Monday, March 7, 2016

Division and Reasons & Explanations to Support Your Opinion!

Happy Monday Folks!

Here's a quick rundown of happenings going on today:

It was raining so we got into E-8 early and worked on our doubles, double, double strategy for eights multiplication facts!


We actively listened to an E-8 mate giving a presentation!



We collaborated with a partner and utilized our understanding of multiplication facts, repeated subtraction, and  fact families to tackle word problems dealing with division.

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Checking work!

Utilizing one's knowledge of multiplication facts to solve division facts!


Using repeated subtraction to solve division problems!

Providing pictures to help clarify the problem!
We discussed the Love O.R.E.O. acronym to discuss the structure for an opinion paragraph!


We utilized this structure along with the keyword strategy to paraphrase reasons and explanations from the article to support our opinion!

  1.  Read the paragraph/article for a good understanding.
  2. Close-read the paragraph to choose 3 keywords that will help you paraphrase the reason and explanation, in your own words.
  3. Utilize the keywords to write down, in your own words, the info that you've just read!

 And that's the rundown folks! Cheers, and have a good one!