Dear Parents, September 15, 2013
I have had the pleasure of meeting and working with your children these past couple of weeks and have gotten to know some of their likes and dislikes and who they are. We are currently working on clearing out the garden beds at the school and are getting ready to hopefully add some more soil and fertilize the beds. It is our hope to plant some strawberry plants, and other flowers, etc. with the other classes. We have been working on place value, the standard and expanded form of writing out our whole numbers up to the million's place value. We had taken a pre-assessment in math and have gone over the strengths and weaknesses of our assessment and will continue to work on strengthening the weaknesses this nine weeks. We will be looking at multiplication and division of two and three digit number and start examining the place value of decimals in both fourth and fifth grade. We have almost finished writing a 5 paragraph paper on things that the children liked and had brought to school. We will continue our writing in creating a narrative 5 paragraph paper in the future. The fourth graders have started to read a book called "The Homework Machine" and the fourth and fifth grade have been working on their presentation of anti-bullying, writing skits and thinking of other ways to present their information that we will be researching. We have also been reading short stories of about 5 or 6 paragraphs while analyzing, generalizing, Inferring and looking at the literary elements, and discussing the themes of the two articles.
Thank you,
Alison Zdan
I have had the pleasure of meeting and working with your children these past couple of weeks and have gotten to know some of their likes and dislikes and who they are. We are currently working on clearing out the garden beds at the school and are getting ready to hopefully add some more soil and fertilize the beds. It is our hope to plant some strawberry plants, and other flowers, etc. with the other classes. We have been working on place value, the standard and expanded form of writing out our whole numbers up to the million's place value. We had taken a pre-assessment in math and have gone over the strengths and weaknesses of our assessment and will continue to work on strengthening the weaknesses this nine weeks. We will be looking at multiplication and division of two and three digit number and start examining the place value of decimals in both fourth and fifth grade. We have almost finished writing a 5 paragraph paper on things that the children liked and had brought to school. We will continue our writing in creating a narrative 5 paragraph paper in the future. The fourth graders have started to read a book called "The Homework Machine" and the fourth and fifth grade have been working on their presentation of anti-bullying, writing skits and thinking of other ways to present their information that we will be researching. We have also been reading short stories of about 5 or 6 paragraphs while analyzing, generalizing, Inferring and looking at the literary elements, and discussing the themes of the two articles.
Thank you,
Alison Zdan