Today we had a discussion about this commercial, in particular what this man's home would be like with or without giving, and some of the feelings, descriptive words and phrases associated with that.
We then updated our 'Home is...' charts and commenced drafting!
This week's Dice Game:
- Get into groups of 3
- Make a heading in your book: Multiplication Dice Game and add today's date. - Each person takes their turn rolling the dice and multiplying the numbers.
- Go around the circle three times
- Add together your answers and the person with the highest score WINS!
This week we are looking multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of ten.
Some information on teaching the concept is here.
Some problems for working out are here.
Further problems / Multiplication Bingo is here.