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1. Get your "Story of Stuff" project topic sheet signed over the weekend for Science. Remember to have your booklet back in class on Monday.
2. There is a Unit 8 Number Sense quiz on lessons one and two on Wednesday, March 26.
Thursday HW
There is no homework tonight.
Wednesday HW
1. MMS Lesson 2, pages 106-07 on Fractions and Mixed Numbers.
2. Bring Library books for tomorrow's Library book exchange period.
Tuesday HW
1. There is no homework today. We had nine students away again. I am trying to slow the pace somewhat to ensure catch-up is not so onerous.
Please bring Library books back starting tomorrow, in advance of our Wednesday Library period. The circulation system is running properly again and there will be a backlog if books arrive "just in time" for book exchange. A day earlier would be better.
For those students who are absent, we introduced the use of Cuisenaire rods for fraction manipulation today, but did not complete lesson 2. We spent two other periods on our Trickster Tale writing and a further one period following up the tail end of Monday's Science lesson and introducing the second Science lesson.
Monday HW
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
1. We started a new unit in Fractions today with a double period introduction. Students exchanged their old MMS homework duo-tangs for new ones for Unit 8. Tonight's homework is Lesson 1 on Equivalent fractions, pages 104-105.
A number of students were absent today. I will provide some in-class time at recess for catch-up but that isn't really going to be enough to replicate five class periods. Students can come to homework club on Monday nights to catch up or make plans to read the material and do these practice activities at home:
- We covered the equivalent fractions material in the hard cover text on pages 258-260 today in Math.
- In our Changes in Matter unit we performed the experiments as class demonstrations on pages 4 to 6 of the textbook.
- We also spent a period working on our Trickster Tale rough drafts, with a focus on counting sentences in each paragraph (five is the minimum), and identifying topic and concluding sentences.
- In our Social Studies work we answered question on the Thornton and Lucie Blackburn reading for "Flight to Freedom" and we read "Capture and Rescue" aloud.
