Mrs. Richardson's Little Sparkles: Challenge for the Weekend!

*Thank you so much to those of you that have been able to bring in soda to help with our soda walk for Fall Festival! You still have until Wednesday to donate (if you can)! We are hoping to get enough in so that we can win the 3rd grade contest (or at least beat Ms. Mathews' class and win for our pod)!*

We have been working SO hard using all of our properties in math to solve multiplication and division problems! Your students have been analyzing errors and working together in groups to solve some really challenging problems this week! Today, one of our problems dealt with the Distributive Property again and so I challenged them to solve 8 x 9 using the Distributive Property in as many ways as they could! I'm going to check over all of their work and determine the winner on Tuesday! Here are some pictures of your students solving through the problem!

Maddux showing off his work!

Pablo filling in all of his squares!

Sneak peek at Jayden's work (he had more on the back)!

Savauna and Melody

worked hard in a group with me!

I let them know that I would give them a challenge over this long weekend so I hope they are up for it! I want your child to solve 7 x 8 using the Distributive Property in as many ways as they can! Have them write down all of the possible ways and solve them out on any piece of paper you have at home and bring it in on Tuesday. The person with the most ways (solved correctly) will win a prize :) Happy Challenge Weekend!

We also have been studying about plants, their parts and what each part does to help the plant live and grow! We compared plants outside today after lunch! Find a plant this weekend and ask your child what kind of roots they think the plant has and why! They should be able to tell you either a taproot or a fiborous root and give you some evidence for their thought!