Students are continuing to practice their multiplication and subtraction fluency. With a partner, they rolled two 20 sided dice and multiplied the 2 numbers together using the area model. Then they subtracted their answer from 1,000. Whoever gets to zero first is the winner. This game has been helping students with their basic multiplication facts as well as regrouping when subtracting. Parents, please help your child learn their basic multiplication facts as they are essential for all of our math units.
Spelling Bee Practice
To help students get ready for our upcoming classroom spelling bee next week, they have been working with the 5th grade spelling bee words this week. I had them do some word sorts with the spelling bee words earlier in the week, and then in the middle of the week Miss Carlock came into our room and ran a mock spelling bee. Most of the students will be participating in our classroom spelling bee which is taking place on February 9th. Thank you to Miss Carlock for all of her help! On Friday, I had the students practice writing some of the spelling bee words with their opposite hand. If they are left handed, they had to write the words with their right hand; and if they are normally right handed, they had to write the words with their left hand. It was a great way for them to really concentrate on each letter of the words they were writing.
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