Edmodo Posts, Library Books and New Seats

Hello,

This morning we started the day with a trip to the Learning Commons to take out new books for the week. Thanks again to Natasha and Chelsea for helping everyone check out their books.

Next, we did our monthly seating change. We kept the desks in the same formation, but the students had to sit besides someone new for the month. The entire class was so well behaved and worked so hard for the month of September that I decided to let them choose their seating partners for this month as well.

Next, we read more from "Out of my Mind". We learned about a teacher that really annoyed Melody with her teaching methods. I hope that none of the students ever feel that way about me.

I posted some new questions on our Edmodo group and the students posted their responses, using the netbooks. If you haven't responded to all of the questions yet (except for the most recent one, as we haven't read to that part), please type your responses tonight. I will moderate and approve answers later this evening.

I am also still waiting on a few comic strips. I approved a few more comics today and I will check again this evening to see if any more have been submitted to me.

During second block we worked on a task involving proportional reasoning. The students had to answer the following three questions:

1. If you cut a piece of wood into 3 cm pieces, 1 cm is left over. If it is cut into 4 cm pieces, 1 cm is still left over. How long is the original piece of wood?

2. A recipe for 8 muffins uses 2 cups of flour. Choose a different number of muffins - either 10, 12 or 14 muffins. Tell how you will change the amount of flour. How many extra muffins did you make? Why do you not add that many cups of flour to the recipe?

3. Ross has a picture on his computer of a rectangle that is twice as long as it is wide. If he enlarges the shape so that the length is 50 cm, what is the width?

I will be using the data collected to help guide discussion at a Math workshop I am attending on Thursday with Math teachers in our School Board.

It was very interesting to see the responses of the students and the results will help to guide my instruction going forward. Ask your children if they can explain how they solved the questions. We have not corrected them yet.

Our Math took a little longer than expected, so the note about the Thanksgiving Grade 6 lunch will be sent out on Wednesday. The students will also be selecting what they would like to contribute as part of the meal.

Have a great night.

Mr. Skinner