April 11, 2016
(This week's homework below)
ILPs Prep and Practice Week
I have assigned ILP dates and they are on our class calendar in the classroom for all students to see. However, please keep reminding your child of his or her presentation date so that s/he will be on time and leave time to rehearse. Thank you for returning sheets (I know there have been quite a few) - if any sheets are not yet signed, please do so to let me know that you are aware of the date and that your child will be ready and present (no medical appointment...). I will send a note if this is not done this week. We are getting very excited about the ILPs!
Take Two
We know almost the entire routine for our musical theatre routine. Please have your child practice the lines to the song.
Book Your Time
Don't forget to record your Home Reading - remember that just 105 minutes a week earns your child XP in our Classcraft live video game!
It's a Goal!!!
Each student has now developed a personal goal (brought home in the "Marked Work" folder) with a measurable step to help him or her improve in a specific area. Your child should be able to tell you what the goal and step(s) are any day you ask. Encourage, suggest, and praise your child to support his or her progress in this area. For example, if the goal is to write more detailed answers, ask how s/he has or can improve a piece of homework, perhaps give a further suggestion, and then praise him or her for putting forth a strong effort. If the step is done usually at home, watch and prompt if your child is forgetting.
Another Goal?
Some of the goals students in the class have chosen have been accomplished. Regardless, please review with your child his or her goal as students are expected to take responsibility to use the step they have chosen. If you have any questions about this please write me a quick note.
Dinner Topics
Topics you may want to discuss at supper or any time are:
Discuss what your child has learned about Easter in Religion, or about why and how parents have families.
Both grades, three and four, are on Part Two of their units: Bridge Structures and Gears, respectively. The Mid-Unit quiz will be sent home for you to see soon. I will most likely have some of the same questions on the End-of-Unit Test. Grade 3 students are building shapes and entire structures out of paper and other materials to experiment with which shape gives the most strength and which design provides the most stability. Grade 4 students are making cardboard gears of various sizes to experiment with how gears can change the direction, speed, and location of a force. Review notes and look for examples of concepts in real life (triangles in bridges, where and how gears are used: watches and clocks, bike...)
In Math the Grade 4s are using their knowledge of multiplication to divide. The Yellow group is focussing on representing problems using symbols and pictures and the Blue group is focussing on long division with remainders. Give your son or daughter similar problems to those on the practice sheets in his or her duotang.
We continue practicing Be the Hero, from The Big Fish. The Super Three Fours have already many moves for their dance routine. Ask how your child feels about doing this. What do they find most challenging?
Sloush!
On a final note, as the colder weather vanishes, it leaves behind puddles (sometimes smelly ones ;-) Students should have clothes in case of an muddy accident. Your child is always encouraged to keep with his or her emergency bag of clothes extras of these articles of clothing. Also, if you send your child in with a coat, I have them wear it outside - the teacher on duty can make the decision that it has warmed up enough to play without the coat.
I have assigned ILP dates and they are on our class calendar in the classroom for all students to see. However, please keep reminding your child of his or her presentation date so that s/he will be on time and leave time to rehearse. Thank you for returning sheets (I know there have been quite a few) - if any sheets are not yet signed, please do so to let me know that you are aware of the date and that your child will be ready and present (no medical appointment...). I will send a note if this is not done this week. We are getting very excited about the ILPs!
Take Two
We know almost the entire routine for our musical theatre routine. Please have your child practice the lines to the song.
Book Your Time
Don't forget to record your Home Reading - remember that just 105 minutes a week earns your child XP in our Classcraft live video game!
It's a Goal!!!
Each student has now developed a personal goal (brought home in the "Marked Work" folder) with a measurable step to help him or her improve in a specific area. Your child should be able to tell you what the goal and step(s) are any day you ask. Encourage, suggest, and praise your child to support his or her progress in this area. For example, if the goal is to write more detailed answers, ask how s/he has or can improve a piece of homework, perhaps give a further suggestion, and then praise him or her for putting forth a strong effort. If the step is done usually at home, watch and prompt if your child is forgetting.
Another Goal?
Some of the goals students in the class have chosen have been accomplished. Regardless, please review with your child his or her goal as students are expected to take responsibility to use the step they have chosen. If you have any questions about this please write me a quick note.
Dinner Topics
Topics you may want to discuss at supper or any time are:
Discuss what your child has learned about Easter in Religion, or about why and how parents have families.
Both grades, three and four, are on Part Two of their units: Bridge Structures and Gears, respectively. The Mid-Unit quiz will be sent home for you to see soon. I will most likely have some of the same questions on the End-of-Unit Test. Grade 3 students are building shapes and entire structures out of paper and other materials to experiment with which shape gives the most strength and which design provides the most stability. Grade 4 students are making cardboard gears of various sizes to experiment with how gears can change the direction, speed, and location of a force. Review notes and look for examples of concepts in real life (triangles in bridges, where and how gears are used: watches and clocks, bike...)
In Math the Grade 4s are using their knowledge of multiplication to divide. The Yellow group is focussing on representing problems using symbols and pictures and the Blue group is focussing on long division with remainders. Give your son or daughter similar problems to those on the practice sheets in his or her duotang.
We continue practicing Be the Hero, from The Big Fish. The Super Three Fours have already many moves for their dance routine. Ask how your child feels about doing this. What do they find most challenging?
Sloush!
On a final note, as the colder weather vanishes, it leaves behind puddles (sometimes smelly ones ;-) Students should have clothes in case of an muddy accident. Your child is always encouraged to keep with his or her emergency bag of clothes extras of these articles of clothing. Also, if you send your child in with a coat, I have them wear it outside - the teacher on duty can make the decision that it has warmed up enough to play without the coat.
Mr . L.
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THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK
April 11, 2016 (check for updates!)
MONDAY
Words sheet #20
Math Yellow Group: Worksheet (due Friday)
Math Blue Group: Worksheet (due Friday)
Grade 4 Science: Finish and review “Gears”
TUESDAY
Words Pretest in booklet (a parent reads the current week's words for their child to spell. The child marks each word with a check mark or X using the word list.
Grade 3 Science: Review how shapes add strength. Groups made and tested a circular, triangular and square pillar out of construction paper, then tested them with books to learn how braces / struts form triangles and increase rigidity /strength). We also did a cool demonstration on absorption of force (using a wrapping tube filled with sand, end closed with a facial tissue held on with a rubber band), students tried to push a stick through the sand to break the facial tissue). We related this to how triangles spread out force (absorption) in structures like bridges.
WEDNESDAY
Words to Fix mistakes from yesterday's home pretest. Write each misspelled word correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe neck and head).
WEDNESDAY
Words to Fix mistakes from yesterday's home pretest. Write each misspelled word correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe neck and head).
Grade 4: Keep studying times tables
Grade 4 Science: Review “Gearing Up” and “Gear Examples”
Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.
Sentence Stretchletics (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang) Most students are now writing a sentence in pencil (with three circled words for the current Words list), then stretching it with a blue pen or pencil. I am expecting 4-5 changes in blue. A change could be an added adjective such as "sticky", "adorable", or "jealous". It could be a phrase that replaces such as this adverbial phrase replacing the word "later": "when all eyes had closed and the busy sounds of mice had begun." However, several students still need to do one of the expectations.
Grade 4 Science: Review Gear Information
FRIDAY NO HOMEWORK PD DAY
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