Thursday, December 12

Messages and Reminders:
Our fractions unit test is tomorrow. Study your practice tests from yesterday! The Reading... Give It a Shot program is officially over tomorrow, but the hockey cards will still be at school if you want to bring your reading logs in next week.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we did a 3 question fractions mini-quiz before doing Mathletics on the laptops. A mini-quiz on whatever we've practiced in math that week is always our ticket to getting a laptop, but recently some of us haven't been reading the questions very carefully. We see a fraction and automatically just write an equivalent fraction, even if that isn't what the question is asking us to do. Today we were reminded to slow down and read carefully, and many of us did better. After Mathletics, we finished going over the questions on yesterday's fractions practice unit test. We also did some practice questions together to get better at converting fractions to decimals and percentages. In language arts, we listened to chapter 13 of LWW. We took a break to go to gym and then listened to chapter 14 and did a few of the chapter questions together as a class. We didn't visit the library today since all library books need to be back by tomorrow in order for Mrs. Paolini to go through the collection before winter break. We will resume our weekly library visits in January.

Upcoming important dates:
Friday, December 13 - fractions unit test
Friday, December 13 - last day of the Reading... Give It a Shot program
Wednesday, December 18 - red and green day
Thursday, December 19 - fun lunch
Thursday, December 19 - last day of school - report cards sent home
Friday, December 20 - non-instruction day
December 21 - January 5 - winter break
Monday, January 6 - school resumes