Thursday, 17 November 2016

November 17

This morning we had a presentation from the Canyon Meadow's Girls choir.  They did a beautiful job.

During Writer's Workshop we discussed what it means to make a positive first impression.  We brainstormed for ideas as to when making a good first impression would be really important.  We then related this to reading and writing.  We know that as writer's we need to make a good first impression to catch our reader's attention so they will read our work.  Here are the different ways that we are going to practice making a good first impression in our writing.
How to make a good first impression when writing:
1. Onomatopoeia - repeat a word
2. Start with a question?
3. Sound word
4. Start with a fact.
5. Start with a dialogue
6. Start with an action

During Math we brainstormed for strategies for solving 3 digit numbers.  A couple of strategies that we thought of were using expanded notation and stacking the numbers.  For example:

326+142
300+100=400
20+40 = 60 
6+2 =8
400+60+8 = 468

We also worked on stacking.
   326
+142
  468

Please practice 3 digit addition at home.

At the end of the day we finished our google slides presentations.  They were awesome and I am so proud of everyone for their hard work.

Have a wonderful evening.


1 comment:

  1. Hi Ms Sloan,
    Can you please show an addition example where one of the columns adds up to more than 10?
    We are working on a problem (329+413) and I have no idea how to explain that we have to carry the 1 to the 10's column using this method. Or is this more advanced than the questions you have been working on? Thanks!

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