Tuesday

Student practiced writing a paragraph today. We talked about what should be in a good paragraph and then we re-ordered sentences to make the paragraph make sense. In math we learned more about factors and prisms. Students used cubes and learned that if you re-arrange the dimensions of a prism, your shape might look different, but you have the same number of cubes. The purpose of this lesson is to teach students that by rearranging the factors, you can find an easier way to multiply. An example might be 5 x 18. We know that 3 x 6 = 18 so we write 5 x 6 x 3. 5 x 6 = 30 x 3 equals 90. That is a lot easier than 5 x 18 = 90. It uses information that the student knows.

Students also had their eyes tested during our Idaho History time. So we went upstairs and whisper sang the counties of Idaho. This helped some of the students learn the song better. Remember to bring a pumpkin before Friday. Our costume walk is about 12:30 and the class will have a party decorating their pumpkins after that.