Homework 9/26-9/30

There is no homework this week because we are learning new skills in math and I will not be at school Wednesday through Friday because I am in Kansas, Mo., working on math for the state of Washington.

Students in each group received a progress report or Tuesday or Wednesday. They need to be signed and returned to school the next day.

Thanks for your understanding.

Homework 9/22

Some students may have Number Corner homework today, if they did not finish it during math. They are working with place value (base 10 pieces, modern numbers and ancient egyptian symbols) and decimeters/centimeters. It is due tomorrow 9/23/11.

Off and Running!

Sorry I haven't been here for a while. It's been a very busy, but good, September. We have a wonderful fourth grade class and everyone is ready to learn!

Tonight is Curriculum. We'll be explaining all the fourth grade expectations for homework and fourth grade standards. I hope we have a big crowd!

I need to mention the homework we've had since school started. I am catching up, but promise to do a better job posting all homework assignments so parents and students can look it up when needed.

Sept. 8: Home Connection #4-Story Problems due 9/9/11
Sept. 14: Home Connect # 5-Area Models due 9/15/11
Sept. 15: Cracking the Code-Place Value due 9/16

Sept. 20: Factors of 36 and 48 with graph paper due 9/22/11
Except the Águila group who will get it 9/22 and it will be due 9/27

Sept. 21: The Jaguars may have 2 story problems that focus on patterns, if they did not finish it during iTime today. It is due 9/22.

Fourth Grade School Suplie List

FOURTH GRADE

Please have students write their names on their spiral notebooks and composition books only. We will be using the other supplies as a classroom.

3 dozen #2 pencils
1 box facial tissue (large)
If your last name begins with:
A-M 1 box gallon Ziploc bags
N-Z 1 box sandwich Ziplock bags
2 packages of pencil tip erasers
1-4 pack glue sticks
1 pair Fiskars scissors
3 spiral notebooks, wide-ruled
1 subject (min. 70 pg)
1 spiral notebook of square centimeter graph paper (math)
1 pencil box or zipper bag
1 set of colored pencils
1 pencil sharpener with lid
2 containers of Clorox or Lysol wipes

Note: PLEASE do not bring a 3-ring binder
not needed this year.

Lista de útiles escolares 2011-2012

3 docenas de lápices #2
1 cajas de Kleenex (grande)
A-M 1 pkg. bolsas de galon Ziploc
N-Z 1 pkg. bolsas de sandwich Ziplock
2 paquetes de borradores para poner en el lápiz
2 paquetes de 4 tubos de pegamento
1 par de tijeras
3 cuadernos de espiral, de rengión ancho (min. 70 hojas)
1 cuadernos de espiral para matemáticas con centímetros cuadrados
1 caja o bolsa con cierre para los lápices
1 caja de lápices de color
1 sacapuntas con tapadera
2 botes de toallitas de cloro o lysol
Nota: Por favor no traiga cartapacios de 3 anillos/no los ocuparemos esta año.

APPs for your iTouch or iPad

Did you know you can get free educational apps on your iTouch or iPad? Here are just a couple that I've found to help students:

*Awesome Flash Cards for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
*My Math Flash Cards
*ArithmeTick-Math Flash Cards
*Flash Cards by Parents

*iCaramba Spanish Course
*iCaramba Spanish Course Dictionary
*1000 Spanish (flash cards)

Great Books to Read Over the Summer

Mrs. Velázquez will be starting a new with the 4th and 5th grader during the 2011-12 school year...Battle of the Books. Here's what she says about it:

Battle of the Books.....
is a voluntary reading incentive program for students. A battle is a game, like the College Bowl, in which student teams earn points by answering questions on the reading list. Classroom teams compete at the end of each trimester and get to keep the Battle of the Books Trophy in their classroom for the following trimester.

What fourth grade teachers are saying about it:
This is a great way to try out different genres and leveled books. Students do not have to participate in Battle of the Books, but we will be reading several of the books, from the reading list, for homework and students will be creating end of the book projects (like diaramas) to demonstrate what they read.

First Trimester Book List
*Midnight-The New Prophecy Warriors Series, by Erin Hunter
*Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
*11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
*Revolutionary War on Wednesday, by Mary Pope Osborne
*Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
*Beastologist, by R.L. LaFevers
*The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
*Our Strange New Land-Elizabeth's Diary, by Patricia Hermes
*Riding Freedon, by Pam Muñoz Ryan
*Benjamin Franklin, by David Adler

Museum Field Trip

We had a great day at the museum today. Students learned a lot about David Thompson, the British explorer who traveled (and mapped) the entire Columbia River. Lewis and Clark even used some of his maps. I think everyone's favorite part of the field trip was paddling the canoes in the Columbia River. One canoe was "American" and one was "British." The American canoe won, when my group did it anyway. I hear the British won with other groups.