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After you click the picture above, select "Whole Numbers - Positive Only".
Today went by very quickly. I thought you'd be interested in how our day went, so read below for the details.
LANGUAGE: I introduced pronouns to the class. (They are words that take the place of nouns like: he, she, they, them, his, her, our, it, I, this, that, these, those.) We played a few games with pronouns and you can check them out by viewing the post I made earlier in the day...here.
WRITING: We talked a little about story organization by listening to a picture book called Tops and Bottoms. It was a clever story about how a hare outsmarted a bear, but I pointed out to them how well organized the plot was. (The hare makes a deal with the bear and outsmarts him. The bear demands a new deal...the hare outsmarts him. The bear gets really angry and demands a new deal...and yet the hare still outsmarts him.) It was fun trying to predict how the hare would win in the end.
MATH: We worked on a math problem from page 93 in your math journal. Essentially, this was it:
Mrs. Neal is setting up chairs for Parent Night. She wants them to be in rows with the same number of chairs in each row. Use the clues to find out how many chairs are in the room.*When she tried to set up the chairs in rows of 2, there was 1 leftover chair.
*She also had 1 leftover chair when she tried to set them up in rows of 3.
*One of her students suggested that she try rows of 4. There was STILL 1 leftover chair.
*Finally, she tried rows of 5. This worked fine. There were no leftover chairs.
*The number of chairs in the room was the smallest possible number that fits all of these clues.
When you have found the answer, record it in your journal on page 93
Next, circle dots to show the chairs in rows of 2, 3, and 4, each with 1 chair left over. (Here is an example...I tried 11 chairs to see if it fit the clues. It didn't work.)
This afternoon, we answered questions about the Judy Blume books we are reading. If I did not give you a copy yesterday, there will be one waiting for you when you return.
We had a Thanksgiving All School Convo this afternoon before we headed to the music room for fine arts.
I hope you are enjoying your trip...and that you took a bunch of books to read!
Take care,
Mrs. Neal
Happy New Year!
Today's been a full day! I introduced the newest vocabulary words in Wordly Wise. You can review their meanings below.
Lesson 7
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We also entered five new spelling words into our Spelling Dictionaries:
knew, new, won, wear, where
During math, we first reviewed the multiplication facts. This was prettier before I uploaded it to Slideshare, but perhaps it can still be helpful when practicing your math facts.
The math lesson focused on reading large numbers (into the ten thousands). There is a tutorial here that might help, and you can also use this site or this one for a review. There is a fun game here from Toon University you might enjoy.
I also like the games Guess My Number, Place a Number, and Place a Number II.
After lunch, we shar
ed a few blogs that hadn't been shared yet. We also talked about our next Social Studies project: Explorers. The students named a few famous explorers they remembered such as...
After we discussed why explorers might have been interested in traveling to unknown areas of the world, we watched a video about Christopher Columbus from History's Mysteries. It was a lot of fun!
This afternoon we talked about our Reading Counts goals for the year and calculated how many points everyone would need to earn each month in order to reach those goals. It helped everyone set appropriate goals for January.
At the end of the day we visited the library for a bit of silent reading and discussed the results of our lima bean/plaster experiment from last month. Evidently plants DO have the power to make rock crack and crumble! There will be more about that later, but you can check out some examples of weathering here in the meantime.
