In the photos you can see how students drew their dragons then we passed around and had another student draw the dragon students described in their actual writing to increase their ability to write descriptively and specifically..
We will now continue to work on our stories. Ask your child about how their sessions went with Cathy Students had the opportunity to work with our Resident Artist and Author Cathy Beveridge. She is a renowned Author and has done a fantastic job helping our explore the fundamentals of story writing. Students are writing a story about Dragons. Students work with a 4 frame planning process. Ask your child about (Dats) and what are some specific they learned from Cathy. Check out her website on all the great Novesl she has written cathybeveridge.com We have been learning how to do Long Division. We started with he old fashion algorithm we all learned in Grade school. We have a mnemonic device to help us remember the steps.
Dad (Divide) Don't forget to put Dad's Dinner on the Table ((Quotient) Mom (Multiply) Sister (Subtract) *-Check your change- Your difference from subtraction can't be the same or larger than your divisor Brother (Bring down) Rover ( Repeat or Remainder) Students have worked diligently to understand the steps and how to check their answers. Quotient X Divisor= Dividen Get your child to show you how well they can long divide |
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