Wednesday

We finished our fluency testing today. When you come in for Parent/Teacher Conferences, we will discuss this. We learned about "Point of View" in language arts and took a pre-spelling test. Students had a new experience in math today. We are learning to add differently. Just as an example, if you were to add 272 and 59, you would look for easy to add numbers. So you might (there are many options) take one away from the 322 and end up with 321. Then move that extra 1 over to 59 and you have 60. 60 is a friend, or easy to add number. Then you would "decompose" 371 to 300 + 20 + 1. Then add your 60 to the 20 in the tens place. You would end up with 300 + 80 + 1. Those are easy to add numbers and the answer would be 381. You can break numbers up in many different ways. It will take a bit of work to understand, but we can do it