This week we will be starting Topic 7: Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers.  Your child will be multiplying larger numbers using arrays, mental math, rounding to estimate, and also using compatible numbers to estimate.  By using estimation in the course of everyday experiences and family activities, you can help your child understand estimation. 

Help your child understand that, when shopping, he or she can use estimation to figure out how much an item will cost. For example, if T-shirts cost $12 each, have your child estimate the cost of 4 T-shirts.

Parents,

Thank you so much for supporting this year’s North Schuylkill Spartan Fun Run! The program was a huge success, and I know everyone had so much fun! There’s just one more thing left to do.

We need your help collecting all our pledges. As a class, we raised $1864.50 - our goal is to collect 100% of all pledges by 02/01/2018.

Pledges can be paid by credit card online on funrun.com, cash, or check.

All sponsors that included their email address when making a pledge will receive an email reminder and instructions to pay their pledge. Please reach out to those sponsors who did NOT include their email address to let them know they can send cash or check to you, which will then be sent to school in your child’s collection envelope (coming home soon)!

Finally, please encourage your student to thank all their sponsors for helping our school!

Thank you again for your support! Let me know if you have questions.

Parents, 
Thank you again for supporting our school through the North Schuylkill Spartan Fun Run! Our goal is to raise $10,000 for field trips, education programs, and fun day, and we need your help!  

This weekend we are issuing a special challenge. Visit funrun.com to see the bonus prize your child can earn simply by getting a total of $2 per lap in new pledges (or $60 in flat donations) this weekend only.
And if you’re looking for an easy way to ask for a pledge, create your very own Student Star Video by uploading a photo of your student to funrun.com. It’s a fun movie trailer starring your child! You can share it on email or social media to ask for a pledge.
Thank you again for helping our class!

                               PS - If you haven’t registered your child on funrun.com, search "North Schuylkill."

This week we began Topic 5-Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers.  We are also practicing our 0-9 facts.  In this topic we will learn methods to multiply two-and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers.  By looking for patterns in multiplication facts, he or she can also multiply multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers using mental math.  Here are some sample patterns that your child is learning:
               
      4 x 5 = 20                        6 x 8 = 48 
      4 x 50 = 200                     6 x 80 = 480
      4 x 500 = 2,000                6 x 800 = 4,800

You can look for homework this week on Topic 5, Lessons 3, 4, and 5.  Also, fact corrections will be due on Wednesday and we will have a fact quiz that day as well.

Please complete the interest survey by December 20th for our PBIS team.  Thanks!

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In Math, we are currently working on Topic 4-Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers.  We are learning to add and subtract with and without rounding.  Rounding is used to find values that are close to a correct answer.  Rounding is a useful skill to check if an answer is reasonable.  Your child will get a lot of practice doing "mental math" either by solving an addition problem or a rounded version without paper and pencil.  Some of the new vocabulary terms you may hear your child using are compensation, counting on, breaking apart, Commutative Property of Addition, Associative Property of Addition, Identity Property of Addition, and also inverse operations.

End of October News:

We have had a very busy month celebrating Homecoming Week, Red Ribbon Week and also by having our Fall Celebration, AR Reward, and the end of the month PBIS Reward! Wow!  We have also been working hard in math class by continuing to practice our multiplication facts and finishing Topic 2-Generating and Analyzing Patterns.  This past week we have started Topic 1-Multiplication and Division-Meanings and Facts. Your child will be reviewing multiplication and division and exploring the ways they are related. This relationship can be shown with fact families, such as these:
                                         4x7=28                        7x4=28
                                         28÷7=4                        28÷4=7
A fact family is made up of multiplication and division facts that include all of the same numbers.

Please check your child's assignment book nightly for any homework they may have.  It is also important to consistently practice basic multiplication facts in order to increase speed and accuracy. We have been using a website in class that offers a lot of fun games to practice facts: www.multiplication.com

Looking ahead....

There will be a PTO meeting on November 6th at 6:30.  The first trimester ends on November 21st.  School will not be in session on November 23rd, 24th, or 27th .