This unit of math focuses on multiplication: “Multiplication is repeated addition.” “Multiplication is an efficient way to add.” “Multiplication is skip counting.” “Multiplication is… ” Ask your Temescalians what they understand multiplication to be! This week, we gave the Temescalians the challenge of arranging a set number of chairs into different arrays. We had to […]
We started this week with our first formal foray into multiplication by looking at Catherine Fosnot’s curriculum that goes hand in hand with the Bridges curriculum. She poses big questions that can be explored over a longer period of time. Our introduction to multiplication involved us looking at a poster called “The Grocery Store” that […]
This week may have been a day shorter than usual, but sometimes, shorter weeks feel busier and longer because we need to accomplish the same amount of things in a shorter span of time. In math, we reviewed and practiced using number lines, base ten blocks, and the subtraction algorithm for two digit subtraction. While […]
This past week was short but chock full of learning. Having visited Apple Hill near Sacramento, I had a bounty of apples and we used them as an opportunity to try different treats and have a taste test. I used this recipe from Smitten Kitchen to bake an apple sharlotka (a Russian apple cake). This […]
Last Sunday, our whole community, from ECC to 8th grade families, came together to celebrate the coming of Fall! This yearly festival is full of family friendly activities like making slime (we had a few Temescalian slime educators on hand!), a bouncy house, photo booth, and there was so much to eat. The bbq was […]
