Week of 11/6

Greetings Parents,
 
What's in the Friday Folder?
Tomorrow (Thursday), you're going to find their Exit Tickets for each of the five lessons for Multiplying Whole Numbers Unit. It has my feedback on it. The grades are in Infinite Campus. Attached to the Exit Tickets are Reteach Sheets that will help you know how each lesson was taught to them and give you clarity on the directions of the Exit Tickets.
 
*NEW* Also attached to the Exit Tickets is a page of samples of Extra Practice for each lesson. Your child can improve their grade for those Learning Targets if they complete it accurately and bring it back to me. I know this is hard for some of them, and maybe even hard for you to help them when they feel like "You're not doing it the way the taught it," but my goal is to support you in supporting them as for some students these skills require more practice to master. Please email me if the Reteach Sheets are not clear on the methods we're using to teach multiplication. 
 
What We've Learned

In this chapter, your student learned about multiplication of whole numbers. Your student began by investigating multiplication patterns and estimating products. Then they multiplied to find partial products, regrouped when needed, and added partial products to find a product.

The vocabulary words for this chapter are overestimate and underestimate.

 
How You Can Support the Learning
  • When you go to a theater, ask your student to estimate how many rows of seats and how many seats are in each row. Then ask, “How many seats are there in all?” If a movie theater is a multiplex, ask, “If each theater has the same number of seats, how many seats are in the multiplex?”
  • Grocery shopping provides another opportunity for your student to multiply whole numbers. When you see a display that has the same number of items in each row, ask, “How many items are in the display?” Encourage your student to multiply the number of items in each row by the number of rows to find the answer.
  • Going to a restaurant provides another opportunity to practice multiplying whole numbers with your student. If the restaurant has booths that seat four people, ask, “How many booths are there? How many people can sit in the booths?”

By now, your student should feel confident with the learning targets and success criteria. Encourage your student to think of other real-life situations to use multiplication of whole numbers, such as estimating the number of spaces in a parking lot.

Thanks for checking in and supporting your student in the math growth this year. 
 
And also, I apologize for the late post. This should have been communicated to you last week. I'll try to do "All the Things" better.