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| Reading groups met for the final time today after finishing their books. Students discussed the rising and falling actions of their books and the shortcomings of the graphic organizer that forces students to imagine each book as a kind of mountain. Books read more like mountain ranges, with many ups and downs, moments of tension and release. |
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| I teach a lesson on the different kinds of problems characters face in books: person vs. society, person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. destiny, etc. Students reconvened to discuss how each of these problems played on in the book their group read. |
Read for 30 minutes (independent choice)
Write for 15 minutes in writers notebook (your choice)
Math:
Fifth graders used Base-10 Blocks™ to build and read fractions up to thousandths. They used calculators to multiply decimals after making mental estimates. They cut out decimal cards and placed them on number-lines. It's decimals, decimals, and more decimals this unit. Check yesterday's blog for the hw and problem of the week.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Students shared ways of finding areas of convex and concave pentagons, using more efficient strategies than just counting squares. Then we worked on categorizing polygons by the number of vertices, sides, types of angles, and lines of symmetry, to review for our assessment tomorrow.
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:
Complete G4-16 on page 170, Comparing Shapes, and G4-17, Sorting & Classifying Shapes, problems 1-2 on page 171 till halfway through page 172 in the JUMP packet, which you can download here
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