Reducing Fractions/Simplifying fractions/Lowest Terms

Reducing Fractions/Simplifying fractions/Lowest Terms all mean the same thing! We want to find the smallest equivalent fraction for our answer that we can.

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with like and unlike denominators

Here is a video to help you remember how to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators.

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Changing an improper fraction into a mixed number

Here is a video to remind you how to change an improper fraction into a mixed number. It will explain what it means and show you a shortcut, as well.

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Changing a Mixed Number to an Improper Fraction

Would you like a refresher on changing a mixed number to an improper fraction? Check this video out!

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RRJ Entry

Tonight for homework, I would like you to do some thinking and some writing about the work you have been doing in your historical fiction book clubs or our class read-aloud My Brother Sam is Dead. Please complete a one-page entry sharing your thoughts. Some of the ideas you might write about could be:

-Setting (Where, when and what is the emotional atmosphere like?)
-Conflict/Tension
-Change (Who or what has changed? Why is this important?)
-Looking closely at character (Their traits, what motivates them, what pressures they face and the problems that exist for them)
-Repetition- What is being repeated and why? What could this mean?
-Themes

Your entry is due tomorrow, February 5, 2015.

Online Scavenger Hunt

See what extra facts you can learn about the 13 colonies during this interactive scavenger hunt! When you have finished the scavenger hunt, don't forget to e-mail Mrs. Woods and let her know the most surprising new thing you learned.

Click here to go to the scavenger hunt

Interactive Map!

Check out this website where you can make you own map! We will use it for social studies today to create an interactive 13 colonies map.

Interactive Map Maker


Use this map to help you locate each colony:

Labeled 13 colonies map