Math: We discussed last week's quiz through the lens of adjustments and improvements. AS you know, we've spent quite a bit of time the last few weeks trying to strengthen our understandings of fractions and money. Short of some computation errors, I feel we are ready to move onward...

With that said, we built upon our fractions knowledge by exploring percents and decimals. This has been a perennial trouble area in the upper grades so we are taking it nice and sloooowwwww...

Homework - Everyone is to complete the reteach page only. Plus, they should have their quizzes signed and returned.

Language Arts:

Perfect Paper Airplanes - I mixed it up today...we worked with the latest issue of Time For Kids. The should reread the issue tonight with an adult.

Charlotte's Web - We had an eye-opening discussion of boastful behavior. Tonight they should reread chapter 9 and think about instances where Charlotte and/or Fern are disappointed in Wilbur and times where they admire him...

William and Mary - We continued discussing our persuasive activity by focusing on the introductory sentence in small group, breaking out into 2 groups to revise the introductions, and pairing off to provide feedback to a peer...final draft is due tomorrow so I'm interested to find out how effective the peer review aspect was...

Science - The herbs are looking great! In addition to comparing the herbal growth rates to the package information, we created our bee sticks that will be used for cross-pollination for the remainder of the year.