This morning began with a story from Amelia about her Bermuda cruise.
We then jumped into what I would consider to be the most difficult math lesson that I have ever taught. It is a new Common Core based lesson on place value and its relation to base ten. Very abstract, very difficult and very few resources out there for it. Tomorrow we will dive back into this topic and flesh out any of our confusion. Here are some videos explaining the basics of the place value system and how to move through it.
https://learnzillion.com/lessons/16-understand-place-value-multiplying-by-a-power-of-10
https://learnzillion.com/lessons/425-understand-that-a-digit-in-one-place-is-110-the-value-of-the-digit-to-the-left-using-whole-numbers
At 10:15 we went down for a ventriloquist act that focused on bullying. Very interesting performance!
In the afternoon we drafted about an article of clothing or outfit that created a very visual memory. We then looked at a student who revised their work to make it more detailed and better exploded a moment. I am excited to see where our main drafts go. So much promise so far.
In reading, some students met in small groups to further discover text and graphic features while other groups began our first integrating knowledge where they must read two texts and write a response based on the prompt provided. This should be a great first experience with written responses in fifth grade. In future lessons we will model, guide and develop reading written responses.
Homework tonight:
- Math: Place Value HW
- Reading: read 30 min
- Spell/Voc: "man/manu" sentences due tomorrow and quiz (STUDY!); spelling due next Tuesday
- Other: planner signed, parents night papers handed in
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