Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Division

Many of you have asked how you can support your student’s learning at home.  Here is an important way you can do that.
 
Go to www.learnzillion.com.  LearnZillion is a website that provides teachers and parents with video lessons showing what your student needs to learn each year.  The lessons include a 3-5 minute long lesson video, downloadable slides, and other resources for practice and assessment.

Divide two-digit dividends using friendly multiples


 

Report remainders as whole numbers by drawing pictures to decide whether to round up or down

 
 

Divide four-digit dividends

 

Quotient Cafe

Come join your friends at the Quotient Cafe, where all the food is served family style. Everyone sits at one table and shares the meal evenly. Use your division skills to figure out how much each character gets. Design your own situation with dinosaurs dividing waffles, penguins sharing apples, or many other situations.

 
 
 
 
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Week of December 1st

Writing

  • Take community profile graphic organizer and transfer into individual sentences
  • Use sentences to complete an informational paragraph

Reading

  • Review greed and generosity.  Read the Junior Great Books story, Prot and Krot
  • Re-read Prot and Krot to mark the text where the characters make either a good decision or a bad decision
  • Identify the theme in Prot and Krot

Math

  • Apply place value understanding to convert metric units
  • Use multiplicative reasoning to convert units of time
 
This video has several links to videos that explain how to solve multiplication problems using various methods.

Multiplication Games













 
 
 
Measurement and Data Games