Illustrating Fractions

• 1st and 2nd - Literacy Block
• Today we had a nice breakfast to start our learning adventures.  As students ate, they worked on their word work practice "Word Ladder".  I had many of the students come show me they finished all on their own with no help.  So much better than the start of the year.  After going over the clues and words, we moved to last night's Test Prep question and why the right answer was the right answer.  Then we looked at three questions from the same text, and again broke it down to understand why each answer was right or wrong.  Finally we looked at the question they would tackle tonight for Test Prep homework.
• For ReadyGen today, we did lesson 2B.14.  The focus of this lesson was understanding how the illustrations help support the main idea.  The main idea of the text is: "Neighborhoods are places where people live, play, and help each other."  After reading the text as a group, we looked at one of the illustrations, wrote a summary of what it showed, then came up with how the illustration contributed to the main idea.  We ended by sharing out what several of the students came up with.
• 3rd and 4th - Math Block
• We started the period going over the questions from Test Prep.  Then we looked at the problem of the day.  After explaining the WHY and the WHY NOT for all the answers, the students used the same technique to complete a practice problem.  Then we looked at how this relates to the question they have tonight for Test Prep homework.   Then we went over last night's homework.  We had to check section GoMath 8.5 to make sure they understood it, and then checked the mid-chapter review.  We went question by question and made sure they understood each section before moving on.  Parents - only about 1/2 the students did their math homework last night.  Please make sure you are checking homework for completion.  It will help a great deal in ensuring students are practicing the skills we covered in class each night.
• The lesson today, GoMath 8.6 was focusing on relating fractions to whole numbers.  If the fraction is 3/3 then it is equal to 1.  If the fraction is 2/3 it is less than one.  If the fraction is 4/3 it is more than one.  The major focus was making sure they realized that 3 parts out of 3 parts made a whole.   We did the On Demand Math video which gives them a visual of what we will be doing today.  Then we did the interactive math lesson which walks them through the steps.  Finally, we did the Unlock the Problem and the Try This together.  Students came up to the front to practice the Show What You Know.  Then they worked independently to do the on your own problems.  We ended by going over these problems and making sure we understood that for a fraction to equal 1, the numerator and denominator both have to be the same number.  

• 5th - Lunch
• 6th - Gym
• Ummm, Ms. Avalos walked 10 laps before the students started.  I jogged 3 of the 15 laps, then walked the rest of them.  I tried, but 3 was all I could jog.  Yesterday I just walked the last 5 with them, so better!  
• 7th - 100th Day of School Activity - Science

Homework

• Math
• Test Prep Question
• GoMath 8.6 - pp 479-480
• Division Practice #23
• Literacy
• ReadyGen 2B.14 - T-Chart "Illustrations/Contribution" 
• Pick 2-3 more illustrations to summarize and tell how they contribute
• Test Prep Question
• Spelling Practice - Test Tomorrow
• Pack
• Tomorrow is 100 Minute / 100 AR Point  Read-a-Thon
• Pajamas
• Blanket
• Stuffed Animal
• Books to Read
• Good Attitude