celeste biron-libby

The students are continuing to work on their Powerpoint book reports. We are also doing reading assessments.

The students are finishing up taking a cummulative test on fractions. We will be continuing this on Monday.

We are almost  finished  with our first Mathscapes unit, fractions! Wewill be  having  a cooking class  to celebrate  this accomplishment  at the end of the week.  The students  will  be dividing fractions  to a recipe  and  making brownies. 

The students are almost finished with their greeting cards and Holes  reflection. We will be  moving onto Powerpoint book reports.

The students finished reading Holes two weeks ago! The book was enjoyed by all. This was a lengthy book and I am proud of the student for persevering through it. We watched the movie version last week and we are currently working on our reflections and a comparison between the book and the movie.

Today the students will begin learning the concept of dividing fractions. I am happy to announce that we are on lesson 18 (out of 20) in our pilot Mathscapes program. I anticipate that we will be finished with our first Mathscapes unit in two weeks. We will have a celebration to mark this occasion.

The students have been working on reducing fractions and cross multiplying. After vacation we will be working on multiplying mixed numbers.

The students will be moving into writing short stories to books without words after vacation. The library has a great selection of these books and I can not wait to read the creativity that the students come up with.

We have been working on solving fractions of fractions this week.
Example 1/3 of 2/5 is 2/15. The students have been making visuals to accompany their work.

The students are contuing to work on their plot diagrams. These are near completion and will be on display at the Celebration of Learning on May 7th. Last week we took a walk out to the new dome. We explored the dome, came up with questions, and wrote about it. The students were all curious about the solar panels and how they worked.