October 9-Picture Day

Picture day forms are coming home tonight!  Our school pictures will be held-Thursday October 9.
Please complete and return order form ASAP and we will send it down to the office!

October 2-PTO Meeting

Our October PTO meeting will be held on October 2!

Please plan to attend @ 7pm in the Library!

Your support is greatly appreciated!

Week 6 Spelling

Week 6 Spelling words are published on www.spellingcity.com/loristeinbrink

Please use this website to help your child practice at home!

You can also double check their words in their agenda against their list if you see any discrepancies due to speeding through when they write them into their agenda!

FUNDRAISER DUE MONDAY, SEPT. 29

Dear Independence Families,
Just a reminder that our annual fundraiser is underway!

This fundraiser is our major source of income. It funds all of our PTO/School sponsored events. The packets are due Monday, Sept. 29th. Please turn in your order form and money in your child's envelope to their teacher. Please remember to put a cell phone number on the order form to receive a reminder text about delivery. If your child sells enough to earn a t-shirt, please mark the size you want on top of the order form.
Please consider helping our fundraising efforts. We appreciate any amount of participation.

Sincerely,
Independence School

Addition Math Strategies

Below are some tips that might be helpful when your student brings home their work on Tuesday. We are focusing on two different types of addition. They are:  Partial-Sums and Column-Addition.

I have written out an example, and I have also attached a link to a video that will help explain the process as well. It was difficult to format the example for Column-Addition, so I attached a photo. The steps are colored in coordination with the actual work in the photo. If you have questions, let me know! I know this is a very different method, than many of us, including myself, grew up with. We are in this journey together! I have found these methods fantastic for teaching addition, and really help students make sense of addition. Enjoy!

Partial-Sums

The partial-sums method is used to find sums mentally or with paper and pencil. Here is the partial-sums method for adding 2-digit or 3-digit numbers:

Steps:

1.) Add the 100s

2.) Add the 10s

3.) Add the 1s

4.) Then add the sums you just found (the partial sums).

Example:

                                                                          46

                                                                        +37 

Add the 10s:                    40+30 ----------->       70

Add the 1s:                        6+  7 ----------->     +13

Add the partial sums       70+13 ----------->       83

                                                                                   233

                                                                                 +158

Add the 100s:                  200+100 -------->                300

Add the 10s:                      30+  50 -------->                  80

Add the 1s:                         3 +   8 --------->                +11

Add the partial sums:  300 + 80 + 11 ----->                391

video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vac6SUg9uSU

Column-Addition 

The column-addition method can be used to find sums with paper and pencil, but it is not a good method for finding sums mentally.

Here is the column-addition method for adding 2-digit or 3-digit numbers.

1.) Draw lines to separate the 1s, 10s, and 100s places.

2.) Add the numbers in each column. Write each sum in its column.

3.) If there are 2 digits in the 1s place, trade 10 ones for 1 ten.

4.) If there are 2 digits in the 10s places, trade 10 tens for 1 hundred.

Example:

Add 248+187 using the column-addition method.

Add the numbers in each column

Two digits in the ones place.

Trade 15 ones for 1 ten and 5 ones.

Move the 1 ten to the tens column.

Two digits in the tens place.

Trade 13 tens for 1 hundred and 3 tens

Move the 1 hundred to the hundreds column

248 + 187 = 435 

video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B9oM-phD3g

I hope this information helped. If you every have more questions about our Everyday Math while you are at home, this is a really helpful site to view!This link will take you to the unit we are currently working on.

 http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/4th-grade/em-at-home/unit_2/

Independence Staff Ice Bucket Challenge!

Ice Bucket Challenge

Southeast Region

YouTube Videos for studying this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKIRWdN37I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUmeXLs2jM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3PMbThhsg