5th Grade Math: Delving into double digit by double digit multiplication, students worked with different strategies that they learned last year and worked to make those strategies more efficient. Don't worry, we'll be getting to the standard algorithm shortly, but please hold off on showing it to them. We have a few more steps to take in order to build understanding around what's going on in the process.
6th Grade Math: Working with greatest common factor (GCF) and lowest common multiple (LCM), students strove to determine when either of these were important to use in order to solve problems. They took a quiz on Friday to demonstrate their understanding.
Science: The week started with a rousing ecosystem game that attempted to simulate a closed ecosystem. There are some photos on the science page that you should check out. Then we simulated a food web as you can see in the photos below. On Friday, we ran a computer simulation of a food web. Lots of questions you can ask your kids about this.
6th Grade Math: Working with greatest common factor (GCF) and lowest common multiple (LCM), students strove to determine when either of these were important to use in order to solve problems. They took a quiz on Friday to demonstrate their understanding.
Science: The week started with a rousing ecosystem game that attempted to simulate a closed ecosystem. There are some photos on the science page that you should check out. Then we simulated a food web as you can see in the photos below. On Friday, we ran a computer simulation of a food web. Lots of questions you can ask your kids about this.