This Week in LL38....

And the Winner is....

After weeks spent reading, writing, and discussing the books for our Battle of the Books, we finally have a winner!  The kids started voting last week and narrowed it down to The Stranger and The Can Man. They had lots of fun thinking about the books that were facing off against one another for each round.  There was a clear winner though!  The Can Man won with a vote of 17 to 1!   

The board with the CHAMPION book!

The Can Man won with a vote of 17 to 1!

We are "ZEARN"ing a lot in Math!

We started using a new math website called Zearn during math last week.  Zearn is a website that follows the Engage NY curriculum that we use.  The website allows the kids to work at their own pace through a lesson.  The program knows when the student doesn't understand a concept and provides more support in that area.  This allows me to work more with small groups and work helping the kids to apply the concepts that they are learning.

As of now we are still trying it out to see how it goes, but during our first week students were engaged and challenging themselves.

The website is www.zearn.org.  Each student has a username and password.


Partial Product Multiplication

Last week the students were learning about Partial Product Multiplication.  The example on the left is an example of what your child learned last week.  We will soon move onto the Area Model for multiplication as well.  

I hope everyone has a great week!

~Jen