Archive for September, 2008

September 29-October 3

Monday, September 29th, 2008

MATH
We will be working on the first 4 lessons of chapter four. Students will learn what an expression and an equation are in algebra and will be learning to write expression and equations for story problems. Problem-solving is a very important skill. We have talked about the problem-solving steps:
1–Understand the problem
2–Plan how you will solve [...]

September 22-25

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

No School on Friday, the 26th.  Teacher Work Day.
Thanks to everyone who supported the Fundraiser! 
Math–We are finishing the unit on rounding, estimating, and adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals.  Test on Wednesday.  We will be doing an investigation into “Palindrome Numbers” on Thursday. Students may come home over the weekend with some extra-challenging math [...]

September 15-19

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Fundraiser money is due on Wednesday the 17th for the $10 Tiger Cards.
MATH
We will be working on rounding, estimating and reviewing addition/subtraction of larger numbers and decimals with Chapter 3.
WORD STUDY
We will be taking notes over easily misspelled and confused basic Core Words. Students will also have a dictation test where they are allowed to [...]

September 8-12

Monday, September 8th, 2008

MATH
This week we are finishing up our unit on decimals (Chapters 1-2) We will begin the week with a lesson re-teaching some of the concepts from lesson 2.1 that caused problems for students last week. We used 100 grids to color decimal numbers last week and students were asked to take their work home to [...]

September 2-5

Monday, September 8th, 2008

This week in Math we are reviewing multiplication facts as well as working on lessons 2.1-2.4 on decimal place value. We will be taking our first test next Wednesday over the material covered in Chapters 1 & 2.  (There are review pages in the back of each chapter)
In Word Study, we are continuing our work [...]