Snow, Library and chorus

Hello,

The day went fast.  We got into the computer lab for an hour to work on our Explorer Cards.  We'll have one more forty minute session (on Wed) to finish that up.  Thanks to Pat for coming in and helping in the lab. 

We are struggling with the bar modeling in math.  If I use big numbers, the kids don't know what to do to solve the problem.  If I use small numbers, they figure it out in their heads, but have no idea what they did to solve it.  We will back the bus up to the third and fourth grade books for a bit.  They need to be able to express what they are doing to solve a word problem, be it by equation, picture or bar model.  Right now, I'm still searching for a launching off point for them.  In the mean time, keep practicing the facts. 

The afternoon consisted of fairy tales, library and chorus.  I'm hoping our fairy tale unit will help with some of our creative writing.  These stories get right to the problem and then have a rhythm on how they get solved.  We talked about what lessons that we can take from these famous tales to incorporate into our own writing. 

I'm going to hit the snowy roads.

Homework club tomorrow.

Thanks for reading.

Mr. Shea