Thursday, January 3, 2013

In Math today, we fixed our assessment on fractions. Only a handful "passed" the assessment. I did some re-teaching and gave them a second chance to complete the problems they missed. I will grade these tonight and send them home tomorrow. Hopefully, they will do better this second time around...unfortunately, the ones that needed to, didn't spend much more time fixing their mistakes. We'll see how it worked for them! Please look for them to come home tomorrow. We are also still working with probability and homework for the week is to play a game. Tough, right?! In Reader's Workshop, we continued working on our 2012 in pictures. We need one more day to finish these. For Writer's Workshop today, I had the students write about Math. Some did an amazing job. I told them that I was looking more at their writing and spelling than their math but some truly struggled with writing about math. I will look these over and make some notes but I found that some are not putting forth the effort they need to be successful. We finished our day with a video about Weathering and Erosion for Science. We will be doing some more work with the changes to Earth's surface tomorrow and next week.