New PodCast Episode – Monica!

Posted by Mr. Marchionda on Nov 4, 2009 in Classroom News, Coming Events, PodCast | Comments Off

Today we recorded our fifth episode of the Marchionda Minutes PodCast. Our guest was Monica. Head on over here to give it a listen.

We are almost finished with our WKCE testing, needing only to finish up three shorter sessions of math. Tomorrow will be our last day of testing.

In social studies we will be beginning a new unit on communities. For this we will be using our text book and other materials. In math we will be testing tomorrow on adding larger numbers. Next week we will be beginning subtraction concepts, then moving into larger subtraction using blocks and expanded notation to express borrowing. I may be inviting parents into the classroom to help out. Look for an invitation in these posts.

Today in math we reviewed for our addition test tomorrow. Below is my coaching. Using Photoshop we did the math together. I would keep my answers on another layer that was invisible to the students. Periodically we would check our work.

Even though I only worked through probelm 19, all 25 are expected to be completed by tomorrow.

Here is the work for the day: