Thank you so much for those of you who joined us for our “Photosynthesis Explained Simply” skits on Friday morning. We combined our learning in science with our fluency practice. It was lovely to have the opportunity to share our learning with you! If you would like to see the video that we based the […]
Full disclosure: It is 2:30pm on Friday, and I’m just now sitting down to write this blog that is due to Carmen, our Communications Director, at the close of the day. As a procrastinator, the adrenaline is all too familiar. Along with my procrastinating peers, I can argue that I do my best work under […]
In math we moved from multiplication into division with the concept of sharing and arranging things into equal groups: cookies, chairs, apples, money, donuts, etc. When drawing our math models we learned to keep things simple, organized, and efficient. We also worked on word problems in which we needed to decipher what operation (addition, subtraction, […]
Coming back from the Halloween festivities and 2 days of meeting with parents, we still managed to pack in a lot of learning and a field trip too! Math Our work in multiplication continued as Temescalians drilled down on the idea that multiplication is repeated addition, and arrays are a way to organize your thinking. […]
All parenting adults will eventually witness their children trying out sarcasm for the first time, attempting to tease as a way to engage socially, and expressing a strong desire to belong by behaving in exclusionary ways. In the process, you might hear comments like these: “Oh dude, I figured this out — no thanks to […]
In math we continue our multiplication work by building arrays in a “Ways to Arrange _____ Chairs” activity. We revisited a favorite math game called Real Estate Math that builds arrays and gets us thinking about the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication. It is also getting us ready for perimeter . . . students […]
