Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Week of August 25

HOMEBASE LANGUAGE ARTS
I have promised the class that if everyone will get their planner signed I will wear my hair in a mohawk for the day.  I'm starting to feel pretty safe since it hasn't happened in a week of promising......  Students need to be reading 100 minutes per week as half of their independent reading grade.  

A TRACK/B TRACK MATH
A and B track are still at the same point in the year's curriculum.  We have been working on different representations of multiplication.  We are using a strategy called partial products.  You can read more about it by clicking HERE.  
HOMEWORK: Continue to work on your basic facts.  A Track students mostly have proficiency in addition, but could benefit from lots of subtraction practice.  B Track students will want to work on basic addition.  See the side bar of the blog for more information.  :)

D TRACK MATH
We are studying basic addition facts and have taken home a study sheet of specific facts for each student to work on.  We will be talking about strategies for multi-digit addition problems in the upcoming days.
HOMEWORK: Work on basic add facts.  Only a few students in D Track are proficient (under 3 seconds per problem).

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