Today we spent most of the morning reviewing what we learned from our study of money. Students were called on one by one. Each could either recall something from memory about what they learned about money or go to the Concept/Question board and take off and read one of the entries. You can guess what choice appealed to most of them. As each idea was recalled, I put it on cluster or webs on the board. The students carefully copied the webs down. After they finished the webs, we brainstormed a sentence which could be used as a sentence which seemed to introduce or sum up the cluster. They will use these tonight to help guide writing a multiple paragraph essay. The sentences we brainstormed can be used as topic sentences for the various paragraphs. This is really a fourth grade kind of assignment, but I think they're ready to give it a try!
In math, students are learning to compare decimals. This is always a little tricky. Student instinctively think that 0.11 must be bigger than 0.9 because 11 is bigger than 9! It sort of makes sense, no matter how wrong it is! For this reason, we really must insist that they say "zero point one one" instead of "zero point eleven" which most of them will want to do. Of course, translating the decimals into equivalent fractions is what REALLY shows understanding.
Homework: (1) Math, Decimals p. 159, #1-14. (2) Write a three to five paragraph essay about money. Summarize what we discussed throughout the unit. Use the three clusters/webs developed in class this morning to guide you, including the sample topic sentences.
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