4th Grade Math: Lattice Multiplication Sheet
5th Grade Math: Math packet
Other: Please work on Wordly Wise (lesson 3) for 15-20 minutes
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We started the morning off by learning about some more state history: Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut, and Louisiana!
In math we learned another way to multiply-- LATTICE! Many of the kids were excited to learn this fun way of multiplying and found themselves successfully multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers. We'll continue to learn and practice more methods of multiplication and add more tools to our wonderful math toolbox.
Our class meeting today focused on electing out Student Council Representative. After our nominations last week, seven students chose to prepare a short speech explaining why they would make a good student representative. We heard some very convincing and well-thought out speeches and the vote was very close. We'll announce our elected representative tomorrow.
After hearing our speeches we directed our attention to another Zones of Regulation activity. Today we identified different tools we can use to move from zone to zone. Whenever someone is feeling a little down, hyper, angry, sad -- or whatever!-- they can chose a tool to get them back on track and record it with a sticker. We're hoping to become conscious of what tools work best to get ourselves back to green. You'll see in the picture below that we came up with a variety of ways to regulate our emotions.
Science: During our first botany conversation on Tuesday we made a list of what "we" as a class already knew about plants. A few students said that they know plants grow, but were not sure how they grow. This led to today's brief lesson for half the class (the other half tomorrow) about mitosis (the dividing of cells). We also reviewed some of the main cell parts by looking at images taken by an electron microscope.
During Word Study we learned a new Bingo game based on our word patterns from Words Their Way.
