4th Grade Fun at JBE: Week of August 29th

Hi Everyone,

We are entering the third week of school. An we are all still getting used to the rituals and routines of 4th grade. We are off on Monday September 5th for Labor Day. I hope everyone enjoys the 3-day weekend!!

I would like to thank everyone that took the time to purchase items off of my Amazon Class Wishlist. It is so appreciated. I am humbled by your kindness.

I am looking for volunteers to cut game pieces and cards for the new math games that game along with our new math curriculum. If you are interested I will send home the materials with your child and you can cut the parts out at home. If you are interested please send me an email, johnsona4@duvalschools.org. Thanks in advance for your help.

College Colors Day

In preparation for the college football season, this Friday 9/2 is known as College Colors Day. Students can wear the gear or colors of their favorite college team!!

I will of course be sporting my orange and green to represent my beloved FAMU!! What is your favorite college?

8/29 Monday

Science Quiz on Unit 1 Lessons 1 and 2

8/31 Wednesday

Early Release

9/2 Friday

Math Quiz-Unit 1 Place Value

9/2 Friday

College Colors Day--Wear your favorite college's gear!!

9/5 Monday

Labor Day - No School

9/8 Thursday

Open House @ 5:30

9/29 Thursday

Science Night @ 6:00

This week in math, we will continue our work on place value. This week we will cover comparing and ordering numbers and rounding. Some things that you can work on at home to help reinforce our math work at school are listed below.

* Have your child read larger numbers (through the millions) at home. Sometimes students have difficulty reading larger numbers.

* Even though students have worked on rounding numbers in previous grades, it can sometimes be a difficult skill to master. Have your child round numbers to various places. For example: Given the number 254,861. You might ask your child to round the number to the nearest ten, nearest hundred thousand, nearest hundred.

This Week's Math Skills

Math Technology Homework

Due to a glitch in the student schedules some students did not get the Freckle Diagnostic in their Student Backpack. If your child completed the work they will not have any technology homework this week. If your child did not get the assignment last week that is their technology homework for this week.

To those new to Freckle please use the directions below to access the program.

*Go to OneView.

*Click on Blended Learning.

*Scroll down and click on Renaissance Learning.

*Click Freckle.

*Click my name.

*Click on the Backpack.

*Click on the assignment.

Please keep in mind that this is a diagnostic assignment. I am trying to gather data about your child's mathematical knowledge. The test covers 4th grade standards so students will not know how to solve many of the questions. If they ask you for assistance simply tell them to make their best guess and keep going.

Math Clips and Websites

*Comparing Whole Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F64vCtdcbvM

*Rounding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd-E18EqSVk&t=10s

*Rounding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNfz-JU2cKE&t=11s

This week in science we will finish our study of the scientific method and other skills that scientist use. We will also learn about some of the common tools that scientist use and why scientist compare the results that they get.

This Week's Science Skills