Dear Families,
Hi again! I just wanted to let you know where we are at in math and science right now!
Math
- Last week we took the percents quiz on Thursday. Today my students in my blue group got their quiz back to bring home. My red group students will get theirs first thing tomorrow morning (nothing is wrong, I just forgot to hand it out before they transitioned to Language Arts/SS).
- Tomorrow night students will write a reflective letter on the quiz.
- I was REALLY impressed with how well students knew their strategies! Unfortunately, I was a little surprised at how many calculation errors there were. In other words: almost everyone knew what the needed to do, they just couldn't do the calculations reliably. I couldn't give someone a 3 (meeting grade level) based on the concept if they couldn't carry out the calculation.
- Students with less than a 3 are to revise their work and come to extended learning for support this week.
- NEW TOPIC: Last week we reviewed the area of rectangles and triangles and we also looked at the area of composite (complex) shapes. Right now we are extending those skills into 3D! Today we talked about surface area and we used grid-paper constructs called nets to help us imagine and calculate the surface area of some small shapes built of three 1-cm cubes. We will focus on the surface area of rectangular prisms and pyramids with some composite 3D shapes as well! It's a fun thing to study!
Science
- Last week we looked at rechargeable batteries and this we are going to keep doing that. We are trying to build an operational definition what a battery is.
Thanks so much for all of your support of Whatcom Middle School!
Sincerely,
Brian MacNevin
No comments:
Post a Comment