Monday, January 5, 2015

Team Mindcrafters Daily Update 1-5-15

Parents,

Happy New Year!  I hope you had a restful holiday filled with time spent with the ones you love.  It was great to see all of the students today! As a parent of teenagers know it can be challenging to get your child back into school and sleep routines at home.  Thank you for all that you do to for help to make sure your child is ready to learn at school each day.

Reading - We are spending this week continuing to work on skills from Unit 2, and we will be reading a short novel together in class.  There will be no ELA sheet or spelling list, but they do have a reading log to complete.  Next week we will begin Unit 3.

Math - The next few weeks we will be learning "long" division. Students did a great job with the introduction of division today. 4th graders are expected to be able to divide numbers of up to 4 digits dividends by 1 digit divisors. We will be practicing this a little bit each day. As students gain comfort with long division, they will also begin learning to solve problems using variables and expressions, another challenging topic.

Reminders:
  • End of quarter is Thursday, January 15
  • No school, Friday January 16 - Teacher work day
HOMEWORK

READING
  • 88% AR by Friday
MATH:
AM Practice

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
None.

USEFUL LINKS:

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Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade