Important Upcoming Dates for April
- Friday, April 7 - Spelling Test Lessons 81-85
- Apr 12th - School Council 6:30 pm
• Apr 14th – Good Friday – no school
• Apr 17th – Student-Led Conference
Math on Fantastic Friday
We have been working on number of the day this week. It is a great strategy for expanding our understanding of number sense. Here is an example of what it can look like. It gives students a way to practice multiple ways to work with a particular number. A new number is picked everyday. You can practice this at home with your parents. Another category to add to this when you talk at home about numbers is: Where in the world would I find this number of things? For example I might find 615 students in a middle school. Or 615 dollars in my bank account. Or 615 paintings in a gallery or 615 cattle on a ranch. We have also been challenging ourselves to understand how fractions and division are connected . Below is a picture of how we can divide the number 368 in half. Or, another way to look at is 368 divided by 2: You can see that we have modeled how to divide this numbe...
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