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Good Morning -
Really nice weekend, weather wise. I hope you enjoyed yourself.
In your journal, or on Seesaw, use paragraph form to write about your weekend. Remember, a paragraph is only about one thing, so try not to write a list of all the things you did. If you did a lot, write a short paragraph about each thing you did. When you are done, please edit your work.
Reading -
Vocab:
asparagus - a kind of vegetable
trilling - yelling loudly
retreated - to go back
solitude - being alone
envelop (not envelope - en vell up) - to take over and cover you (After losing her dog, the sadness eveloped her)
In Friday's reading, Wes allowed Jessie to leash and walk the dogs for the first time. She used the Rules of the Ruff, keeping her energy calm and confident, paying attention to her surroundings, and knowing when to leave. She got so good at dog walking, that after 4 days, Wes had her walking 3 dogs at the same time. She was getting so good, Wes said he might let her try to walk Angel again, the pit bull she had trouble with on her first day.
Read Chapter 13 from pages 91 to 95. After reading, answer:
1. What is the fourth Rule of the Ruff?
Afternoon -
After lunch or before bed, read for 15 -20 minutes
Social Studies -
After the United States of America defeated the British in Revolutionary War, they had the tough job of starting a brand new country. The Representatives from the 13 states (The Continental Congress) did not want to have a country like England. England and the British people were ruled by a King. That kind of government is called a Monarchy. In a Monarchy, the King makes all the rules and laws and the people have no say in how things are done. Kings are not voted for either. As you know, the King's first born son (the prince) becomes the King upon his death. So Monarchies can last hundreds of years.
So the Representatives from the 13 states (The Continental Congress) wanted to form a new kind of government. And the kind of government they invented is called a Democracy. In a Democracy there is not one person who makes all the rules, like a king. In our country, under this new government called Democracy we vote for people that will represent what we want our country or state to do.
So as you know, we vote for the President, but we also vote for other representatives that we feel will do what we want done. They could be Governors, Mayors, Senators, or Representatives...And in a Democracy, majority rules. A majority is one more than half. When you vote for President, if more than half of the voters want a person to be president, she or he wins ...In our class of 20, if we voted on something, and if 11 vote one way, and 9 voted the other. The 11 would win by majority.
The Continental Congress wrote all this down in a very famous document called The Constitution of the United States of America.
The Constitution has 2 parts, the part I just told you (how our government works) and the first part called The Preamble. The Preamble are the ideas that The Continental Congress decided on that help to keep our country FREE. You may have heard the first line of The Preamble ...'We The People'
Click on the links below to learn about the first part of The Constitution - The Preamble
https://constitutionkids.weebly.com/preamblelayout--meanings.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKPmobWNJaU
Math -
On Thursday, we learned about Place and Value in Decimal Numbers. This is a quick review of that lesson.
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Decimals are numbers that have a value less than 1. You probably have seen Decimal Numbers before. They are the numbers to the right of a Decimal Point.
They look like this: .7 or .01 or .158 and 98.6
Any number that is to the right of a Decimal Point has a value less than 1.
So to understand Decimals, you have to understand Place and Value of numbers to the right of the Decimal Point.
The first Place after the Decimal Point is called the Tenths Place.
It's like I broke the number 1 up into 10 equal pieces (remember Decimals are like fractions - their Value is less than 1).
So, I will write a Decimal: .2 ( .2 is said 2 tenths, and its Value is 2/10 )
.4 = 4 tenths or 4/10
.9 = 9 tenths or 9/10
The Place that comes after the Tenth's Place is called the Hundredths Place.
It's like I broke the number 1 up into 100 equal pieces
I will write a Decimal to the Hundredths Place: .02 ( .02 is said 2 hundredths and its Value is 2/100 )
.04 = 4 hundredths or 4/100
.09 = 9 hundredths or 9/100
The next place is ... the Thousandths place. You're breaking the whole number 1 into 1,000 equal pieces
.003 = 3 thousandths or 3/1000
Today we are going to make a Decimal Place Value Chart. In your journal label a page Decimals. Then make this chart -
. ___________ , ___________ , ___________
tenths hundredths thousandths
1/10 1/100 1/1000
Now we are going to use the chart. You will need to erase.
First put a 4 in the Tenths Place. Then write down under your chart, .4 = 4/10
Erase the 4 on the chart. Write an 8 in the Tenths Place. Then answer - .8 =
Erase the 8 on the chart. Now on the chart put a zero in the Tenths Place and a 4 in the Hudredths Place.
Then write down, .04 = 4/100
Erase the zero and the 4 from the chart. Write a zero in the Tenths Place and an 8 in the Hundredths Place. Then answer - .08 =
Erase the zero and the 8 from the chart. Now on the chart put a zero in the Tenths Place and a zero in the Hundredths Place, and a 4 in the Thousandths Place.
.004 = 4/1000 (a very small number)
.008 =
Watch this Video lesson on Modeling Decimals. Try to understand that Decimals are similar to Fractions. The big differences are how they are written and Decimals only break the number 1 up into tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFHzovcR2o
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