Sunday, September 28, 2014

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

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Time for another awesome week of school!
    This week for 3rd grade math  we will be learning about the different properties of multiplication. Our first property is the distribution property. Remember to keep practicing math facts at home!
OUR FIRST MATH TEST WILL BE SENT HOME TUESDAY. PLEASE SIGN AND SEND BACK WITH YOUR CHILD. 

  4th grade math this week we will be learning about estimation and modeling estimation through tape diagrams. OUR FIRST MATH TEST WILL BE SENT HOME TUESDAY. PLEASE SIGN AND SEND BACK WITH YOUR CHILD. 

  5th grade math this week we will start to learn how to multiply decimals by single-digit whole numbers. OUR FIRST MATH TEST WILL BE SENT HOME TUESDAY. PLEASE SIGN AND SEND BACK WITH YOUR CHILD. 

Math Grading- We use standard grading. You will see multiple 1,2, &3's on your child's paper. For each standard we cover in math students will receive a 1,2, or 3.This is new to many of you! If you have question please email me.

Remember 15 minutes of IXL a night :)

Note from Mrs. Windriver in reading :
  This week we learned about exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.  We will continue working on this.  On Thursday the students had another spelling assessment.  They will be taking these home on Monday - if your child got a 1, please have him/her study each night as part of their 20 minutes of reading.  We continued our book clubs.  Again, if you haven't checked out Edmodo yet, please have your child show it to you.  That is where you will see how your child is doing on their weekly reading assignments.


  Projects for the 4th grade- We are well underway with our new project,"The Game of Life". Last week we opened with our entry event and play the board game LIFE. ( Each child who let us borrow a LIFE game took it home with them on Thursday! Thank you for letting us borrow it!) It was fun to see how interested the students were on saving money and budgeting. Ask your child about their experience! This week we will have a presenter coming in to Tuesday and Thursday to help talk to our class about budgeting, loans, and accounts. We will also learn how to write checks and use a money ledger.
P.S.- Having issues uploading our presentations on the blog. I am working to get them posted. Sorry for the delay.

Halloween is coming up if anyone would like to help plan for our party please let me know!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK