Repeating and Terminating Decimals & Ecosystems

Announcements:

• Much fun was had at Halloween!!!
• The Remembrance Day Ceremony will be held on Friday, November 9th. There are opportunities for students to read poetry and participate in the ceremony. If this interests you come see me on Monday.

Math:

This week we continued to focus on division. 

Students learned to model decimal division on number lines. 

They also learned how to convert fractions to decimals using division and the difference between repeating decimals and terminating decimals. 


Science:

We continued to work on our pop bottle ecosystems. We added biotic factors including snails, aquatic plants, and we planted grass seeds.

Students were extremely interested in the snails. They had many questions about the snails including:

• How many different kinds of snails are there?
• Do they get cold?
• What do they eat?
• What kind of animal are they? (family? order?)
• Do snails mate and how?
• Do snails have skeletons?
• What do baby snails look like?
• AND MANY MORE ...

Next week we will read information about snails and answer some of their questions.

We also watched Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" movie and talked about the themes and feelings that arose from watching this movie with a scientific lens and a concern for the world's ecosystems. Students seemed to find the movie inspiring and motivating and got the sense that one person could make a really big impact. We compared the movie to the video we watched about the beach in Mumbai. We will continue to explore how we can individually, as a class, and as a school community make a positive environmental impact.