Dear Parents,<\/p>\n
Today, we started off with a class read-aloud of “The Invasion” (Animorphs) and then we did our Math Minute. Students handed in their Math Minute so I could see their progress and also track if they followed along in correcting their work. Then, I taught students how to figure out fractions of a set.<\/p>\n
I did a number of examples on the board where I drew out a certain number of counters and asked how many 1\/3 or 9 would be or 2\/4 of 16. I showed students two strategies:<\/p>\n
Strategy 1: Draw out the number of counters, divide into the number of groups based on the denominator, and then colour in the number of groups specified in the numerator.<\/p>\n
Strategy 2: Use multiplication to multiply the denominator into the number of counters. What you do to the bottom, you must do to the top.<\/p>\n
e.g. 3\/4 of 16<\/p>\n
3\/4 = ?\/16<\/p>\n
Multiply bottom by 4 and top by 4 = 12\/16 counters<\/p>\n
Then, we had snack and recess.<\/p>\n
Following recess, we had a classroom meeting where we celebrated recent successes we have been having in the classroom. We set our new class goals as: Respecting boundaries and keeping our classroom clean.<\/p>\n
Then, Ms. Varley came in and did a lesson with the students.<\/p>\n
After lunch, we worked on our Persuasive Writing outlines for our essays. We worked on mapping out Argument #2 & #3. This is homework if not already finished in class.<\/p>\n
Then, we did some Moon Book work (matching vocabulary) and take-up, started to label the moon phases, and students continued to work on their optical illusion art after.<\/p>\n
Finally, we did our planners and cleaned up.<\/p>\n
Reminder: Spelling Test Tomorrow!<\/strong><\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Ms. Wilks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Parents, Today, we started off with a class read-aloud of “The Invasion” (Animorphs) and then we did our Math Minute. Students handed in their Math Minute so I could see their progress and also track if they followed along in correcting their work. Then,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wilksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}