Reminders:
Standardized testing will be next week, the morning of Monday, May 14-Thursday, May 17, with make up testing on Friday. Please make sure your child gets a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast, and comes to school on time by 8:30 a.m. each day. Fifth graders may bring a calculator from home for one of the math sections, but please be sure to label the calculator with your child's name. Fourth graders may not use calculators. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Standardized testing will be next week, the morning of Monday, May 14-Thursday, May 17, with make up testing on Friday. Please make sure your child gets a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast, and comes to school on time by 8:30 a.m. each day. Fifth graders may bring a calculator from home for one of the math sections, but please be sure to label the calculator with your child's name. Fourth graders may not use calculators. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Please let us know right away if there is a conflict preventing your child from attending our version of By the Great Horn Spoon Wednesday, May 23rd at 6:30pm in the Depot, or the rehearsal 3:30-6:30pm that day. Students will stay after school to
rehearse for the performance. We will serve a pizza dinner to the
students (being coordinated by Jolie and Clare). More information to
come.
The Walkathon is Thursday, May 24. Students will be bringing home envelopes with pledge cards, to find people to sponsor them, and to raise money for the What If? Foundation in Haiti.
Homework:
Homework:
Language arts test prep work due tomorrow (see yesterday's blog).
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group: Standardized test practice: computation
Purple group: Standardized test practice: computation
Blue Group Homework: Word Problems
By the Great Horn Spoon: We are hard at work preparing for the show on May 23rd. There is much still to do including sets props and finalizing scripts. We began a discussion today to decide upon a name for the puppet/play.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: We reviewed measures of center in data analysis today: median, mode, and mean (or average). Students calculated each of these as well as the range. Then students practiced their multiplication or division of multi-digit numbers, and some students worked with pan-balance problems that use algebraic reasoning.
4th Grade Blue Group: Today we reviewed our work from Tuesday finding the area of parallelograms, and extended this work to finding the area of triangles. Our formula of "base x height=Area" for parallelograms (including rectangles), has now been adapted to 1/2 (base x height) = area for triangles. The kids got this concept when comparing halves of parallelograms bisected from vertex to vertex. We began a look into long division at the close of class to be continued tomorrow.
Purple group: We reviewed measures of center in data analysis today: median, mode, and mean (or average). Students calculated each of these as well as the range. Then students practiced their multiplication or division of multi-digit numbers, and some students worked with pan-balance problems that use algebraic reasoning.
4th Grade Blue Group: Today we reviewed our work from Tuesday finding the area of parallelograms, and extended this work to finding the area of triangles. Our formula of "base x height=Area" for parallelograms (including rectangles), has now been adapted to 1/2 (base x height) = area for triangles. The kids got this concept when comparing halves of parallelograms bisected from vertex to vertex. We began a look into long division at the close of class to be continued tomorrow.
