Hello Everyone!
One week down! It was a great first week of school. I am so excited to finally have this year rolling. The class dojo is up and running! I know many of the students have been checking their points. Students, go to class dojo student and enter your username and password that we create! If you can't remember them or lost the sheet that I sent home I will give you them again on Monday :) In the math world, we are still learning about place value, expanded form and standard form for the 3rd and 4th grade. In the 5th grade we are learning different types of multiplication like, lattice multiplication and partial product. Like we discussed on "Back to School Night" students must bring in a hard copy of their IXL homework. This means that any problems that students have to use a scratch piece of paper for needs to be brought to class. This way I can see how they are making their mistakes and keep them on the right path. If they used mental math throughout the entire IXL homework they need to write down five problems with the answers to receive full credit!
If you are going to bring treats for a birthday that is awesome, but just make sure you get in touch with me before you bring them. In our fourth grade class in the afternoons we are starting to dive right into projects! This week we did virtual tours around the United States. We visited Lake Tahoe, The Grand Canyon, New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C. As my students like to say "We got lost in the White House and didn't even leave our classroom" :) Our first project is about the different regions in the United States. Students will start creating maps of their own in the next few week.! We started to discuss our tribe agreements and played lots of "get to know you games"! Please remember to send your child with a few snacks. 8- 4 is a long day for them and to keep them focused we need snacks throughout the day!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Miss Pettit
