Friday, November 16th

ELA -- Students wrote a 2-paragraph essay on their final reflection of The Giver.  They had to write their opinion of the book and write about how reading the book changed their understanding of the world.  Students also continued to do research for their inventor's projects and they completed and turned in their guided reading packets.

Social Studies -- Students worked on their Cattle Drive maps.

Math -- Students took the first part of the math assessment on creating equivalent fractions, modeling fractions, and adding/subtracting fractions with alike denominators.

Science -- Ms. Karably pulled small groups to go over how to create parallel circuits.

Holiday Homework

At the risk of damaging my "cool-teacher-who-doesn't-give-homework" reputation, I'm giving a small math packet to be completed over the break.  After looking at the assessment results, I can see that students need a bit more practice with finding common factors and making equivalent fractions.  I want to make sure that everyone has those skills down before I move on to multiplying and dividing fractions.  Students who did well will be given a front/back challenge sheet.  The homework is due on the Monday we return from break.