This week we have been using "The Happy Apple" as a basis for discussion in math. We are working to solidify some of the skills that serve as a foundation for division. In particular this exercise has focused on subtraction with re-grouping (borrowing) and multiplication by a variable. In the above example there is an apple stand that has 3 full crates of apples, and 7 loose apples in stock. A customer comes by to get some apples and asks for....well you can see that above. Anyway, we kept the units simply as crates for a while, to build the understanding that after the customer leaves the stand will be left with one full crate, less two apples. Soon after we designated a number of apples in each crate and soon found that no matter the number we put in the crate, the stand was always left with that number less 2.
We have also been nurturing and caring for the chrysalis cases that we currently have. The butterflies will probably emerge in a couple weeks, and we look forward to releasing them.
This week we have also been working on tracking our reading stamina, identifying different traits that characters have, analyzing the different examples of authors craft that we can see. All of these work toward a deeper understanding of that books that we are really, as well as literary elements that we can add to our own original writing.
I hope you all have a refreshing, invigorating, and warm (hot even) weekend!
-Dave
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