Math Resources

Examples of Strategies Students Use in Grade 4

Division

Many of you have asked how you can support your student’s learning at home.  Here is an important way you can do that.

 

Go to www.learnzillion.com.  LearnZillion is a website that provides teachers and parents with video lessons showing what your student needs to learn each year.  The lessons include a 3-5 minute long lesson video, downloadable slides, and other resources for practice and assessment.

Divide two-digit dividends using friendly multiples

 

Report remainders as whole numbers by drawing pictures to decide whether to round up or down

 

 

Divide four-digit dividends

 

Quotient Cafe

Come join your friends at the Quotient Cafe, where all the food is served family style. Everyone sits at one table and shares the meal evenly. Use your division skills to figure out how much each character gets. Design your own situation with dinosaurs dividing waffles, penguins sharing apples, or many other situations.

 

 

 

 

Week of December 1st

Writing

• Take community profile graphic organizer and transfer into individual sentences
• Use sentences to complete an informational paragraph

Reading

• Review greed and generosity.  Read the Junior Great Books story, Prot and Krot
• Re-read Prot and Krot to mark the text where the characters make either a good decision or a bad decision
• Identify the theme in Prot and Krot

Math

• Apply place value understanding to convert metric units
• Use multiplicative reasoning to convert units of time

 

This video has several links to videos that explain how to solve multiplication problems using various methods.

Video Link

Multiplication Games

Click here
 

 

 

 

Measurement and Data Games

Click here

 

 

Red Ribbon Week is Next Week

Don't forget to sign up for conferences.  Click on the link below if you still need to sign up.  Thanks!

Ms. Marsh's Conferences

Week of October 20th

Math

We will represent and solve comparison word problems.

 

Spelling

Students were given their spelling works today. The next test is on Thursday, October 30th.

 

Grammar

Students will be studying run-on sentences this week.

 

Book It

Students should be reading 20 minutes each night and coloring in their Book It sheet. The Book It summary is due on October 30, 2014. Students will be awarded a free pizza for completing this program.

 

St. Mary's City Field Trip

Students need to be at Cloverly by 7:15 a.m. on Thursday, October 23rd. The buses will leave promptly at 7:30 a.m. and will return to Cloverly at 4:00 p.m. Please pick your child up immediately after we return from the field trip. Check out the website for more information: http://www.stmaryscity.org/

 

Halloween

The Halloween parade will start at 1:30 and the party will start at 2:00. Please wear school appropriate costumes if you are participating.

 

*I am still looking for any parents  that would like to help out with the party or donate items.  Please email me if you are interested.  Your help is very much appreciated.

Upcoming Events

Reading Night

Cloverly's Family Reading Night is October 22nd from 6:30 - 8:00 pm!  Wear your superhero costumes or your comfy pajamas and get ready for one of the best nights of the year!  Surprise readers will be there!  We will have amazing graphic novel-inspired crafts! How about a visit from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?  You don't want to miss it!  Preregister today!

Click here for the registration form.

Free Parent Workshop

NIH presents "Coping Strategies for Anxious Kids:  What Parents Need to Know"  This free workshop is Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 7-8:30 pm.  Registration is required.  Follow the link for more information.

Parent workshop information

Important Dates

Monday, October 13

Open House

 

Thursday, October 16

PTA Spirit Night

 

Friday, October 17

MSEA Conference - no school for students and teachers

 

Wednesday, October 22

Family Reading Night

 

Thursday, October 30

Halloween Celebration

 

Friday, October 31

Professional day for teachers (no school for students)

September 22-26

Reminders

• Half day on Wednesday (dismissal is at 12:35)
• No school on Thursday

Math

• Use estimation and mental math to see if answers are reasonable
• Use the standard algorithm to add multi-digit whole numbers

Reading & Writing

We are starting our first writing assignment.  Students will be researching the Colonial or Native American time period, concentrating on the setting.  This background research will help us to write our historical fiction stories.

Words Their Way

• Students were given new spelling words on Monday.  The next spelling test is on Friday, October 3rd.