Monday, October 18, 2010

Happenings This Week...10/18--10/22

Hi Everyone,

We are close to ending our first quarter. Hard to believe that we've been in school that long and already have learned so much.
Here is what we will be looking at this week:

Field Trip: Friday we will be taking our 4th graders to Horne Creek Living Farm. If you have not paid the $6.00 fee or turned in the permission slip, please do so ASAP. Money must be turned in by Wednesday the 20th.

Reading: Imagine It Lesson 4- We will be looking at words ending in -ed and -ing. Our story this week will deal with Langston Hughes: Poet of the People. It is a play format, so the student will be able to read different sections. This also deals with our Concept Board "Risk and Consequence."

Math: We are reviewing all week for the upcoming end of quarter test. A great way to help is to review multiplication facts each night with your child. Multiplication is something we've been over in class so they are sure to see it on the test.

Writing: We continue on to our note taking activites and how to put those notes into a report format. The kids will choose their animal that they plan to research and present.

Science: We will look at plants and the fall leaves; answering the question, "Why do the leaves change their color?" The class has been doing a great job of note taking in their science journals. We have done a lot of discovery, and this is a great tool to use for review.

Spelling; The words for this week are: pleading, building, painting, finished, worried, unplugged, opening, insisted, controlled, leaving, danced, shedding, rating, striped, stripped, fitting, ringing, setting, bleached, curved.
Spelling test will be given on Friday. There will also be some sentence assignments this week.

**Please make sure you sign your child's planner each night. This ensures that you are seeing that the homework is getting completed. Any uncompleted assignments will result in a zero.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Breaking Apart our Multiplication

Hi Parents,
I wanted to post a visual for you guys to look at tonight for homework. We are currently working on Multiplication and there are many of us who are struggling with our multiplication facts.
We are moving into multiplying 2 digit by 2 digit. Below is the step by step process for doing an easier "Break Apart" method. I have taught them three different ways (one being the traditional "up and down" that we all learned back in the day).

Please review over this and look at it if you need assistance.