Homework for September 30 weekend

We have been learning about the 4 zones of Regulation. Ask your child to explain what we have been discussing about these 4 zones in class. Students will fill in a sheet this weekend, explaining times they have been in one of the zones (feeling the way described for each zone) and how they moved out of that zone. 

As well, students have a review worksheet on whole numbers.

 

Homework Throughout the Year

Each morning students will be responsible for writing their agenda messages and homework as soon as they sit down. I will then circulate the room and sign the agendas. If there is no homework, students will write "no homework" as their message and I will sign this message, acknowledging that they do not have any homework for the evening. If the students do have homework assigned, it is expected that they bring their work home with them to finish it for the next day (or the due date if specified). If students have finished their work in class, I still expect them to bring it home in order for someone at home to check over their work and see some of what we are learning about in class. I tell students that they should be proud to bring it home and show their families that they are working hard at school! If there is a problem getting homework accomplished (after school sports and lessons, unexpected excursions from home, or difficulties with the work), please write a note to me in the students agenda explaining why the homework was not able to be accomplished that night. I hope this helps to explain what is expected for the homework this year.

Homework September 29

I have assigned the students practice math homework tonight. They are to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand (and ten thousand for grade 5 students). Please give students numbers for them to practice rounding to each of these places. If you would like to make it more enjoyable for the students you could have them create the number by rolling a die (we did this in class), or choose the digits to use from a hat, with each digit 0-9 written on a pice of paper. Students should practice for 10 - 20 minutes to build upon what they have been learning in class. Please refer to my previous post to see the 4 steps we have been using to round our numbers.

Rounding Numbers

We have now begun work on rounding numbers. I have showed the students 2 strategies they may use to round the numbers and they may use either of these strategies, or any other successful strategies that work best for them. The first strategy I taught them involves using two of the digits together to decide if they will stay in the same "ten" or round up to the next ten. I have broken it into four steps, which I have posted in a chart in class (and will post it below). The second way I showed the students is the way shown in the textbook using all of the digits to the right of the digit to decide if it should remain the same digit, or be rounded up to the next ten/ hundred/ thousand/ ten thousand.

Math: Representing Numbers

We have begun the year in math representing numbers in different ways. The grade 4 students have been working with numbers up to 10 000, while the grade 5 students have been working with numbers up to 100 000. Below I have included our anchor chart with the examples of the different forms we have been using to represent numbers.  Students should also be able to identify how much each digit is worth (it's value) in a given number. For example, in the number 3572 the 7 is worth 70, the 3 is worth 3000, the 5 is worth 500, and the 2 is worth 2. Students should practice identifying these digits in numbers and representing numbers in the different ways we have discussed.

Welcome to our Class Blog!

Hello students and families! Welcome to the blog page for Mr. Saunders' Grade 4/5 class. I am very excited to be teaching at Sandwich West this year. The purpose of this blog is to update families on classroom events, curriculum information, upcoming homework assignments and tests. I also plan on including pictures of student activities so that families may see the students in their classroom learning environment. I hope to make this blog both informative and enjoyable. Thanks for checking out the blog.