Math Homework

Fact Masters

A bit overdue: Sorry Kiddos...

Our Newest Xtra Math fact Masters:

JaeHwan is an addition master!
JaeNa and Evan are subtraction masters!
And... Lukas is a multiplication master!!

WOOOOHOOOOO Congratulations! One step closer to not having to practice on it anymore ;)

Math Homework Thursday May 2

PG 7 #3-6

Science Test Friday

What it covers:

4 Properties of light:

1. Light can be absorbed
2. It moves in a straight line
3. It can be refracted
4. It can be reflected

4 Properties of sound:

1. Sound travels in waves;
2. Sound is caused by vibrations;
3. Sound can be absorbed and reflected;
4. Sound can be modified;

Artifical and Natural light - Give examples of each.

Difference between pitch and volume (think back to our musical instruments and what you learned in Ms. Soltes' class).

LED versus Incandescent Lights - which are better and why? Check out this comparison if you need help: https://www.viribright.com/lumen-output-comparing-led-vs-cfl-vs-incandescent-wattage/

Light and sound are Energy! They travel in waves, but we cannot see it without the use of specialized machines. 

Sound has Vibrations and solids absorb sound better than soft or liquid objects.

What absorbs light better? Light or dark colors? What reflects better? Light or dark colors?

What happens to light when it hits water? Does it reflect? Bend (refract)? Nothing?

Remember: I have posted a lot of science videos, and we have done many labs testing light and sound. Please look back at it all to help you answer these questions if you are a bit hazy!

Homework Monday April 29th

Reading Comprehension - Entire Booklet: Determining Important Information

Paragraph of the Week - Should students have more recess time? - Final copy & drawing due tomorrow.

You have had plenty of time to work on the paragraphs and should be done by now. Please get them done or you will be spending recess with me!

What Forgiveness Means To Me..

We will be presenting tomorrow at the assembly..

So time to make a video.. on what forgiveness means to us!!

Opinion Writing and Main Ideas

What is the MAIN IDEA of the following paragraphs?

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Math Homework

Don't forget to finish for tomorrow! Patterns Page 5 #3-6

Sound Vibrations & The Ear

The Four Properties of Sound:

1. Sound travels in waves
2. Sound is caused by vibrations
3. Sound can be absorbed and reflected
4. Sound can be modified

Also.. Look how your eyes work!

Extra Patterns Math Help

Here is a great booklet you can print and work through at your own pace! It will help you in our Patterns unit, but also when we begin our algebra unit later in the year!

Grade 4 Patterns Extra Practice Booklet

Earth Day 2019

Here's the Earth Day song if you want to keep listening to it and reminding yourself what you need to do to help the earth!

Remember we can:

1. Reduce our footprint
2. Use less energy - turn off the lights!
3. Use less water - don't let the faucet run, take shorter showers
4. Use reusable containers for lunches
5. Don't use plastic bags, straws etc. Find reusable ones
6. Pick items that have parts we can reuse - ie: get a metal or glass reusable drink container, not plastic!
7. Use both sides of the paper, recycle our paper, and don't waste it!
8. And so much more!

What other ways can you help Mother Earth?

Mr. DeMaio's Awesome Videos

So remember our Top Bunk, Bottom Bunk Continents video... he has more! For all the multiplication facts! Check him out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyVRKfytvjSF6q5s7noKZQ

Second Page of our Paragraph writing

Please finish the first 4 sections: Topic Sentence, and 3 supporting details:

Main Ideas and Extreme Weather

What is the difference between a Hurricane or a Typhoon? While we were working on finding our main ideas and details, we also started wondering about extreme weather and how to stay safe during lightning storms! Here's the videos!

Wangari's Trees of Peace

For more information: https://www.smore.com/61ag-wangari-s-trees-of-peace

Masters of....

Congrats to our latest Masters of Addition: Evan & Tanishka!
Our Masters of Subtraction: Lukas!
And our latest master of Multiplication: Yiang Yang!!
Wooooooo!! Keep up the awesome work team!

