This week we are taking donations to help a 2nd grade classroom in Beaumont, Texas that lost everything due to the flood a few weeks ago.   If possible, please donate $1 to go toward supplies this school needs.  If our classroom raises $20, Mrs. Rock will match our donation!  Thank you in advance for your your help!

Thursday, Sept. 21- Fall pictures will be taken.  Ordering information was sent home yesterday.

Also on Friday, the multiplication fact re-test will be given.  I will take the highest grade scored from last week test and this week test.  Students who score below a 90 will receive a homework packet of fact practice pages the next week.

Tomorrow we will take our field trip to see MatheMagic! at the Belcher Center.  Buses will leave at 11:30.  Please wear a WO shirt and remember to bring a sack lunch & drink if you are not getting one from the cafeteria.

Math Learning Goals:

This week we will continue our study with place value.

Math Homework:

Study your multiplication facts!  Multiplication Quiz on Friday over all facts.  This one is for a grade!

Reminder:

$5 for the field trip is due this Friday, September 8th.

Math Learning Goals:

• Students will continue to read, write, and expand whole numbers through the billions place.
• Students will learn that the place value is 10 times the position to the right and  1/10 of the place to the left.

For example:  16,649    The 6 in the thousands place is ten times the value of the 6 in the hundred’s place.

The 6 in the hundred’s place is 1/10 the value of the 6 in the thousand’s place.

Math Homework:

Please study your 4’s, 3’s , 5’s  2’s and square multiplication facts.  We have a Multiplication Quiz Friday, September 8th. 

Math Learning Goals:

• I can describe the relationship between two place-value positions. * 10 times as much  or  * one-tenth of

Example:  6,643  The 6 in the thousands place is ten times as much as the 6 in the hundred’s place.

The 6 in the hundred’s place is one-tenth the value of the 6 in the thousand’s place.

• I can read, write, and expand whole numbers through the billions.

Math Homework:

Study your Multiplication Facts.

• Squares, 2’s and 5’s Multiplication  Quiz on Tuesday.
• Squares, 2’s, 5’s and 3’s Multiplication Quiz on Friday.

The majority of math-related stress in 4th grade students comes from the lack of knowledge of the basic multiplication facts.  It is EXTREMELY important that students become fluent in their facts so they can concentrate and spend time on the process of HOW to solve a problem, and not just spend all of their time trying to do the computation of the problem.

Below are some practice links to Quizlet.  Clicking on a link below will allow many options to practice a set of facts:  Flashcards, Learn, Test, Scatter, & Space Race.

• Parent Orientation is Tuesday, Aug. 29, from 6-7 pm in the cafeteria.  Everyone will meet first with Mrs. Rock and Mr. Camp, then we will break into grade-level groups.  Fourth grade will remain in the cafeteria.  This is an important informational meeting about the practices and procedures that are followed in the 4th grade.  Hope to see you there!
• Our first field trip will be Tuesday, September 12, to the Belcher Center on the campus of LeTourneau University.  We will be attending the show called MatheMagic!  Field trip permission forms will be sent home on Monday and will need to be returned as soon as possible.
• Graded paper binders will come home every Wednesday.  Please look over the work and sign the form at the front of the binder.  DO NOT REMOVE ANY PAPERS FROM THE BINDER.  The work will be sent home for you to keep at the end of each term.