Students began taking notes on their subtopic webs this week. Each day they are learning a new strategy for taking notes. We focused on taking notes as fact fragments versus writing complete sentences. This takes a lot of practice. It is easy for students to begin to copy sentences from their books. We work with them to turn the information they read into their own words and write them as fragments.
Math
We started Unit 4 this week. Students learned how to create place value drawings. They used these drawings to help them solve place value word problems. Each student created an Educreations lesson in which he/she wrote his/her own place value word problem and solved it. You can check out the word problem your child created on his/her iPad. Students used Secret Code Cards to practice naming the digits in a number and identifying each digit's value. They also learned how to write numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form.
standard form: 1, 725
word form: one thousand seven hundred twenty five
expanded form: 1,000 + 700 + 20 + 5 OR 1 thousand + 7 hundreds + 2 tens + 5 ones
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