative language is literally language that you don’t take literally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I love it.<\/p>\n Tonight students have two sheets dealing with similes and metaphors to work on. \u00a0As we deal more and more with figurative language, we will work on incorporating more of it into our writing.<\/p>\n SimilesMetaphorsMar3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next we went and previewed the book fair! \u00a0If you didn’t know (and how would you seeing how I would have announced it last week!), we are having a scholastic book fair at Lockhart this week. \u00a0Students wrote down a list of books they would like. \u00a0We will be going in to purchase as a class on Wednesday but if students bring in money on another day, that would be fine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We spent some time today talking about references and bibliographies for our weather research paper. \u00a0Students also got a hand-out for them to keep track of the books\/websites\/articles they use when answering their questions:<\/p>\n Research List<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students also have another DAZE passage dealing with rain. \u00a0They should read through the passage, and circle the word that works in each sentence.<\/p>\n RainDazeMar3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We also finally got around to getting a new Children’s book awards book! \u00a0It’s what they should be reading tonight!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n one page of subtraction problems:\u00a0FractionSubtractionMar3<\/a><\/p>\n similes and metaphors:\u00a0SimilesMetaphorsMar3<\/a><\/p>\n DAZE passage dealing with rain:\u00a0RainDazeMar3<\/a><\/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":" Well\u00a0three posts in a row that are Mondays…… Let’s hope I get to post again on a Tuesday! We are just ridiculously behind at this point. \u00a0We are three weeks from Case 21….which means we have lost around 20% of our instructional time this quarter. \u00a0Not sure what we’re going to do, but … Continue reading Homework Mar 2 (Mon)<\/span>