Week 9

We finished our first unit and had the “big test” yesterday! In general, the students scored very well!  We are now moving on to double-digit multiplication.

Today and tomorrow, our classroom has become a “math laboratory.”  Many other educators will be in our room during our morning math class to observe the lesson(s) and the students. They will be looking for how students learn, and how the teacher (yikes!) facilitates learning through specific strategies. This “lab” will happen again a few more times throughout the year. It’s an opportunity for me and other educators to improve our practice of teaching math. Because of this, I was gone this afternoon and will be gone for most of the day on Friday (other than during the math lesson).

If you have Internet at home, students can log onto their Khan Academy account through their Google account (the mcsdonline.org address).  I’ve set up a learning path for each of them to follow, which has been really beneficial in the short amount of time we’ve used it.  Moby Max Fact Master is also a good site for them to use to practice basic math facts.

In Science, we are learning about the terrestrial planets, the Asteroid belt, the gas giant planets, and more!

I look forward to seeing many of you next week during conferences!