Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Pardon the short posts of late.

Homework:

- pp. 62 (#2,3,4) & 127 for Math
- write 3 simple & 3 compound sentences

The multiplication is becoming a little more challenging with this homework.  Just to remind you, homework is not graded but used to help deepen the student understanding.  We had a "pop quiz" based on the homework from last night.  Here is a sample of the quiz:

We did an Open Book test today and I put some sample questions on the board for the students to see and apply them to the questions on the test.  Here were the guiding questions:

Eventually we will be moving into division, but I had a Problem of the Day question that looked liked this:

We reviewed the answer together

 One of the goals in writing this term will be on the ability to write a paragraph.  We will need to take this slow, but have started to doing some review on writing sentences.  We will use some of the lessons from the Promethean Board and books in our class to help us.

A simple, compound, and complex sentence.

Handout on sentences (in the Literacy folder)