We will have our reading and spelling test tomorrow, but we are going to skip the math test and use our time on figuring out fractions. Many of the students are understanding, but there are some who are really struggling with order fractions with different denominators. We reviewed it today, but it isn't strong with them yet.
We reviewed our story and worked on metaphors in class. One group had to come up with a metaphor and another group had to guess what it meant. We discovered that it was easier to determine the intended meaning of a simile than a metaphor.
In Social Studies we continued telling our own family's story of migrating to Idaho. Those students who didn't have their paper in were given a paper to take home so that parents would know to help them.
Tomorrow is 100 days of school so the children will have a party at 2:00 to celebrate that event.
To help your child with ordering fractions: They need to be able to see the least common multiple (we haven't used that phrase yet) or the lowest number that both numbers can divide into evenly. So if you have a fraction of 2/6 and 3/4, what is the lowest number that 6 and 4 divide into evenly. That would be 24. Next, what identify fraction (a fraction that equals 1 like 2/2, 3/3, 4/4 etc) can you multiply 2/6 by to give it a denominator of 24. That would be 4/4 and you would have 8/24. Then what identity fraction can you multiply 3/4 by to give it a denominator of 24. You would multiply it by 6/6 and have 18/24. Then it is easy to see that 18/24 is larger than 8/24.
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