Partial Sums Algorithm

Parents: Everyday Math introduces many new ways to approach math that are oftentimes very different than the traditional methods taught while we were in school. Below is an example of how to use the Partial Sums Algorithm, which the students will use on their homework over the weekend and on the unit test.

October Student Challenge

From Function Machine

Monster Journal Excerpts

Paige's Adventures with Little Blue

The Adventures of Poohbaby, Little Blue, and Millie from ccrandall

Map Projects

As a culminating project, students created their very own countries! They carefully and creatively designed maps of their islands and presented them to the class.

Writing Excerpts

A few times each month students' WEX (writing) binders are collected and some strong samples of writing are displayed for the class to see. These "Monster Journal Excerpts" are read to the class and then hung on the white board. The children then discuss the strengths of these pieces, which serve as inspiration for future writing lessons.

Here is the first set of Monster Journal Excerpts:

September Student Challenge

Eight marvelous pupils completed the thought-provoking September Student Challenge, which required students to generate a list of extremely juicy words for each letter of the alphabet! These students discovered many incredible words that our class will try to use in our everyday speaking and writing. Congratulations to the participants: Robert, Paige, Ria, Margaret, Maya, Jake, Annabelle, and Victoria!

Owen's Adventures with Swinger

Over the Weekend Swinger and I

          By Owen S.

We went to my football game and Swinger came too. He also had a staring contest with me but he won. I had a sleepover and he came with me. We had a lot of fun. We played tag we never got tagged.  Then I went home and we climbed a tree. He liked it a lot. He was swng on branches. Then we had another staring contest and he won, so I tried again and he still won. Swinger and I watched t.v. 

Student Techspert: Drew

Today in gym we played a soccer game.

We also went to music.

We played the xylophones.

By: Drew

September Book Orders

Book Orders are due to school by this Friday or online by Saturday!

Class Code = GRNPB

Flipper's Adventures with Jake

Flipper’s Adventures

By: Jake

On Friday night I took Flipper to my soccer game. It was cloudy and rainy and very cold. The soccer game was in Buffalo Grove. Flipper wanted to play the game but he had to stay with my mom. He stayed dry by sitting under the umbrella. For the rest of the weekend I went to Indian Guides. Flipper was very excited about going on a road trip. We went to a campground in Wisconsin. The first thing Flipper did was to help me unpack the truck. We set up our bunk bed and laid out our sleeping bag. Then Flipper helped us make the fire. At the end of the night Flipper slept with me. In the morning when we woke up we had breakfast and then we went to the bb gun range and the archery range. We even went canoeing in the lake. Then we packed up to go home. We had lots of fun together.

September Crandall Chronicle

Student Techspert: Danny

We are signing the poster for the party at the gym. The party is for Dryden's 60th birthday. All the staff are wearing red. There will be a tour and the song for Dryden. (By: Danny)

Digital Postcards

The students explored various landforms using the app TourWrist. They took screen shots of the sites they toured and showcased them using the app Pic Collage.

Student Techspert: Robert

Look at all of our ideas we did in class. (By: Robert)

Student Techspert: Alex

In math today we were playing card games. (By: Alex)

Race Across the States

We received our first six postcards today! Three states down...forty-seven to go! Not only did we receive postcards from Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Illinois, but we were also sent a postcard all the way from Scotland! Please thank friends and family for helping us with our exciting Race Across the States Project.