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__**Student Activities **__

**__Monday:__** Students will be introduced to fractions  __**Tuesday:**__ Students will learn about the vocabulary terms used with fractions  2. Use Microsoft Word to type up the definitions and print out your finished document and turn it in to the assignment basket. 3. After you are finished with the definitions, visit this [|website] and solve atleast ten of the fraction questions correctly.
 * 1) To begin our lesson, you will watch a video introducing you to fractions. Click [|HERE] to watch the video.
 * 2) After watching the video, you will return to your desk and get ready to learn more about fractions!
 * 3) I will review what was said in the video and provide a few examples of fraction questions that will be on a worksheet to follow. The worksheet will include numerous shapes with different shaded parts and you will be asked to name what fraction is being represented by these shaded areas.
 * 4) I will pass out the worksheet and we will go over each problem as a class so you can fully understand how to solve these types of problems.
 * 5) This worksheet will be kept at home for extra study practice throughout the week.
 * 1) Use this [|website] to locate the definitions of the following fraction vocabulary terms:
 * Fraction
 * Numerator
 * Denominator
 * Equivalent fractions
 * Common denominators
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mixed number
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Improper fraction

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Wednesday:__** Students will use hands-on activities to help better their understandings of fractions <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">** __Friday:__ **Students will exchange index cards with their partner
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I will be distributing one multi-colored candy packet and one mini chocolate bar to each and every student.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Open the candy packet and count the total amount of candies. Take out a piece of paper and write down the total amount of candies and the total amount of each different color in the packet. For example, if you see 3 orange candies, write down "orange - 3" on your paper.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Now it is time to make a fraction using each different color in the packet. Start with your first color. Write the number of that color over the total amount of candies in the packet. Repeat this for each color present in your candy packet.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I will use my own packet of candy and use the Active Board to show you what type of fractions you should be creating.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Next, we will work with the chocolate bar. Your chocolate bar will easily break up into five different pieces, but will always fit back together to make a whole. No matter what fractions you can make using the five different pieces, they will always end up fitting back to the whole. Practice by breaking the pieces apart and and fitting them back together.
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: __** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students will begin to put together their matching fraction index card sets
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today we will be preparing a matching fraction game that will be exchanged with a partner tomorrow.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You will receive twenty index cards. On ten of the index cards you will write out ten different fractions with different denominators and different numerators. On the other ten index cards, you will draw ten illustrations of fractions to match each fraction you've written on the first ten index cards. For example, if the fraction you wish to illustrate is 3/5, you could draw five apples and shade three of them red.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Save these twenty index cards for tomorrow where you will exchange them with a partner.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Choose a partner.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Exchange your fraction index cards with each other and match the ten pairs together correctly.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Once you have matched all of the pairs together, trade back index cards.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Choose two of the matches from your set of cards to present to the class.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You will come up to the front of the room and use the Doc Camera to show the class your chosen matches of fractions and their illustrations.