Friday, December 16, 2011

Merry Christmas, Happy Channukah, & Happy Vacation

Please, please, please read each and every day while you're gone--in the airplane, at the beach, next to the pool. Read, read, and read some more.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Math Test Unit 4

Dear Parents,

Despite giving extra teaching and review time to unit 4, a disheartening amount of students got a 1 on the test. I will give retakes on Monday, January 9th after school. That is the only possible date that I can give a retake and change a math grade on the math test. If your child misses that retake they will have to accept the grade.

There is good news, however. Some students did great.

Sue

Friday, December 9, 2011

SEcret Santa


Don't forget your Secret Santa gift.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Math Test Unit 4 on Friday afternoon

  • Estimating distances using the scale on a map
  • Using friendly number strategies for mental division problems
  • Division
  • Checking division by multiplying
  • Magnitude estimations for dividing decimals (estimating the place value of a number)
  • Simple algebra
  • Story problem
  • Different forms that division can be written
  • Writing a number sentence
  • Knowing what a remainder represents in a story problem
  • How would you represent the remainder in a story problem (ignore it, report it as a fraction or a decimal, or round the number up)
  • Divisibility

LAST DAY FOR FOOD DRIVE

Tomorrow is the last day of the food drive for our janitors here at school. Please send in food to bless these men who word so hard and so cheerfully to take care of us.