2-17-17
I just wanted to thank everyone for taking time out of their busy schedules to make it to conferences this week. We still have a lot of the school year left to go but we will not be having anymore conferences this year. Please let me know if you want to touch base about any concerns that you might have as the year continues. I will also do the same. Sometimes it's just good to touch base before summer break to make sure everyone is on the same page. Whether it's a phone call, email, or even meeting before or after school.
This week we pondered the question “What can you learn from signs in your community?” In the humorous fiction story, The Signmaker’s Assistant, a town’s residents learn that they can’t always believe what they read. We also read the play The Trouble with Signs.
Target Vocabulary: assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, wisdom, trouble, cleared
Phonics Skills: Words with r-controlled vowels ar (car)
Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms
Comprehension Skill: Text and graphic features—tell how words work with art
Comprehension Strategy: Question— ask questions about what you are reading
We are off and running with Module 5: Addition and Subtraction within 1,000 and Word Problems to 100. It's basically all the same strategies that we learned in Module 4 only now the problems are just getting more difficult. All the problems will involve 3-digit numbers rather than 2-digit. We will move at a faster pace in Module 5 since none of the concepts are new.
Lesson 1
Objective: Relate 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less to addition and
subtraction of 10 and 100.
Lesson 2
Objective: Add and subtract multiples of 100, including counting on to
subtract.
Lesson 3
Objective: Add multiples of 100 and some tens within 1,000.
Problem 2: 550 + 200, 550 + 250, 550 + 260
Lesson 4
Objective: Subtract multiples of 100 and some tens within 1,000.
Problem 4: 400 – 200, 440 – 200, 440 – 240, 440 – 260
Lesson 5
Objective: Use the associative property to make a hundred in one addend.
Lesson 6
Objective: Use the associative property to subtract from three-digit
numbers and verify solutions with addition.
We were able to complete our flip books on maps this week. I think they turned out well and the kids enjoyed making them. We've talked about how all good maps must have: a title, map key, compass rose, scale or distance, labels, and it helps to have color. Throughout the unit students will use cardinal directions to locate places on a map. They also need to be able to use a map key to locate important features on a map.
