Week of August 27th

Happy Monday Everyone,

     I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Just think this weekend will be a 3-day weekend since we are off on Monday for Labor Day!! 

     Our rug came in last week!!! Thanks to your generosity, my Donor's Choose project was fully funded. I asked for a new classroom rug and it was delivered last week.The students are loving having enough room to sit. Thank you so much!!

     We have several things happening this week. We will have our first early dismissal day on Wednesday. Students will be released at 1:30. Please make sure your child knows how they are going home. Thursday night we will have Open House beginning at 6:00. This is a parents only event. You will go to the cafeteria first. After Ms. Mattingly's presentation you will come to Ms. Billiard's room for our presentation. We hope that you will be able to attend.

     Please write your child's name on their lunch box. All of 4th grade goes to recess at then to lunch at about the same time and many of the students have similar looking lunch boxes. We have had several times where students have picked up the wrong lunch box.

     There was lots of confusion about some of websites last week. One of the emails that I sent last week included the directions for how to register for Brain Pop and how to get to the online resources for our science book. These are two different websites. You can not get to the science book through Brain Pop. To get to the science book, your child must log in to the Blended Learning website. You can reach Blended Learning by going through the Students tab on the DCPS website. If your child was a DCPS student last year they should be familiar with Blended Learning. This is how they accessed i-Ready and Achieve 3,000 last year. 
     This week for technology students need to make sure that they have registered for Brain Pop and Prodigy. Students need to also go on to Ed Your Friend in Learning and complete the Digital Lesson for lesson 1 What do Scientist Do.

    This week in math we will continue working in Module 1 Place Value. This week students will take their first math quiz. The quiz will cover place value concepts that we have worked on so far: comparing and ordering numbers, number relationships (10 times greater), showing numbers in different forms, and rounding.

     This week in science we will cover lessons 2 and 3. Lesson 2 discusses the skills that scientist use in their work. Things like observing, making inferences, communicating their results, making comparisons to the work of other scientists and collecting and displaying data. Students will take their first quiz on Thursday. The quiz will cover lessons 1, 2, and 3. Students are allowed to use their books and journals for all quizzes, so it is important that students always bring needed supplies to class.  

     This week in social studies we will continue to learn general information about Florida. We ran out of time on last Friday so we will spend time discussing both lesson 1 and lesson 2. Lesson 1 is a general getting to know Florida reading. It talk the geography of our state. Lesson 2 talks about Florida's land and water. Students will take quizzes for both lesson 1 and lesson 2. Students should comprehend the material well enough that they can discuss the material with the class. This week for homework students also need to complete the vocabulary for lessons 1 and 2. If your child is not able to copy down the words on the board in the classroom, they can find the words on the S.S. Vocab tab of this page. This week's words are the first six on the list under chapter 1.

     Have a GREAT week,
     Ms. J

Week of August 20, 2018

Hi Everyone,

     We made it through the 1st week of school!! I look forward to us getting into our groove and being able to complete our subjects on schedule this week.

     Last week in math we learned that a number in one place is ten times more than the number to it's right. For example in the number 1,259,980 the nine in the thousands place is ten times greater than the nine in the hundreds place. We also learned how to take a number written in unit form (word and a number) and change it to standard form (word written with digits). For example if I have 20 tens, I can multiply 20 x 10 and find out that I really have 200. If I have 15 thousands, I can multiply 15 x 1,000 and find out that I really have 15,000. 
     This week in math we will continue our work with place value. We will learn how to place commas in numbers. The different forms that numbers can shown, word form, standard form, expanded form and unit form. We will learn how to compare and order numbers using inequality symbols (<, >, and =). We will learn how to quickly add numbers that are 1, 10 and 100 thousand more or less than a number using mental math. We will end the week reviewing strategies for rounding numbers to any place. 
     You probably heard about our timed test baseline that we took last week. We will take timed quizzes every other week. For the 1st nine weeks students will have 3 minutes to answer as many problems as they can. During the 2nd nine weeks students will have 2 minutes and 30 seconds. For the 3rd and 4th nine weeks students will have 2 minutes. Most of the grades will go into the grade book as a classwork grade. The last one of the quarter goes in as a quiz grade. During the 1st nine weeks the division quizzes will not count as a grade. We will take our first one for a grade this Friday.

     This week in science we will learn how scientist do their jobs. We will learn about the scientific method. We will learn about the different types of investigations that scientists perform. We will also learn that not all questions are equal. Some questions are ordinary and some are scientific. We will learn how to identify a scientific question and how to write a scientific question.

     This week in social studies we will begin learning how Florida history. Students should read with comprehension chapter 1 lesson 1, Getting to Know Florida pages 2-11. On Friday we will discuss the lesson and students will take a quiz on the material. Social studies homework is always assigned on Monday's and due on Friday.

     Thanks and have a GREAT week,
      Aesha

Welcome to 4th Grade

Hi Everyone,

     I am so excited that a new school year is about to start!! I can't wait to get know everyone.

     Each week on this page I will update you on what we will cover in math, science, and social studies. I will also let you know about upcoming school events. This page will also let you know about upcoming assessments and when projects are due. Keeping up with homework assignments will come home in your child's agenda. By accessing the pages of the blog you can also see the vocabulary that your child will be completing in their journals for science and social studies.
  
     This week in math we will begin working on Module 1 which is about place value. This week we will learn how a digit in one place is 10 times the place the right. For example, it takes 10 ones to equal 1 ten. 10 tens is equal to 1 hundred. We will also work on the different forms numbers can take (standard form, unit form, expanded form and word form).

     This week in science we will learn how scientists do their work. We will learn about the different types of investigations that scientists perform. Students will also begin to understand what the scientific method is and that even though scientist use it in their work it does not follow a rigid order. 

     This week we will not work on social studies. We will begin that work next week.  

Have a wonderful week,
Ms. Johnson