Reminders:
Students must be at school at 8:00 a.m. this Friday, May 4 for
our field trip to Marshall Gold Discovery State Park in Coloma! Please
make a note in your calendars and get ready to come to school early
that day (and plan for a late return around 4:30).
Homework:
Sentence and Punctuation multiple choice practice (due Thursday).
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group
Prepare for tomorrow's assessment.
Option 1: Complete a few of each kind of problem on the Fraction & Decimal Review
Option 2: Handout
Sentence and Punctuation multiple choice practice (due Thursday).
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group
Prepare for tomorrow's assessment.
Option 1: Complete a few of each kind of problem on the Fraction & Decimal Review
Option 2: Handout
Blue Group Homework: Standardized testing preparation worksheets.
5th Grade Math: Fifth grade will continue ERB practice for homework this evening.
5th Grade Math: Fifth grade will continue ERB practice for homework this evening.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Our warm up today focused on writing equations to solve word problems. We discussed comparison of fractions, then students worked on a Fraction & Decimal Review handout, to look back at all they have learned this unit. Questions came up: for example, what does it mean to write a fraction in "lowest terms"? (Find a common factor and simplify the fraction until it can no longer be simplified.) They will continue to work on completing at least a few of each kind of problem for homework, and we will go over answers in class tomorrow before the assessment. A small group continued work calculating percentages (handout here).
Blue Group: Today we focused on making equivalent fractions. We had an easy time thinking of equivalents for 1/2, but posed with finding equivalents for 1/4 the class was stumped, so we used a little "math magic" by multiplying by different versions of 1 (for example, 2/2, 3/3, 5/5 . . .) to make equivalent fractions. Then, we continued work on adding fractions by finding common denominators.
Purple group: Our warm up today focused on writing equations to solve word problems. We discussed comparison of fractions, then students worked on a Fraction & Decimal Review handout, to look back at all they have learned this unit. Questions came up: for example, what does it mean to write a fraction in "lowest terms"? (Find a common factor and simplify the fraction until it can no longer be simplified.) They will continue to work on completing at least a few of each kind of problem for homework, and we will go over answers in class tomorrow before the assessment. A small group continued work calculating percentages (handout here).
Blue Group: Today we focused on making equivalent fractions. We had an easy time thinking of equivalents for 1/2, but posed with finding equivalents for 1/4 the class was stumped, so we used a little "math magic" by multiplying by different versions of 1 (for example, 2/2, 3/3, 5/5 . . .) to make equivalent fractions. Then, we continued work on adding fractions by finding common denominators.
