You already knew that multiplication is just repeated addition. So if you add 78 eleven times, you can get the answer to 78x11.
But that is a LOT of adding!
So here's a shortcut. Instead of adding 78 all those times, just multiply 78 times 10. That's easy. It's 78 with a 0 at the end: 780. Ten 78s equals 780.
Finally, add one more 78 to your answer to get eleven 78s.
780 + 78 = 858.
The results are in!
If we fill our marble jar, you've voted to watch "Flushed Away."
Remember, to earn a marble for our jar, you (as a whole class) have to earn a compliment for exceptional behavior. Take a look at our classroom rules and think about which of your behaviors you want to work on improving in order to help our class earn the movie!
Today we shared what we are thankful for. Family, a home, and a great school were by far our most mentioned ideas, although computers, video games, and penguins also got an honorable mention.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving break!
Another way we learned to classify animals is by their limbs/appendages. Some common examples of appendages are legs, tails, fins, and wings. An appendage is any body part that helps an animal move, or move food into its mouth. Both are important for survival.
The difference between appendages and other important body parts is that appendages don't have organs inside. Your head isn't an appendage because it has your brain in it, and your "trunk" isn't an appendage because it has your heart, lungs, and other organs in it.
You learned about the appendages of some animals from different classes. Tadpoles go through a big change in their appendages as they get older and become frogs. Would you rather be a frog or a tadpole? Why?
Today we practiced multiplying with discs instead of pencil and paper. In the example, since you were multiplying 135 x 5, you made 5 piles of each digit.
1. You made 5 piles of 4 blue ones, which equals 20.
2. You made 5 piles of 3 pink tens, which made 15 tens.
3. You made 5 piles of 1 green hundred, which is 5 hundreds.
To complete the problem, you needed to regroup the discs. You know that 10 blue discs is equal to 1 pink ten. You also know that 10 pink tens equals 1 green hundred.
1. First you traded in those 20 blue ones for 2 pink tens.
2. Then you traded 2 pink tens for 2 green hundreds.
The rest is easy! You can see that there are 6 hundreds, seven tens, and 0 ones. So the answer to 134 x 5 = 670.
The place where an animal naturally lives is its habitat. That's a little different from its "house," like a nest, burrow, or den. It's more like the animal's "neighborhood," where it can get food and has to hide from predators.
Here are some animals, and the habitats they live in. If you had to live in one of these habitats, which would it be, and why?
Here are two ways that commas are used in your writing:
1. Put them in a list of things, like "Running, jumping, and playing."
2. Put them before quotation marks, like I begged, "Please let me have the turkey drumstick this year."
Can you write a sentence that has a list of 3 gifts you would love, and use commas correctly?
We are learning about world geography by studying immigrants who have come to live in America throughout history.
We have learned about countries that are on the continents of Asia and Europe, as well as which direction you would travel to get to America.
If you could travel to another country, where would it be, and what continent is it on?
A good story has a message, and some of the most important messages in life can be summed up in a single word.
Have you ever seen a movie, watched a TV show, or read a book that has a clear message?
Do you have a favorite book that has a theme you can relate to?
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