Open House Pt. 2/Week 3 In Review

We have completed our third full week of school! Where does the time go? I apologize for the late post, but I was at the Carver-Spencer game last night! I saw many of my students there, past and present! For those of you who didn't go, Carver won, 34-6. I guess Spencer got a moral victory of sorts, though; they scored a touchdown on offense against the Tigers for the first time in three years! The halftime show was entertaining, as both bands did a tribute to Michael Jackson. The Carver band ended their show with the dance to "Thriller", while the Spencer band capped off theirs with the dance from "Beat It." I think the tradition continues of Carver winning the game and Spencer winning the halftime, but conspiracy theories abound! Who was spying/copycatting on whom? Let the debate begin! At any rate...

I made a slideshow of pictures I took from the Open House this past Thursday (Mr. Shelton took the shots with me in the photos). I hope you enjoy them! The school was PACKED with parents, teachers, and students. I think it was the largest crowd for an Open House that I can remember. Such parental support is truly fantastic, and I cannot thank you parents who came out enough for being there with us that night.

As for my class, this past week we focused on two aspects of the standards we are covering. I noticed that my children were facing a challenge in remembering the differences in finding the number of outcomes related to a given event, and calculating the probabilities of the event happening. They also were still processing the difference between simple events (only one thing is happening) and compound events (more than one thing is happening). When the children see the word "probability", they should remember now that their answer should be in the form of a fraction, decimal or percent (mainly a fraction). If they see the word "outcomes", then their answer should be a whole number, and they should multiply all of the ways to get those outcomes to come up with the solution to the problem. As the week closed, I began to teach them a little about what we will be covering next week, and I challenged them to begin working on their own probability problems, many of which will be on display once they have finished them.

Well, that's all for now! Many thanks to my dear friend and college classmate Lisa Steptoe, for being my inspiration to take all these pictures and make a slideshow out of them!