Quick note on conferences... If you did not get a chance to meet with me, I am still happy to set up a time for us to chat. I can also email thoughts about your child's progress in my class. Let me know if you are curious. I am headed out of town this afternoon for the rest of the week/weekend (my grandmother died last weekend - not unexpected, but still sad.) Then I am out of the building on Monday and Tuesday for the Colorado Gifted conference and gone on Thursday for a Math Textbook Adoption meeting all day. So if you would like to meet, please let me know a day before school after October 27 that might work for you. Let me provide a quick update on where each class is in terms of our curriculum plan for the year: 5th grade Math - We are just finishing up our unit on decimals (mostly on addition, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals.) Our test will probably be on Thursday of next week. We'll then learn about the Stock Market for about a week so we can begin the Stock Market game which will be ongoing for the rest of the year. 4th grade Math - We just took a test on our review unit for place value, addition, subtraction, and data collection. Our next unit is a quick one to review the basics of multiplication and division, as well as order of operations and solving inequalities. 3rd grade Math - This group will take their test over the review unit on place value, addition, and subtraction on Tuesday. Our next unit will be looking at measurement (linear, perimeter, area, etc.) 5th grade Language Arts/Creativity - We are continuing our work on Greek & Latin roots for the year. The kids are also reading mystery novels for literature circles. I thought that seemed fun for the Halloween season! 4th grade Language Arts/Creativity - They will be returning to their time with me on October 26. 3rd grade Language Arts/Creativity - Students will be spending one more week with me where we will be finishing our reading of The Green Book. We'll read and discuss to close our time together until we meet again on November 30. I try to make math learning more fun than just dry, boring worksheets of problems all the time. There is a time and place for that in math to simply practice, but in both 4th and 5th grade math lately I have used a sharing strategy called graffiti wall. I just wanted to show you a few examples of their creativity when reconstructing a problem that has lots of different answers. Also this week, 4th grade math students got to have some fun with data collection (and then mean, median, and mode based on that data collection.) They tried to stack a pile of Smarties as tall as they could. After six attempts, they recorded their tries and got to work tabulating the math. Why not have do math and eat it too? (More pictures on the photos page.)
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