Hi everyone,
I hope you had a lovely weekend with your family. Here are the updates for the upcoming week: Writing Celebration: Opinion Picnic We will be wrapping up our Opinion Unit this week, and students will have a chance to write a new letter with some more freedom about what they write about (it doesn't just have to be about books this time 😊). Since we're at the end of our unit, we will be having our writing celebration: The Opinion Picnic on Friday, May 22nd at 3:00 via Zoom (this will be our class meeting for the week). The students will take turns sharing their letters with the class, and we'll celebrate all their hard work. They can choose to share the new letter they write this week (on their favorite movie, book, or video game), or they can share the one on a book that they've been working on the past few weeks. For the Opinion Picnic students should take their letter, a blanket, a snack, and weather (and wifi) permitting head outside! Opinion Picnics are just as fun inside as well, so no pressure to actually have your student get setup outside if that isn't feasible for them. As with all our Zoom meetings, details will be sent out via SeeSaw announcements on Friday morning. Module 5 Assessment This week students will be taking their Module 5 End of Module assessment. It will be a multipage activity on SeeSaw. If you have a printer at home, there will be a link to print the test if you'd prefer- or students can work on a blank piece of paper if they'd rather not work on the template. Students should of course do this task on their own, however parents may help read questions if necessary (although students can hit play on each of the different pages to listen to the directions themselves). This could be a long task for some students, so if they need to take a break and finish it a different day, they absolutely can- they just need to make sure to save their progress as a draft. Students should try their best and make sure to show their work, and as I mentioned last week- all assessments can only improve their grade, not hurt it. Zoom Groups I will occasionally be offering drop in help for students or small group instruction for students on Zoom. This week I will have my first drop in help session on Zoom. If your student would like extra practice, or needs extra help with vertical form they can drop in to my Zoom Vertical Form Help session on Wednesday, May 20th from 3:00-3:40. This is completely optional and students can drop in at anytime to ask questions/review concepts. Details will be sent out via SeeSaw. Student of the Week and Featured Mathematicians Our Student of the Week this week is Rogan! Rogan is a rockstar, always cheerful, and does an amazing job turning in quality work every week. Keep it up, Rogan! Our Featured Mathematicians who solved our math challenge by 3:00 on Friday are: Amani, Carter, Christian, Evan, Ollie, Lilly, Luna, Mary, Natalie, Oliver, and Rogan. Way to go marvelous mathematicians! Math Tip: Vertical Form, New Groups Below, and Decomposing As I know many of you already know, our Eureka math curriculum uses pretty different language than what you probably heard growing up. This comes up quite a bit when we're working with adding and subtracting with vertical form. Vertical form is what our curriculum calls the standard algorithm, where the numbers for adding or subtracting are stacked on top of each other instead of written horizontally. For adding, when making a new 10 or 100, students write a new group below by drawing a 1 in their ten's or hundred's column on the line beneath the numbers. It's written on the line so that students can easily add their units together going down the line. For subtraction, a word we use is decompose for breaking apart a 10 or 100 to get more units to subtract. Decomposing is essentially the same concept as "borrowing". We use the word decomposing instead of borrowing so students can tie it to their understanding of place value, and so they understand exactly where they got those 10 extra ones or 10 extra tens- from breaking apart/decomposing a 10 or 100. Since students are still getting used to vertical form, decomposing goes on the top for subtraction and new groups below go on the bottom line. That way students can keep the two operations separate. Here's to a great week! -Miss Sonneland
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