April 14-April 25 Social Studies / Science Well we are moving on to a new teacher, Mrs. Todd, she started in our room on Tuesday. She will be teaching the children geography in social studies and states of matter in science. The kids have already started a project where they have put the continents onto paper to create a map. Through this project they learned words like: hemisphere and equator.
| MATH We are on to our big numbers unit. I am asking parents to please open your minds to new approaches during this unit. We have worked on addition and are in the subtraction portion of the unit. One of the goals of this unit is to have kids see the correlation between addition and subtraction. Many of the kids have discovered that a way to subtract is through using addition, some have stuck to the traditional method, and some are choosing to use partial difference method. It's so neat to see and hear all the different and great thinking that is going on this classroom. We are teaching kids that the traditional method is not always the most efficient. We are asking them to examine each individual problem and really come up with a plan for what would be most efficient before jumping right into the traditional method. If you have internet access available please encourage your child to log onto: frontrowed.com reflexmath.com mobymax.com It would be great if they could get on each of these programs 2x per week form 20 minutes each time! Here are some other websites they can check out: http://www.mathsisfun.com/timestable.html http://www.multiplication.com/ https://www.mathblaster.com/free-game.aspx?pid=googpd&cid=%2Bmultiplication%20%2Bpractice
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