Mrs. Flynn's 4th Grade Class: 2015

Friday, October 2, 2015

Walking the Number Line in Math

Classroom Updates!

Classroom Updates

I hope you are enjoying the changing colors of the leaves. As the days are getting chillier, please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for school. This may include a light jacket as the weather can be unpredictable at this time of year.

Subject	Learning Targets and Activities for week of: 10/5-10/9
Reading	We are moving into informational text and making inferences using scientific, technical, and historical text. We are also focusing on what happened and why, based on the information in the text. We will take a mini-summative on these skills Friday, October 9th.
Writing	In writing we are learning how to add dialogue to our personal narratives. Students are discovering interesting speaker tags to use when writing dialogue such as bellowed, hollered, and remarked. Grammar- We will continue to work on commas and quotations.
Word Study	No Excuse Words: sure, knew, it’s, try, told Feature Words: athlete, halfway, English, complete, inspect, children, create, trial, cruel, idea Change in date: Word Study Homework due-Wednesday, Oct 7th Quiz: Wednesday, October 7th
Math	We are continuing to prepare for our summative on 10/6 on multiplicative thinking in story problems, equations, and pictures. We will then begin understanding measurement and place value for our next unit. Homework due Friday, 10/9.
Content Areas	Social Studies: We are studying how where we live affects how we live. Students will be examining the land regions of Ohio and sorting the land by physical and human features. We also began examining the newspaper Ohio Studies Weekly (OSW). These newspapers are similar to TFK in which students are expected to read articles, answer questions, and code questions with an RT (right there), TS (think and search), AY (author and you), or OMO (on my own). Discussing the land regions of Ohio has helped prepare us to begin studying changes in the Earth’s surface in science. We will be building landforms out of clay as a first experiment.

Reminders & Important Information

Conference sign ups have been sent out via email or on sign up genius. If you didn’t receive a notice, please let me know asap to schedule a conference.

Our Fall Festival will take place on 10/30/15 at 1:15-2:00. Our parent helpers are busy preparing for this special day and are welcome to come in at 1:00 to set up. Please take note that according to our wellness committee there shall be no additional food sent in. Also, costumes should be simple with no masks, make-up, or props. All costumes should be brought to school in a bag for a quick change before the party. We will have students changed into their costumes before the party. Thank you to all party helpers in advance!

If you are interested in helping me sort, date, and order Scholastic Book Orders for our class, please let me know as any help would be greatly appreciated.

Important Dates:

Thursday, Oct. 15: End of the 1st Grading Period

Friday, Oct. 16: No School

Friday, Oct. 23: Report cards come home with students

Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day - No School for Students

Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving Break - No School

Friday, Dec. 18: End of 2nd Grading Period

Dec. 21 - Jan. 3: Winter Break - No School

Monday, Jan. 4: School Resumes

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Welcome New 4th Graders!

Welcome to my new 4th graders! It is going to be a special year for you especially in mathematics! We will have a lot of fun in our time together. Together, with Mrs. Voinovich, Mrs. Gagel, and I, we will enjoy many exciting learning experiences together. Just when you think you can't do something we want you to remember this phrase "I can't do this YET!".

Happy Learning!

Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Gagel’s
Math Facts

1. The “math gene” does not exist – YOU can be great at math even if your parents were not!

2. Your brain can be wired to do math!

3. Everyone does math, every day.

4. Girls are great at math. (BOYS, too!)

5. There is more than one way to solve a math problem.

6. Math struggles are real … but they can be overcome with perseverance.

7. Kids learn math best when they are allowed to discover their own approaches – and fail.

8. Math is not a competition.

9. Estimation is one of the most powerful math tools.

10. Math is about concepts, not right answers.