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Students in 4th & 5th will be taking their math pre-test on Tuesday, Feb. 16th. All unit 4 retest will be on Thursday, Feb. 18th & 19th. With all of the festivities last week my seconders will be finishing up their math test on Tuesday, Feb. 16th. Then, students will be taking their pre-test for unit 5 on Wednesday, Feb. 17th. In this new unit we will be having fun learning about "Planes and Solid Figures." See below for an overview of this new unit. All math retakes for 2nd grade will take place during the week of Feb. 22nd - 26th.
2nd Grade Math Unit 5 - Planes and Solid Figures In this unit students will cultivate spatial awareness by: • further developing understandings of basic geometric figures • identifying plane figures and solid figures based on geometric properties • describing plane figures and solid figures according to geometric properties • expanding the ability to see geometry in the real world • partitioning shapes into equal shares by cutting, slicing, or dividing • represent halves, thirds, and fourths using rectangles and circles to create fraction models • compare fractions created through partitioning same-sized rectangular or circular wholes in different ways • understand what an array is and how it can be used as a model for repeated addition • organize and record data using tallies, simple tables and charts, picture graphs, and bar graphs. 4th Grade Math Unit 5 - Fractions and Decimals OVERVIEW In this unit students will: ● express fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 as decimals ● understand the relationship between decimals and the base ten system ● understand decimal notation for fractions ● use fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 interchangeably with decimals ● express a fraction with a denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with a denominator 100 ● add fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 (including adding tenths and hundredths) ● compare decimals to hundredths by reasoning their size ● understand that comparison of decimals is only valid when the two decimals refer to the same whole ● justify decimals comparisons using visual model 5th Grade Math - Unit 4 Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying & Dividing Fractions Students will continue working on part 2 of unit 4 which will focus on multiplying and dividing fractions. Our unit 4 math part 2 test will be on Monday, Feb. 29th.- Mar. 2nd. The study guide will go home the week of Feb. 22nd. Please note parents that we have already started working on concepts in this portion of the unit as we were wrapping up part 1. Throughout both reading groups in 2nd and 4th grades I will be conducting an IDI (Informal Decoding Inventory) assessment for the next couple of weeks which will help me to pinpoint any areas of weakness across all sectors of reading development. I.E. Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc. to determine what areas of intensive remediation that I need to focus on with my reading students. 4th Grade Reading Students will be reviewing the skill of inferring using hands on mentor text examples. This standard below is an ongoing concept that students tend to have difficulty grasping initially, but with consistent practice they will utilize it in everyday life. As a review to infer means to draw conclusions. Sometimes it can be implicitly or explicitly stated by the author. In this standard we will focus on information that is directly stated and what it means based on the information or clues that the author to express meaning. As for the other standard below main idea and key details, which is also an ongoing concept. Students will use fiction/non-fiction mentor text to discover what the main idea is and then identify the key details that tells more about the main idea. I like to think of main idea as the main location that you want to travel to and the key details as the signals along the way that let's you know that you are heading in the right direction. ELACCRI1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. ELACC4RI2: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. Well, until next time when you stop by to take a peek into our world.
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