It's getting COLD outside, but our room is NICE and TOASTY!
The students had science class with Ms. Galan first period. They have changed their unit of study. Ask them about their science class!
2nd period we did reading groups for about 30 minutes. My Charlie and the Chocolate Factory read chapters 25 and 26 of our book and talked about the different techniques that the author Roald Dahl uses to represent his characters and to move the plot of the story. There is a great deal of rich language in the book, and the students are really enjoying it.
3rd period - We are reading a great book for ReadyGen called "The Birchbark House". We spent a lot of time reviewing where we were, the characters, what we have found out about them, and what the author wants us to "infer" about them based on their actions and what they do. We read Chapter 4 "Addeg" as a guided group reading activity. We then did a series of discussion questions and then students came up to the desk and shared their "opinion responses" using the digital camera. As a class, we looked at their responses and looked for their claim (Opinion), 2 pieces of evidence from the text to support their claim (OPINION), and did they explain how those pieces of evidence directly support their claim. In some cases they did, some they didn't. But that is why we are practicing now before the state test!
This continued into 4th period. They were then given a new "opinion prompt" for homework. Half way into 4th period we transitioned into math and reviewed 4.8 (division using partial quotients) and took a quiz on it. We are still having problems with this method, but that is more about not understanding multiplication facts than division. They are SLOWLY getting it. We then used base ten rods and units to show that sometimes you have to regroup your tens to ones so you can equally divide your numbers. We did several examples and then I let students come up and use the blocks and model on the document camera for the class to view. We worked through 4.9 together and the kids really seemed to like using the manipulatives to solve the problems. This took us all the way to lunch!
6th period they had lunch!
7th period we finished working with the base ten blocks and did a few more practice problems with partial quotients using two different methods. Practice practice practice!
Homework:
The students had science class with Ms. Galan first period. They have changed their unit of study. Ask them about their science class!
2nd period we did reading groups for about 30 minutes. My Charlie and the Chocolate Factory read chapters 25 and 26 of our book and talked about the different techniques that the author Roald Dahl uses to represent his characters and to move the plot of the story. There is a great deal of rich language in the book, and the students are really enjoying it.
3rd period - We are reading a great book for ReadyGen called "The Birchbark House". We spent a lot of time reviewing where we were, the characters, what we have found out about them, and what the author wants us to "infer" about them based on their actions and what they do. We read Chapter 4 "Addeg" as a guided group reading activity. We then did a series of discussion questions and then students came up to the desk and shared their "opinion responses" using the digital camera. As a class, we looked at their responses and looked for their claim (Opinion), 2 pieces of evidence from the text to support their claim (OPINION), and did they explain how those pieces of evidence directly support their claim. In some cases they did, some they didn't. But that is why we are practicing now before the state test!
This continued into 4th period. They were then given a new "opinion prompt" for homework. Half way into 4th period we transitioned into math and reviewed 4.8 (division using partial quotients) and took a quiz on it. We are still having problems with this method, but that is more about not understanding multiplication facts than division. They are SLOWLY getting it. We then used base ten rods and units to show that sometimes you have to regroup your tens to ones so you can equally divide your numbers. We did several examples and then I let students come up and use the blocks and model on the document camera for the class to view. We worked through 4.9 together and the kids really seemed to like using the manipulatives to solve the problems. This took us all the way to lunch!
6th period they had lunch!
7th period we finished working with the base ten blocks and did a few more practice problems with partial quotients using two different methods. Practice practice practice!
Homework:
- Writing Opinion Prompt: How do you think Omokayas felt about the gift her father gave her when he returned?
- Math - Practice Book 4.9
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