Fall Break is over!  Sadface!!!  Oh well, it will be good to see the kiddos on Monday morning.  I hope you had a great week.  I fit in a good amount of retail therapy :) and some knitting to boot. I haven't knit anything in along while: it was good to give my hands a workout.  I decided I would knit a sweater for my little fur-boy, Luke.  He will be a year old in a couple of days.  I got him last December when he was just a 2 pound puppy.  I have waited till now to knit him something because I wanted him to be done growing.  With cool weather just around the corner, a sweater for him was on my to-do list.  I can't resist but to share some pics of Luke in his new duds.

He is great help when it comes to grading papers.  NOT!  He likes to walk all over them, but he does make for great company.  I love my little Luker!!  <3

Enough about Luke!  On to the important stuff.

My objectives for this week are to cover multiplying and dividing mixed numbers.  I decided to skip adding and subtracting mixed numbers for now.  At this point, I do not think I will teach the process of adding and subtracting mixed numbers, but discuss it and show students how to do it using a calculator.  This is all due to the fact that I feel behind. ugh.  I hate that feeling.

A good thing about multiplying and dividing mixed numbers is that I will make Monday and Tuesday's assignment from the text book. YAY!!  On Monday for homework, students will be assigned Pg. 114 #14-20.  On Tuesday, Pg. 132 #12-19. 

Wednesday, students will spend time working word problems that have mixed numbers.  I'm looking forward to this day.  To add a little spice to the word problems, I am going to use QR codes.  I did not use QR codes at all last year, and I'm not even sure why.  Anywho, I'm definitely going to use them this week.  I used problems that were in the book, the additional examples in the margin of the teacher's edition, and some problems from one of the problem solving masters for classwork and homework problems. Here's the Classwork Problems.  I made the problems so students would cut them out and glue them into their journals. Here's the assignment.

I have decided to give 9 weeks test this year.  On Friday students will be taking their 9 weeks test.  Thursday, I will spend time reviewing with students.

Well, I think that does it for this entry.  I hope you have a great week.  Please let me know if there is anything that I can help you with.

~Jenn