Growth Mindset

Stretch your brain and increase those brain muscles! Here's the book again in case you want to read it!

Remember you have a math test on Monday! You need to be able to:

• Estimate numbers to find the sum (+) and difference (-)
• Add and subtract showing your work and your steps (borrowing, carrying)
• Find out the amount of change/bills you should get back when you purchase something. 

You can spend some time reviewing the homework I've posted, working with money, or practicing on Prodigy or Freckle. Remember, when we did our Plickers reviews you should know where you struggled to ensure that is where you continue practicing!

***REMEMBER: You need to read the question, to ensure you are answering it correctly.. like: Estimate, THEN calculate!

Save the Rainforest!

Today we learned a bit about the different rainforests around the world. They are all over and close to the equator. Costa Rica, Brazil, Madagascar, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and of course... MALAYSIA all have rainforests. We need to be careful about what we do so that we do not help the destruction of the rainforests around the world. We need them because they produce... oxygen!

Wonder Update

We are halfway through our "Wonder" read aloud. Yesterday we read a quote that really stuck with me.. sometimes we need to apologize and say sorry if we have hurt somebody, even though we didn't mean to. They still got hurt!

Math Homework

We are going to bump the Math test to Monday, seeing we had a few away today who didn't get to review for it. Please ensure all the questions are done, so we can use our "Plickers" to review tomorrow. Questions #2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12.

Working With Money

Math Test friday on Adding and Subtracting, estimating, and working with money. Remider: If you want your addition quiz grade improved, I need the quiz back with all corrections by tomorrow! Your money worksheet it due for tomorrow. Here is a review of what we covered today!

Where the Wild Things Are..

https://youtu.be/by1syKR4KRk

Money Money Money

We are continuing to work with money and building change when we buy things at the store.. You are going to buy some toys today and use some fake bills to find the change you would be given back. Remember to practice out with your parents when you are buying groceries, or going out for meals! It will help you get better, so nobody rips you off!

The Bully Goat Grim

I forgot to post this.. but incase you want to watch again.. We love the Bully Goat Grim story!

Continents of the World

Congratulations YinHao, Yiang Yiang, and Emily

Wowza!! Our first Master of Everything.. EMILY!!! She made it through and doesn't need to play on XtraMath anymore.. well done Emily!

Joining her this week is YinHao in Addition and Yiang Yang in Subtraction..

Keep up the amazing work ladies and gentlemen!

Visualization and History

Today we did a walk back in time on the same spot, hundreds to thousands to millions of years ago. We worked on visualizing the words as they are read to us, and then checking the pictures to see if it matches what we visualized. It is crazy how much the world can change, and how each spot, like our classroom, could have been underwater, a mountain, or maybe a volcano many, many, MANY years ago (or maybe all of the above).

Crazy Hair Day

Interrupting Chicken

We kick off our Spring into Reading month with an Interrupting Chicken..
Just like our Volcanoes that we've been working on.. this time.. it's an interrupting chicken we have to deal with!

The Juice Box Bully

We need UPSTANDERS not BYSTANDERS!
#bookaday

Homework Alert

Students! You have a Venn Diagram to finish for social studies.
You need at least 5 things for "people of the past" and 5 things for "People today." As well as 3 things for the middle section, which is common to both people in the past and people today. You should be writing it in full sentences! I have posted the sheet on Class Dojo if it somehow doesn't make it home, ask your parents!

There are pictures below you can review or check more into if you need help comparing the two!!

The Recess Queen

#bookaday challenge - Still on the Anti-Bullying Month with this one with a "Mean Jean!"

Ancient Civilizations

Take a look at these pictures depicting the lives in ancient civilizations. We are going to be talking about ancient history... what does history even mean?

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

Our #bookaday readaloud for today - We will be reading a book a day (especially for our Spring into Reading Month!)

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

New Math Masters!

A belated congrats to Evan for passing addition and congratulations to Emily, she's flew through subtraction and multiplication!! Wow!!

Math Homework

All questions due on Monday!

Be Kind

My Mouth is a Volcano!

We have a couple "Volcano Mouths" in our classroom, what can we do so our mouths don't erupt?

Sound can be absorbed and reflected

Two more properties of sound:
1. Sound can be absorbed
2. Sound can be reflected (also known as an ECHO!)

Stick and Stone

We read and discussed this book today.. here is is so you can share it with family and friends!

Math Homework

Reminder: you should ALSO be reading EVERY night on Raz Kids!! Plus practicing your flashcards and/or XtraMath! The more you practice the better you get.. at everything!

FANBOYS

For - And - Nor - But - Or - Yet - So

Congrats to Emily and Christian!!

Christian is our first master of subtraction and Emily is our newest master of addition!! Good job guys!! And some of you are sooooo close to joining them!! Keep up the good work :)

Math Homework

Incase the worksheets never made it home:

Math Homework for Tonight

I've made a few notes for some of the students in their books that they need to fix. Here is the homework page. They need to do 3-6 and use our estimation strategies, not just add it.

Due Friday.

Addition & Estimation

Alright, I've had a change to look over our Addition Math pretests! Most of you did amazing! Some of you already know a lot of the concepts we will be covering this year! Yay!! However, there were a couple places we struggled.

Did you know that the words sum, add, addition, plus are all SYNONYMS!! This means they all mean the same thing! We want to find the SUM of two or more numbers, we find it by doing ADDITION!
Here is a few more that you can look for in your word problems/story problems:

Estimation was somewhere many of us struggled with, so that is what we will be learning about today.

When we estimate a number, we are making a guess at what the number will be close to by using clues that are provided.

For example: If I want to estimate about how many beads I have to make a necklace. I have 34 BLUE beads, 79 PURPLE beads, 29 GREEN beads, and 56 ORANGE beads, I can round these numbers to make it easier for me to add in my head:

Around:
30 Blue beads
80 Purple beads
30 Green beads
60 Orange beads
I can now add in my head: 30+80+30+60 is around 200 beads! 

What about for the larger numbers we have been using?

Mr. Dan had 1445 books and Mrs. Taylor had 791 books. Estimate how many books the grade 3 teachers had altogether.

We can estimate to the nearest 1000, nearest 500, and nearest 100.

Nearest 1000:
Mr. Dan has about 1000 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 1000 books, so they have around 2000 books altogether. 
Nearest 500:
Mr. Dan has about 1500 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 1000 books, so they have around 2500 books altogether
Nearest 100:
Mr. Dan has about 1400 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 800 books, so they have around 2400 books altogether.

Which estimation is the closest or most accurate?

For some extra help head over to BrainPop for videos and games:
https://www.brainpop.com/math/geometryandmeasurement/estimating/
or Scholastic Study Jams
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/math/addition-subtraction/estimate-sums-diffs.htm

Sentence Fragments - Synonyms & Antonyms

We are on Day 2 of our Weekly Language Review!

On Day 2 we learn about:

1. Root Words: This is the word without a suffix or prefix - like the word "Elect" is the root word of "Election" or "Dance" is the root word of dancing, danced, dances.
2. Idioms: A combination of words that have a different FIGURATIVE meaning than the implied LITERAL meaning. For example, when we say "Cool as a cucumber" we don't mean you are cold like a cucumber that has been in the fridge.. we mean your are stay cool or chill, not freaking out!
3. Synonyms: We can use a thesaurus to find the synonyms of words. Synonyms are other words we can use that mean the same thing. For example for funny we can use: hillarious, or goofy, or comedy.
4. Antonyms are the opposite of synonyms - they mean the opposite of the word - For example the opposite of cool is warm, happy and sad, mean and nice.

Sentence Fragments

Remember: A subject is what we are talking about in our sentence, and a predicate is what the subject is doing (usually a verb or action word). To have a complete sentence we need both the subject and predicate or we call it a sentence fragment!