• Good morning! Today is Thursday, April 2nd and it is F Day, so we have Spanish. 

     

    You did a fantastic job with telling time to the hour.  Today we will be learning about how to tell time to the half hour. 

     

    When a clock is showing half past an hour, the minute hand is touching the 6 on the bottom of the clock. But the hour hand has a special place to be. Remember when we learned about the hour hand, I said that the hour hand is pushed along by the minute hand, So when the minute hand is on the 6, it has gone half way around the clock. So the hour hand has to be half way between the hour it is currently and the next hour it will be.  I will explain in the video, 

     

    Math assignment:

    1.Please complete  pages 600-602 in your math book.

    2.Please complete a page in your countdown packet- Countdown 8 weeks.  This sheet focuses on skip counting and operations.

    3.Please use the formative assessment workpage and in box 13 please answer:  What is wrong with the clock.  (The picture I will post on class story will have a clock with the minute hand on the six and the hour hand directly on the 9)

    4.Complete 15 minutes on Fast Math and 17 minutes on Red Bird Math.

     

    Reading:

     

    Today we are going to work in the book, 68 Ways to Save the Planet.  You will finish the book and re-read pages 20-23.

     

    Please write a sentence for each vocabulary word on the Lesson 6 page.  The words are selfish, sponsored, monitor, dragging, cavewoman.

     

    I have assigned you two assignments on Freckle (class code med35s). 

    Please complete 15 minutes on Red Bird Reading.

     

    Writing:

     

    Read for 20 minutes and answer one of the questions provided on the sheet labeled Independent Reading questions in your Writing Journal.  Please provide the title of the book in your writing.  I am looking forward to finding out what you are reading and what you think about those books!