Thursday, March 23rd

Thank you for coming to Student-Led Conferences!  It was so wonderful to see everyone so engaged in discussions about learning and hear the students speak so reflectively about their progress.

We began working to add mixed numbers representing tenths and hundredths.  Students are using the same strategies that were used in term 4.  They first have to create a like denominator by multiplying or dividing by 10.  From there, the whole numbers are added together, and the fractions.  If the fraction is improper, wholes are taken away from the fraction and given to the whole number.

Students completed their simple machines assessment this afternoon.  Next week, we will have our assessment over The Oregon Trail, the California Goldrush, and the invention that helped change our nation.  We will also have one more math assessment next week.

Thanks for all that you do!