Okay, slight change of plans with Math: We have some students that just aren't getting the whole "reducing fractions" thing. We watched a couple of videos to try to make it easier when we were working on this and they still weren't getting it. I also found this video online after school which breaks it down once again for those who still don't get it.
My plan is to give the kids a quiz over this tomorrow because we've been over it so many times and we just can't wait around any longer, so if you want to try to go over this homework with your children tonight, that would be great. The quiz will be only over simplifying fractions. I told the kids that when they get back from Thanksgiving break, there will be no monkeying around at all because we really need to get that test in before winter break.
If you could please go over the homework with them and make sure they understand it, that would be a huge help from my end.
I told them, like my Sensei in karate says, "It's not that you're bad people. It's not that you're not smart. It just means you're like a pot of soup and you need a little longer to cook."
ALSO: I forgot to give the kids their comma worksheets before they went home. My bad! It's in their assignment notebooks, but they don't have it.
ALSO: They should have their essays with them tomorrow. In fact, they never should have taken them home, but just in case they are at home, they really need to have them with them tomorrow. We will do type them up in the computer lab tomorrow, and there will not be any time for them to call home and for you to drive them to Woodbrook in time. Computer lab is first thing in the morning, so I told them that if their essay isn't here first thing, they are going to have to figure out what to do on their own! Yikes!
ALSO: Remember the cartoon biography book reports are due on Wednesday!
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