Week of September 14

September 15

Over the course of this week and next students should be coming home with homework most nights for math.  The fifth grade classes will continue work on math fact fluency, and the sixth grade will have some content homework from the book and will start fact fluency tomorrow (Wednesday).  I've added some links in the resources about the importance of fact fluency as mathematical ideas become more challenging.  You can begin checking your child's Schoology account through his/ her account. On the left side of the screen in each course is a grade book.  Missing assignments will show up not having a score of 1-4.  I'll be uploading my homework rubric later this week to Schoology so you can pair the number to performance on homework (a 3 is meeting the expectations).

This week the 6th grade classes are working with factor strings and prime factorization for numbers.  We will be building on the knowledge from last week's work with multiples and factors, but we will move toward more efficient strategies, and using a numbers prime factorization will be one of those approaches.  Students will have some choice this week as to their starting point based on their comfort with the content.

The 5th grade classes will begin working more intensively on multiplicative thinking, with a focus on flexible thinking in solving multiplication problems.  Varied approaches will be offered, though groupings and instruction in class will be facilitated by me as I continue to look at growth through classwork and each student's exit question at the end of class.

As always if you have any questions feel free to contact me by email.  eeley@wwsu.org

-Eric