I hope this helps as you (or your kids) as you work on tonight’s homework! It’s a clumsy name for a great strategy!

A few updates this evening:

• I was late in sending home the fliers for Family Math and Science night (oops!) and the deadline for registering has passed.  If you plan to register, for Wednesday’s event, send them in tomorrow and I’ll take care of adding you.  I’m very sorry for the mix-up!  If you attend this evening, enjoy!
• I will accept permission slips for Community Council until tomorrow morning at 9:15am.  Kids cannot run without a signed permission slip, so I’m offering this extension in case kids still want to become a candidate.
• I hear from some of the kids that last week’s video about Partial Sums Addition was helpful.  Here is one about different subtraction techniques; hopefully helpful for tonight’s math review.  We made the video during class today, and the kids seemed to be pretty comfortable with all the skills.  (Please pardon the misspelling toward the end of the video!)

Tonight’s homework asks students to solve addition problems using both the partial sums method and the traditional column/carrying method.  I tried out a new app on my iPad called ShowMe that lets me narrate a visual presentation and upload it as a video.  It still seems to be processing on ShowMe’s end, but I need to leave to pick up my son.  Here’s the link, in case it finishes soon.  (If it’s not ready when you try it, check back later.)  Hopefully this is helpful and easy for you – it’s new for us all!

UPDATE: The site says that it’s almost done processing, so hopefully it will be ready by 4:45 or 5:00.
UPDATE 2: The first few seconds have a blank screen. That’s intentional – not a problem on your end. Also, there should be sound. If you don’t hear anything, try again a bit later. (The sound seems to still be processing on the site’s end.)

http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=59443