Last week was an incredibly full week--just beside myself busy. You all know how that feels!
And to add to the mayhem, I was away at the North Carolina Educational Technology Conference in Greensboro on Wednesday and Thursday. I cannot express to you what an amazing conference this is... you'll have to check out their website and read some of the session descriptions. This trimester I am actually considered as part of the "admin" staff in the middle school--and my focus is technology. I am blessed with the gift of time in the afternoons to learn about and offer workshops for other middle school staff members on technology. This conference was a way for me to keep my thumb on the pulse of what's happening. The newest buzz in the educational technology world? GoogleDocs. :) You should check it out if you've got some time.
Anyways, last week your children worked heavily on place value of decimals, adding & subtracting decimals, and multiplying decimals. The latter they actually worked on with Lisa Ray, parent of a CFS students, while I was at the conference. Lisa helped introduce the kids to sales tax and tipping which has launched us into a conversation about percentages and world currencies. Exciting stuff!
This week will see a move to dividing decimals... and onto our test next week before break on all of the decimal stuff we've done.
Whew! Enjoy and have a lovely evening!
