We had a great workshop with Ms. Brigitte today on creating a bibliography/work cited. We will put this extremely important skill to use when we are finishing up our research on our ‘What’s the Matter’ project. Need a reminder, watch here!
Over the last few weeks the students have been working hard on mastering the Standard Algorithm for multiplication. We will be having a short quiz on Monday, January 23rd, as a check-in before moving on to long division.
Here are some of the strategies we’ve been practicing so far that students have found helpful:
Every student received a review package in their homework this week. They can also access MANY review worksheets here. IXL continues to be a great place for review, and tasks specifically related to multiplication have been assigned.
With a multiplication quiz on the horizon (more information shared on Monday), here are some thoughts and resources about multiplication.
I highly recommend watching this webinar (it’s about an hour long) for some ideas about how you can talk about the facts to help your child learn those trickier ones.
Here are some strategies from the book Math Hacks by Vanessa Vakharia (if you follow the link, there are some suggestions for online sites and games for practice).
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If you have any questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you! Happy multiplying!
How do we understand hard words when reading a story?
Last term we spent some time on important strategies, how to understand new vocabulary words when reading a text. This strategy teaches the students to rely on the content and Shoresh (root letters) to understand the stories they read.
Shoresh (root letters)– Looking for a small word in a bigger word (words from same family).
Content– Read the sentence before and after and look for words that you know, rely on the content to understand the meaning of what you read.
We call this strategy Moshe (מ.ש.ה), in Hebrew every letter stands for a different strategy that we use. We call him our helper, the students even drew a character to represent him 🙂
We were so lucky to participate in 2 ‘Hour of Code’ workshops over the last two weeks. We worked with the kind folks from Accenture to go through some basic algorithms using block code.
Our second workshop, was led by Bryan L. Miller, Sr. Director of Global Strategic Outreach. He guided students through a mini-lesson on computer science, shared how the Blockly platform works with their Virtual Dash robot and did a mini activity.
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