Today students showed the videos they made with their vocabulary words. We discussed what was good about each one and what they could improve. We will do this about once a month. I hope this will teach the students a new skill and help teach them the vocabulary words even better. Students discussed simple sentences, complex sentences and compound sentences in our Language Art books. In math we reviewed our multiplication strategy of partial products. We learned that one way to multiply 42 x 38 is first to decompose the numbers and end up with (40 + 2) x (30 + 8) Then we taught them the foil method, which is multiply the first numbers in each parenthesis, 40 x 30= 1200, then the outside two numbers 40 x 8 = 320, next the two inside numbers 2 x 30 = 60, finally the last two numbers 2 x 8=16. You get four different partial products and then add those products together and you have the answer. The "FOIL" stands for the order first, outside, inside and last.
Remember the Young Ambassadors are coming on Friday. For those with children who love music, or you want them to love music, this might be the way to get them interested.
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