Our Family Math Night games are intended to help build math fluency & problem solving skills in a fun and engaging way.
At our Family Math Night, you’ll find the rules and instructions for a wide range of math skills games using a variety of different resources, including playing cards and dice. We’ve assembled games for different skill levels ranging from Grades Pre-K through 5, all with an educational math twist.
Come along, to learn how you can help your child develop fluency with math skills, such as addition and multiplication! Bond with your child as you experience the joy of learning through games!
WHERE: ES Hall Grades 2-5
TIME: 4:15pm - 5:30pm
READING
This week, Mystery readers will learn more about the role of the detectives best friend, also known as the sidekick. Readers will notice that often, when talking to the sidekick, the detective solves the mystery. Sometimes the sidekick’s help is intentional and sometimes by accident. Mystery readers will continue to discuss their mysteries. They will notice that their discussions are often predictions and start off with ‘I think this means . . .’ or ‘I think this could show . . .
WRITING
At the beginning of the week, third grade writer’s will choose a seed idea to draft and develop into a speech. Their focus is to convince the listener how their idea will make CAC a better place to be. To be convincing, their writing needs to have evidence. They will gather evidence they already know about their chosen topic and organize it in different ways, figuring out which categories work best for them. It is almost like the work we did with Table of Contents in the non-fiction unit!! Students can then review their evidence and determine where more evidence is needed in order to convince and persuade. Students will work towards collecting examples for their evidence to make their opinions come to life.
MATH
In math this week, third grade mathematicians will review strategies for finding the area of figures and finding new side lengths of a given area. They will apply their knowledge and problem solving skills to determine the areas of rooms in a given floor plan, providing them with a real world connection to this mathematical concept.
Students will continue to find the area of irregular figures by decomposing (or breaking-apart) a figure into two rectangles, calculating the area for each rectangle, and adding the areas together to find the total area for the figure. Another strategy they can use to find the area of irregular figures is to calculate the area of a composite figure (or larger rectangular space) and then subtract the area of the space that isn't actually a part of the figure.
This week also marks the end of Module 4 and as such our Mathematicians will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of area and how area relates to multiplication and addition on the End of Module Assessment. Encourage your student to review their problem sets from Module 4 in preparation and to use the Read, Draw, Write method to show and express their thinking.
In math this week, third grade mathematicians will review strategies for finding the area of figures and finding new side lengths of a given area. They will apply their knowledge and problem solving skills to determine the areas of rooms in a given floor plan, providing them with a real world connection to this mathematical concept.
Students will continue to find the area of irregular figures by decomposing (or breaking-apart) a figure into two rectangles, calculating the area for each rectangle, and adding the areas together to find the total area for the figure. Another strategy they can use to find the area of irregular figures is to calculate the area of a composite figure (or larger rectangular space) and then subtract the area of the space that isn't actually a part of the figure.
This week also marks the end of Module 4 and as such our Mathematicians will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of area and how area relates to multiplication and addition on the End of Module Assessment. Encourage your student to review their problem sets from Module 4 in preparation and to use the Read, Draw, Write method to show and express their thinking.
SCIENCE
This week in Science we bring the unit on Sound and Light to an end.
The project groups with practice their scene and effects before recording it in the AV room. Once it is recorded they will be shown how to use imovie and create their group clip that includes a voice over at the end describing how each of the light and sound effects works using topic relate vocabulary.
The students have really enjoyed being creative with the script and effects and are excited to record, work on and watch their final product.
CIRCLE TIME
Our Circle theme this week is Growth Mindset. Our students are learning that anything they do, can be developed through dedication and hard work. The Growth Mindset creates resilience and a love of learning that is necessary for self motivation and growth.
This week in Science we bring the unit on Sound and Light to an end.
The project groups with practice their scene and effects before recording it in the AV room. Once it is recorded they will be shown how to use imovie and create their group clip that includes a voice over at the end describing how each of the light and sound effects works using topic relate vocabulary.
The students have really enjoyed being creative with the script and effects and are excited to record, work on and watch their final product.
CIRCLE TIME
Our Circle theme this week is Growth Mindset. Our students are learning that anything they do, can be developed through dedication and hard work. The Growth Mindset creates resilience and a love of learning that is necessary for self motivation and growth.
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