Just catching you up to with the new week!
Math
- Tomorrow we will have a quiz on the Math Learning Target "I can multiply fractions and mixed numbers and use this to solve problems." Tonight's homework is some practice problems. In case they have not made it home, I am have a copy with the answers posted here: [link].
- Next week we will start poking at dividing fractions using models before we settle into a calculation method.
- Tomorrow we will have a quiz on these learning targets in science:
- I can show how organisms in an ecosystem are connected with a food web.
- I can show the flow of energy within a food web.
- I can identify an organisms trophic level using a food web.
- Students may be asked to draw a food web, to label parts of it, or be asked to identify labeled parts of a food web. Level four students will be trying to share with me how energy is introduced into the food web and will be able to tell the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers.
- We are talking more about Photosynthesis right now in class. We went outside in the cold wet weather today to collect some leaves and brought them into the classroom to examine up close. We tried to peel them apart (the leaves) to see how the top surfaces might be different from the bottom surfaces on the inside of the leaf, but it was very difficult to separate them that way and all we had were hand lenses to examine them.
- We'll be learning more tomorrow about a simplified diagram for carbon dioxide fixation in plants (photosynthesis). Next week we'll talk more about energy and we'll start wrapping up our unit on populations and ecosystems.
Have a warm and dry evening!
Brian MacNevin
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