Have you walked by our classroom windows by the gym? You may have seen some posters warning you about the scary geometry monsters that were seen roaming the halls around Halloween! The fourth grade math students caught a glimpse of some of these crazy creatures and have created wanted posters so that the monsters can be stopped. You'll note there is a reward for their capture. Make sure to take a peek through some of the examples below and stop by our classroom to see even more. You could help us find and apprehend these beasts! Advanced Learning Plans (ALP) have all been emailed within the last 2 weeks. If you have not seen your child's ALP, check your email or let me know. I will be happy to email a copy again. I will remind you that one of the most important elements of the ALP is the box on the goals page that tells the services we will be providing at Werner this year. Feel free to email me questions, comments or concerns as you look these over. Included as the last page, you will notice a copy of the rubrics that we will be using to determine if your child has reached their goal. Below I have attached the academic goal rubrics for reading, math and creativity that we will use this year. Success criteria is listed in the box on the bottom of each form. If you have questions about affective goals and the rubrics associated with that, see my previous post (see Week 8 http://traceybean.weebly.com/blog/three-for-thursday-week-8) This week will be the first of the 2014-2015 Math Olympiad competitions for 4th and 5th grade. Students will have 25 minutes to solve 5 problems on their own. We will be participating in these competitions once every month November - March. Unfortunately, if students are absent for any reason, they are not allowed to make up that month's contest (the national competition rules state this.) At the end of the year, a trophy will be awarded to the student from Werner who gets the most problems correct throughout the year. Fifth grade will also have the opportunity to participate in a school-district sponsored team competition in May. We spend time in class practicing and working on problem solving skills to prepare for these. Here is the example problem we worked on this week (you'll have to email me your answer if you want to know if you are correct - or ask your 4th or 5th grade student!): Tracy's Trophies charges by the letter for engraving. There is one fee for each vowel and a different fee for each consonant. CAROL costs $31 to engrave. GABRIEL costs $43 to engrave. How many dollars does BRIDGET cost to engrave?
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