Math Centers

Centers: Game: hidden treasure srb 319, jor 293, factor trees, playdoh: 2-d figures: journal 306 & worksheet

Game: Hidden Treasure

• Use Student Reference Book page 319 and Journal pg. 293. Play with people at your own table unless you have permission.

Worksheet: Factor Trees

• Practice making Factor Trees on blank paper. Use a die two times to find out what number to work with. Do at least 5 factor trees.

Playdoh: 2-d Figures

• Do journal page 306.
• Next, use your table's playdoh to make the shapes on the worksheet. Clean it when your done so it can be reused.
  

Done Early?

• Journal 299, 303, 307
• Challenge: journal 294

Exit Ticket

• What did you learn during centers today?
  

HW due Monday

1. Spelling words you got wrong 10 times.
2. Reading log.
3. Math: break

HW due on Friday

1. Make one full page picture using images that illustrate your spelling words.
2. Reading Log with quote.
3. Study for the math test and bring back your corrected worksheet.
4. ***Bring in your favorite recipe***(or post it in a comment on the blog)

Reminders:

• Math test is tomorrow.
• Bring back your birds and the bees permission slips.

Wednsday's Daily Report

Today, students:

Wrote a letter about a small moment that was meaningful to a teacher of their choice.

Took their mid-week spelling tests.

Learned how to divide using fractions by doing common denominator division.



Started making characters for our Storypath of Colonial Boston (below).


Met up with their second grade buddies to finish their poems.

ROF: characters

1. What jobs might certain family members do?

· Women and girls

a. Serve food

b. Laundry

c. Wash dishes

d. Clean

e. Cook

f. Iron

· Men and boys

a. Build

b. Work in the business

c. Chop wood

d. Manage money (did they have money?)

e. Take care of animals

What words describe personality?

· Funny

· classy

· inspirational

· loving

· shy

What leisure activities might people be involved in?

· going to the pub/hanging out with friends

· horse racing

· carpentry: build things

· games: lawn bowling (?), cards, dice, billiards (pool)

· dancing

· storytelling

· hunting

What interesting past experiences might your characters have had?

· Bit by a dog

· Practicing horseback riding

· Fell off a horse and broke both of their arms

· Both parents passed away because they were sick

· Mother was injured by a horse

· Father died (ran over by a horse)

· Coming from Britain to live in Boston

· Birth of a new baby

· How a person became a merchant/business worker

HW due Thursday

1. Spelling words in a story.
2. Reading Log.
3. Math worksheet (study for test)
4. ROF research

Reminders:

• Turn in your birds and bees permission slips.
• It's teacher appreciation week!
  

Tuesday's Daily Report

Today, students:

Wrote in their journals about Colonial Boston.

Turned in their homework and went over the spelling words. Here's some samples of homework. Find the spelling error, comment, and earn a point for your table.

Ms. Mundell joined us for math. We looked at finding the whole when we know the parts. Ahijah used counters.

In math centers, we're practicing writing to explain how to do math. Here's some useful words:

We reviewed the books that our librarian found for our Social Studies unit.

Here's the books selection.

Wow, look at those peas grow!