We learned more multiplication

In Gym, we played floor hockey and there was a purple team, an orange team, a yellow team, a green team, and that was all. I was on the yellow team. There was not that much players on the yellow team, so Cam H. and Jenna joined our team, and Cam went in net and got a shutout. - Lexi

At Math time, when we were doing our Number of the Day, the time on the SmartBoard was a big bomb. When time ran out, it was a big explosion! - Logan

We continued to work on multiplication today, and concentrated on four different methods that you can use solve mulitplication questions: drawing a picture, repeated addition, making an array, or skip-counting on a number line. Here are some photos of students showing their learning on the SmartBoard - in order, they are showing repeated addition, making an array, and skip-counting:

BTW, when Logan refers to the "bomb" on the SmartBoard during Number of the Day, he's referring to a timer I use on the computer, to let the students know how much time they have remaining to complete their work. You can choose to have the timer as a variety of shapes - I usually choose an egg timer, but today I decided to try the bomb (the old-style 'canonball' ones with the wick that are often used in old cartoons). As the time runs down, the 'sands' in the egg timer run down as well (in the case of the bomb, the wick burns shorter as time runs down). When the timer hit zero, there was the sound of an explosion (instead of the calming sound of wind chimes, which I usually use) - this proved to cause way too much commotion in the classroom, so I don't believe I'll be using it again. Live and learn!