A big thank you to all the parents who where able to come out to open house last week!! It was nice to get to meet each of you and share information that will help make this a successful year. Students received their planners last week so you should now see them coming home everyday with notes about what they need to be completing or studying. There is a place for parents and students to sign acknowledging the student code of conduct. Please take time to review the code of conduct with your child and sign the bottom of the page. Next Monday, September 19th the first progress report of the year will go home.
Math
We have taken our first test on place value, standard form, word form, expanded form, rounding, and comparing numbers. Student did well on most of the standards, however, many still struggled with writing a number in word form from the standard form. For example: 106, 542 should be written, one hundred six thousand, five hundred forty two. Many students wanted to write, one hundred thousand six thousand, five hundred forty two. They are not looking at the number by it's periods or "chunking" it as I try to explain it. We will continue to work on this skill during center time.
Students are now moving into a new topic in math which is addition and subtraction of multi-digit numbers with and without regrouping. We will begin with visual representations of how to add and subtract so they will understand what they are doing when we move to the standard algorithm.
Science
We are still in chapter one, The Practice of Science which is about how scientist's see the world and learn using the scientific method. You should see vocabulary cards come home this week to be completed.
Dates to Remember
Wed. Sept. 14.........................................................Early dismissal
Fri. Sept. 16 (during school day)............................Baseline Test Dance
Fri. Sept. 16 (after school)......................................Under the Sea Dance
Mon. Sept. 19..........................................................Progress Reports go home
Until next time,
R. O'Steen
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