Tuesday and Wednesday will be very active days for us! We have the Armory visit tomorrow and The Native American Nature Walk on Wednesday. Please make sure your child wears comfortable walking shoes. We also hope that the rain predicted for Tuesday will not last till Wednesday. If it rains lightly we will still proceed with our trips.
Test folders with our latest spelling test went home today. Please look through it and review any misspelled words with your child or commend your child for a job well done!
Our place value quiz will have 10 questions. Students will have to change numbers to expanded form to standard form and vice versa. They will also need to tell what is thousands more or less than a given number.
On a different math note, we are focusing on different strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers. We've done the column addition method, which is traditional and the partial sums method. The partial sums method invites the student to add each place value up then add the total of those parts up to get a whole sum. For example: 367+ 45 would be rewritten as 7+5=12, 60+40= 100 and 300+0= 300. Then 300+100+12 would total 412. The advantage to this method is that children would not need to carry any numbers. All students are told to pick the method that works best for them.
