We continued reading about controlled experiments and the importance of only changing only one variable at a time so that the results of the experiments will be valid.
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We worked to finish our benchmark tests on Monday and then took the NWEA test for math during class today. Tomorrow we will review decimal place, place value, expanded form, comparing and ordering. We will be having the chapter 1 test on Friday. Students will go home with a study guide, which is one form of the test so that they will know what to practice. There are ample example problems in their math books as well as IXL skills (A1, A2, G1, G3, G4, G5, G9, G10, G11, G14)
Chapter 1 Test on Friday Today we read from our textbook and took notes on scientific inquiry, hypotheses and variables. Students will be having a quiz on scientific method later this week (Thursday or Friday- depending on class vote) which will cover putting the steps in order, and matching vocabulary with definitions (scientific method, observation, hypothesis and inference).
Today in math we reviewed ordering decimals. Most students did well on this on the pre-test, so it was just a review. We spent most of our class time doing a pretest for chapter 2. We will be finishing up our work with chapter 1 next week. The test is most likely on Friday.
No Homework Tonight Also of note: tomorrow we will be taking a chapter 5 benchmark test to allow us to have an overall view of what students already know of the 5th grade curriculum. On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, we will also be taking NWEA tests, one in math and one in reading. These are standardized and cannot be prepared for. The data is used to help teachers better know their students' strengths and weaknesses. Today students read an article in our Super Science magazine about biomimicry being used in developing robots. Students had to describe the structures and purposes of each mimicked animal in a worksheet. We also read an article on a new skydiving "glider" suit. We talked about how it also used biomimicry because it was based on a flying squirrel/sugar glider.
Students worked on, and some completed a comprehension worksheet during class. Others will finish tomorrow. Friday's articles are simple and complex machines (with some really wacky examples!) and the world's longest train tunnel and how engineers drilled it. Students will be completing worksheets on this. One involving a graph and one has students describe the simple machines involved in everyday items. Students will get work time to complete these in class. If not completed by the end of the class, students can finish up during WIN. Today we talked Variables! We discussed the meaning of variables and did a class list of variables that would affect a particular situation, then students independently practiced on a worksheet.
Today in math we reviewed and worked on expanded form. Some students needed to review the new model for expanded form that includes products. Some students, who had mastered this form already worked in small groups on expanded form that included decimals (lesson 6).
Homework tonight: pages 15 &16 (whole numbers) OR pages 47 & 48 (decimals) **based on what your student worked on today Today we re-watched the BrainPop video on scientific method and then took the quiz associated with the video. After going over the quiz as a whole group, students cut out the steps of the scientific method and glued them into their science notebooks in the correct order.
We worked on a number puzzle today. These will be done every Friday as a review of important math topics, like place value, divisibility rules, and comparing numbers (greater than or less than). After we finished number puzzle number 2, we continued talking about the divisibility rules and practiced using them. Each student has a copy of our divisibility rules chart in their math journals.
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