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-Monday Feb 6th Early Start Begins! To make up for all those snow days, school will be starting at 8:00a -Thursday Mar 2nd, NEW EL NIGHT! Due to the snow days, we have changed EL night to March 2nd. This is to make sure all the crews have enough time to finish our expedition final products. Donation Requests: -disinfecting wipes -paper towels Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -book report reader's responses will be sent home on Tuesday, due back the following Tuesday -math facts flash cards Math During our short week, we continued to learn about how multiplication can be represented. We finished creating our giant multiplication table chart. It shows the arrays of all the problems from 0-10. Once we finished the chart, we looked at patterns and discovered tricks to remember times table rows. We discussed the 1x, 2x, 7x, and 10x rows. Then, we discussed how to thoroughly solve a word problem. Many of us were not showing our work or making our answers clear, so we went over the different steps to solving story problems. They include identifying the key information, writing down what the problem is asking you to do and how to solve it, solving it, checking your work, and labeling your answer and putting it in a sentence. Listen to your student describe the process of creating our giant multiplication table Ask your student to explain the patterns and names we came up for the 1x, 2x, 7, and 10x rows Extend the learning by creating story problems together and going through the steps for solving them Literacy This week, we focused in on story elements. On Monday we got to watch the Pedro Power play and afterwards we discussed the setting, characters, and plot (beginning, middle, and end). We have also been practicing doing the same for our new read aloud book Upside Down Magic for each of the different chapters that we have been reading. In the coming weeks, we will continue to practice this with our read aloud as well as the individual books we are choosing to read. Listen to your student explain what the setting and plot of a story is Ask your student to describe our read aloud book Upside Down Magic (we love this book!!) Extend the learning by reading a book together at home and identifying the setting, characters, and plot Expedition During this short week, we put the finishing touches on our bridge writing and art pieces. We also reviewed bridges by playing Jeopardy! We didn't get to finish our game, so we are going to look forward to doing that this upcoming week. Listen to your student list the different bridge words they have thought of from A-Z Ask them to describe how it was playing Jeopardy Extend the learning by practicing drawing bridges together as a family Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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