Weekly Update Sept 10-14

Grade 4AG

Weekly Newsletter

September 10 - September 14, 2018

Language Arts
This week, students will be previewing nonfiction books and getting their mental “arms” around their books. This includes making connections to the topic and determining what they know already and what they want to learn more about. In writing, students will continue planning their essay and working on the structure of opinion writing.

Math
Students will be using their place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place value using real world situations. We will be using  a 'hill" number line where students will be looking at the two extreme numbers, finding the mid- point and seeing which way their number would 'roll' down. We will recap smaller numbers and then build on their knowledge with larger numbers. Here is a video that may help you understand what we are doing at school.

Social Studies

This is a short week and students will continue to look into what makes up their identity by creating "I am...." sentences and designing matching symbols.  We will be using these to help design an image of themselves that includes all of their, "I am..." sentence symbols. We will also be introducing cultural universals ensuring they understand what each piece means and how it is just one piece in the bigger picture - Culture.

Announcements

• If your child is late (after 8:00 am), please be aware that they will need a tardy slip from the Elementary Office.
• If you plan to pick up your child any time during the school day, you must check in with the Elementary Office and then come up to the classroom to pick your child up.
• Grade 4AG is still looking for a home room parent. This will not require a huge amount of time or energy, it will actually be a lot of fun! Please let me know if are able to help out this year.

Resources
Let’s face it...the way we think about math nowadays is very different than when we were kids. Teachers have learned a lot about how to teach math and want you to learn with us.

Check out this video from YouCubed that talks about the importance of thinking deeply in math. Speed is not as important. How fast you are does not relate to how good you are.  Calculation is only a small part of math. Thinking deeply about patterns and ideas in math is more important.

HOW IMPORTANT IS SPEED IN MATH?