Week of October 27, 2014: Homework

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Math Review unit 5	Math Unit 5 test	Math workbook 6.1	Math workbook 6.2	Math workbook 6.3
Reading Super Storms	Reading   Super Storms	Reading Super Storms	Reading  Super Storms	Reading Comprehension test	You may link to the textbook on line
sign here	sign here	sign here	sign here	sign here	Children must read aloud 5 minutes every day. Please sign that reading has been done.
Spelling 5x each	Spelling vocabulary flash cards.	Spelling ABC order study spelling words	Spelling study spelling words	Spelling spelling test	You May link to spelling city from here.
Language/ Write each spelling word in a sentence	Language/ .Study High Frequency words	Language/ vocabulary search: Matching	Language	Language/ Vocabulary definition test	Language/ access HF from spelling city
Social Studies	Social Studies	Social Studies	Social Studies	Social Studies
Basic words 1. dish 2. shine 3. than 4. chase 5. chest 6. white 7. such 8. while 9. thin   10. these	11. push 12. flash Review 13. which 14. then Challenge 15. catch 16. thumb 17. think 18. thick 19. thanks 20. thunder	High Frequency Words  (must be able to read, test every Thursday) 1. before   2. my 3. eye     4. open 5. few    6. people 7. happy	5. few    6. people 7. happy   8. starts 9. high   10. yellow	Target Vocabulary 1. beware 2. pounding 3. damage 4. prevent 5. bend 6. reach 7. flash 8. equal	Check out our blog for latest class information:  http://fierros2nd.blogspot.com Texas Journeys    press this to view and hear our reading story. Target Vocabulary : must be able to define: see flashcards

Composing and Decomposing Numbers

Parents,

Many are seeing your child's math homework and scratching your head in wonder saying, "What is going on?"  The regular math problem of :  7     
                                            + 8
Is now something really unusual, but before we begin, lets review how we usually add.

Well the regular way of adding would have been:

• Add on,  to 7 we would add 8,9,10,11,12,13,14, 15
• Add on our fingers..... ... or dots
• or draw 7 sticks and 8 sticks IIIIIII IIIIIIII
• OR SIMPLY MEMORIZE OUR ADDITION FACTS...really?
• in the past, in our classroom we used adding bears, cubes, ten sticks and hundred plates.
• recent past we used the learn the doubles facts: 1+1, 2+2, 3+3  etc and from there we:
• transition to adding 1 or subtracting 1 when you have a "double plus 1 such as 4+5" 
• the terms you learned and I of ; "borrowing, carrying and recently regrouping", have been layer aside.

Along with lots of "drill and kill" handouts, we are assuming that your child will add and subtract so much that they will learn to add, efficiently, quickly and accurately by 3rd grade.

It's not working for all our children...

A new method called constructing and deconstructing a problem is now the "new" method of teaching addition and subtraction.  In a nutshell:

Let's go back and add 7+8

1. first we switch the numbers around to 8+7
2. then we make 8 into a 10, how by knowing how to "make a ten", we take 2 from 7 and that leaves us 5
3.     8 +  2  +  5  
4.      10 +  5  =  15     
5. Seems like a lot, but research shows that 2nd graders grasp this concept with ease.  

Want try another?

Add 6+8

1. first we switch the numbers around to 8+6
2. then we make 8 into a 10, how by knowing how to "make a ten", we take 2 from 6 and that leaves us 4
3.     8 +  2  +  4  
4.      10 +  4  =  14    

Parents, in order for this to work we need to practice making "10's"

1+9 = 10,  2+8= 10,  3+7= 10, 4+6= 10, 5+5= 10, 6+4= 10, 7+3= 10, 8+2= 10, 9+1= 10

I am currently looking for  links that further explain constructing and deconstructing  math problems and I will post them later...

Mr. Fierros

Week of October 20, 2014: Homework

Week of October 20, 2014: Homework

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Math workbook 5.3	Math workbook 5.4	Math workbook 5.5	Math test	short schedule
Reading  Super Storms	Reading    Super Storms	Reading  Super Storms	Reading   Super Storms	Reading Comprehension test	You may link to the  textbook on line
sign here	sign here	sign here	sign here	sign here	Children must read aloud  5 minutes every day. Please  sign that reading has been done.
Spelling 5x each	Spelling vocabulary flash cards.	Spelling  ABC order study spelling words	Spelling study spelling words	Spelling spelling test	You May link to spelling city from here.
Language/ Write each spelling word in a sentence	Language/  .Study High Frequency words	Language/  vocabulary search: Matching	Language	Language/  Vocabulary definition test	Language/  access HF from spelling city
Science air and weather	Science air and weather	Science air and weather	Science air and weather	Science air and weather	science
Basic words 1. dish  2. shine 3. than  4. chase 5. chest  6. white 7. such  8. while 9. thin   10. these 11. push 12. flash	Review 13. which 14. then Challenge 15. catch 16. thumb	High Frequency Words  (must be able to read, test every Thursday) 1. before  2. my 3. eye     4. open 5. few    6. people 7. happy   8. starts 9. high   10. yellow	Target Vocabulary : must be able to define: see flashcards 1. beware 2. pounding 3. damage 4. prevent 5. bend 6. reach 7. flash 8. equal		Check out our blog  for latest class information:  http://fierros2nd.blogspot.com Texas Journeys    press this  to view and hear our reading story

*Please make sure that your child has earphones , so they can use the computer during lab time.