Division- A Tale of Two Methods

Here are two great movies that explain the place value sections and expanded notation method for division!

3rd Mystery Skype

We have completed our third Mystery Skype this week!  When I was contacted by the teacher in Illinois I thought to myself, oh this is going to confuse them a bit being so close to home.  But our class did great.  We were organized with our maps and very focused on discovering where they lived.  We managed to guess their state in only a couple of questions!

The funny part of the Skype was when the other class asked where we were from, they didn't ask are you in Wisconsin.  They asked "ARE YOU PACKERS FANS?"  We all had a good laugh about that one. Especially if you remember the last football game between the Bears and the Packers!!

Multiplying 2 digit by 2 digit numbers

There is a very good video explaining 2 digit times 2 digit numbers using the area model at Learn Zillion.  Go to www.learnzillion.com and use the code LZ1879 to view the 2 digit times 2 digit movie.

Here is another movie about multiplying 4 digit numbers times one digit numbers, also at www.learnzillion.com  .  Use the code LZ1878 to view the 4 digit times one digit movie

Multiplying 1 x 2 Digit Numbers

14th Goldfish GRA

We are reading 'The 14th Goldfish' in class as part of the Global Read Aloud.  All over the world, students are sharing and discussing their thoughts while reading this engaging book.  Our class has been doing some drawing while listening to reading.  Friday we put these drawings together with some of our favorite dialogue from the story using the Chatterpix app on the Ipads.  Loads of fun, check it out!

Fabulous Surprise Birthday today

Today we had a big surprise birthday for Ryane!  Check out this special movie that his dad made for him!! We all thought it was pretty awesome, and I don't even know any of these guys!

Sincerely,
Ms.McLean

Group Challenge #2 SAVE FRED!

Friday after our end of unit math test we had another group challenge.  This challenge was to work with a partner to save Fred.  Fred was a gummy worm who had been out boating (clear cup) but had capsized.  Unfortunately he had forgotten to wear his life vest which was trapped underneath the boat (don't ever do that!).  Here is a picture of how each group began the challenge.

Fred is on top of his boat but the life saver is trapped underneath!  OH NO!

Students were given 4 paper clips and were not allowed to touch Fred, the boat, or the lifesaver.  They had to work together to get the life vest out from under the boat and then put Fred into the life vest.  Not as easy as it sounds!  However all groups were successful and here are some pictures from our challenge.....