Friday, September 30, 2016
This Week in 3L
This week, we will be reading Beauty and the Beast. We will be having a reading assessment as well as a spelling test on Friday. Our chapter two math test is also planned for this week.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Author's Purpose
Today, we read two great stories and looked for clues to find the author's point of view.
Questions to Start Great Conversations about School at Home
Looking for something specific to ask your child about school?
Here are a few questions from the week that can start a great family conversation.
What is mental math and why is it helpful?
How do you know to increase or decrease when rounding?
What is a mentor sentence or mentor paragraph?
What is the difference between first person and third person point of view?
What clues can help you to determine if a story is written in first person or third person?
Here are a few questions from the week that can start a great family conversation.
What is mental math and why is it helpful?
How do you know to increase or decrease when rounding?
What is a mentor sentence or mentor paragraph?
What is the difference between first person and third person point of view?
What clues can help you to determine if a story is written in first person or third person?
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
NEW mental math strategy
Afvree came up with a NEW way to use mental math!
In class, we have been using multiple strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with mental math. Students often decompose a number into tens and ones. For example, 96 is the same as 90 and 6.
Other students like to use what we call "Seldin's Strategy" where they recognized that adding 100 then taking away 4 is the same as adding 96.
Today, Ayvree discovered that we can decompose parts of numbers to do mental math! For example, when solving 86 more than 95. Looking at the 86: instead of breaking it into tens and ones she decided to break apart the 6 into 5 and 1. Then she looked at the 95. She broke the 90 into 80 and 10. She knew that 80 (from 86) plus 80 (from 95) is a doubles fact - 160. Then she added the 5 (from the 6 ones in 85) to 95 to get 10. Now she has 160 plus ten more is 170. Lastly, she added the extra 11 that she had left (10 from 95 and 1 from the six ones in 86) to get 181. Great job trying something new!
In class, we have been using multiple strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with mental math. Students often decompose a number into tens and ones. For example, 96 is the same as 90 and 6.
Other students like to use what we call "Seldin's Strategy" where they recognized that adding 100 then taking away 4 is the same as adding 96.
Today, Ayvree discovered that we can decompose parts of numbers to do mental math! For example, when solving 86 more than 95. Looking at the 86: instead of breaking it into tens and ones she decided to break apart the 6 into 5 and 1. Then she looked at the 95. She broke the 90 into 80 and 10. She knew that 80 (from 86) plus 80 (from 95) is a doubles fact - 160. Then she added the 5 (from the 6 ones in 85) to 95 to get 10. Now she has 160 plus ten more is 170. Lastly, she added the extra 11 that she had left (10 from 95 and 1 from the six ones in 86) to get 181. Great job trying something new!
Monday, September 26, 2016
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