Partial Quotient Method

Last week our class started working on long division using the Partial Quotients Method.  The students are doing well as we practice this method.  Many have realized how important it is for them to know their multiplication math facts.  I gave students a sheet to keep in their binder with a few examples.  Here is a video of the method if you or your child needs to review the method:

On Thursday, the class was broken into two teams to practice problems using the Promethean Board.  Each student did one step and then passed the marker on to the next member of their team.  We were able to see how we can solve the same problem by doing it in different ways.

Homework for Week of January 28- February 1

*Students should be choosing two week nights to go on xtramath.org to help them practice their math facts.

* No vocabulary this week

Monday:

Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-5
Study Southeast states and capitals - quiz on Friday


Tuesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-6
Study Southeast states and capitals- quiz on Friday

Wednesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Southeast states and capitals - quiz on Friday

Thursday:
Read for 15 minutes
Math - Angle and Partial Quotient Sheet
Study Southeast states and capitals - quiz tomorrow

Friday:
Read for 30 minutes
Go on xtramath.com at least once

Homework for the Week of January 21-25

*Students should be choosing two week nights to go on xtramath.org to help them practice their math facts.

Monday:
No School

Tuesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-3
Study Vocabulary Review week - Quiz Friday

Start studying Southeast states and capitals

Wednesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-4

Study Vocabulary Review week - Quiz Friday

Start studying Southeast states and capitals

Thursday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-5

Study Vocabulary Review week - Quiz tomorrow

Start studying Southeast states and capitals

Friday:
Read for 30 minutes
Go on xtramath.com at least once

Busy Week

This week we were busy working on a lot of different projects.  One afternoon we made Valentine's Day cards for the troops serving overseas.  They cards will be passed on to the Pease Greeters to send over on one of the planes flying out of Pease.  Students put a lot of effort into their cards and wrote great messages to the soldiers telling them how much we appreciate everything they do.

If you look in the background of this page you can see all the postcards we have collected around our United States map.  We will be collecting them all year.  

We have also been practicing for the Civil Rights school wide morning meeting the fourth graders will be leading on Tuesday.  We practiced the song "What Can One Little Person Do?" by Sally Rogers.  As a class we have discussed how each of us can do little things to help others and make sure everyone feels included.  

 

Winter Stories

Students have been working on winter stories over the last few weeks.  They each created a story board for their realistic fiction stories and four watercolor paintings before the winter break.  Last week we started working on writing the first two pages of the story.  We are focusing on adding lots of details to our writing and we have used our paintings to help us gather our ideas.

Homework for Week of January 14-18

Remember there is no school next Monday, January 21st.

*Students should be choosing two week nights to go on xtramath.org to help them practice their math facts.

Monday:
Read for 15 minutes
Back of Math Review Sheet - Test tomorrow
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday

Tuesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Go on ixl.com for at least 10 minutes
Vocabulary Sheet - Quiz Friday

Look over Geology review sheet - Test Thursday

Wednesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-1
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday

Look over Geology review sheet - Test tomorrow

Thursday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 6-2
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday

Friday:
Read for 15 minutes
Go on xtramath.com at least once

ixl.com - Great Math Website

I hope you are all having a great weekend.  On Friday, I had students bring home a letter about the website ixl.com in their Friday Folder.  This is a great website for kids to practice different math skills we have already covered or preview new ones to come.  When you go to the website the students will need to log in with the same username and password which they use to log in to the computers at school.  

Students can choose a grade level to start with and I have encouraged the students to start with the third grade level to help them get used to how the program works.

Then they can look through the list of topics and choose lessons they might need to work on or ones similar to what we are studying in class.  Our next unit will include angles and we will be doing a lot with fractions during the rest of the year, so those might be good topics to start with.

This program does not practice basic math facts, so I am still encouraging students to practice them using xtramath.org and the backs of their mad minutes.  I know studying the basic facts is not something most students like to do, but it is so important as we work on longer multiplication, division, and fractions.

I hope you and your child enjoy ixl.com.  Our class previewed it on Thursday during computers and as a class we answered over 2,000 problems.  I was pretty impressed.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Fifty Nifty Club

We had our first student of year make it into the Fifty Nifty Club today.  She was able to label all 50 of the states on a blank United States Map.  Congratulations!!!!

There were also at least 6 students who had in between 42-49 states labelled correctly!  I think some of them will be joining the club next time.  There are many games and a blank map to print out and practice with on our class Moodle page.

Homework for the Week of January 7-11

*Students should be choosing two week nights to go on xtramath.org to help them practice their math facts.  

Monday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 5-9
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday


Tuesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 5-10
Vocabulary Sheet - Quiz Friday


Wednesday:
Read for 15 minutes
Study Link 5-11
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday


Thursday:
Read for 15 minutes
Front of Math Review and Test is Tuesday
Review Vocabulary - Quiz Friday


Friday:
Read for 15 minutes
Back of Math Review - due Tuesday and Test is Tuesday

Collecting USA Postcards

Thank you to everyone who has sent in or asked friends or family members to send postcards in to our class.  We will be collecting them throughout the rest of the year and I will be updating the list on the class Moodle page.  The states with red text are states we have received postcards from. The black colored states are states we are still looking for.

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho

Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri

Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania

Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Homework for Week of December 31-January 4

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a great vacation and holidays.  It is hard to believe it is already January. 

I wanted to remind you that fourth graders do not need to wear snowpants, but they must have boots on in order to go in the snow.  I always encourage the kids to bring snowpants, boots, mittens, and hats if they are going to want to play in the snow because it isn't much fun to sit in wet clothes for the end of the day. 

*Remember to choose two nights to go on xtramath during the week.

Monday:
No School

Tuesday:

No School
 
Wednesday:
Math - Study Link 5-6
Read for 15 minute
No Vocabulary Thursday:
Math - Study Link 5-7
Read for 15 min. No Vocabulary

Friday:
Read for 30 minutes
Practice Math Facts - Go on xtramath.org at least once over the weekend