Sunday, January 11, 2015

Why did the boy eat his math homework? Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.

I hope everyone received your child's report cards! Please email me if you have any questions or concerns.


3rd Grade-  We are still dealing with adding and subtracting. Last week we learned about partial difference and partial sum. This week I am showing students standard algorithm for both adding and subtracting. On Wednesday we will have a short quiz on these strategies! Thursday we are starting to dip our toes into fractions! 

4th- We are still working on division. This week we are still practicing standard algorithm division as well as learning about partial quotient division! Students will have a short quiz on division on Thursday! 

5th - We are still adding and subtracting fractions. Students are learning about how to subtract and add mixed numbers this week. There will be a short quiz on adding and subtracting fractions on Thursday. 


Projects- We are diving into our animal and plant unit. This week students are starting to research and learn about the different environments, behavior, reproduction and growth. The students final project will be creating a website in order to compare and contrast one animal and one plant.
Vocabulary quiz will be February 5th.