Ms. Mullins Grade 4/5 Class

Sunday, January 24, 2016

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Hard to believe that we are heading into the last full week of January. All of the students have been working really hard.
Grade 3/4- I would like to see all students practicing their facts nightly at home. Grade 3's need to be working on +/- facts to 18. Grade 4's should be practicing their multiplication and division facts to 81 on a nightly basis ( review of +/- will help as well). The grade 3's have been working on measurement using cm and m. We have been estimating the length of objects and have been measuring them as well. The concept of perimeter has taught as well. The grade 4s have been looking at the concept of area. We will be having a quiz either this Friday or Monday (31st).
Gr. 6's having been working on developing formulas for perimeter, area, and volume. They would have had previous exposure to all of these concepts in earlier grades. We have been working on what formula to use and when. We will be having a quiz on Friday on this concept. I will be offering an extra help class Tuesday at lunch for anyone feeling that they would like some help.
Have a great week everyone!

What a great first week back! The students worked so hard and I am so very proud of them.
Grade 3- Keep working on those adding and subtracting facts to 18 nightly. We have been working on division and will be having a quiz on Tuesday, Jan. 12.
Grade 4- I would like to see the gr. 4's working on their multiplication facts to 81 on a nightly basis. The hard work is paying off. I can see it! Please don't forget to keep up the adding and subtracting facts as well. The 4's quiz will cover their facts to 81 and the related division facts. For example: 36 divided by 4 equals 9. They should say to themselves "four times what equals 36?". I will ask some 2 and 3 digit multiplication questions too. We are starting division of larger numbers now too, but I won't be quizzing them yet.
Grade 6- The students have been working so hard on estimating, measuring, and drawing angles. We will be having a quiz on this outcome on Tuesday, Jan. 12. I have been reminding everyone to keep practicing their facts at home.
Have a wonderful week everyone!

I just wanted to make a quick note saying I did not send the gr. 3/4 quiz home yet. Between Xmas Concert, Amazing Race, and the last day of school, I did not get to see the 3/4's. I didn't think it would be a good idea to send them home on the last day. I will send them home the first day back in January!
Happy holidays and have a great New Year!

Gr.3/4 -We are continuing work with division and will continue into the new year. Please sign and return the quiz that went home with the students.
Gr. 6- We have started to look at estimating and measuring angles. We will continue these concepts along with drawing angles in the new year.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to 2016!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! The countdown to Christmas is on!
The grade 3/4's will be having a quiz on Friday. This will include: Gr.3- adding and subtracting facts to 18, and multiplication (drawing equal groups pictures, arrays, and repeated addition) up to products of 36. We are working through division, but I will not be assessing that outcome on Friday. The 4's will be assessed on multiplication facts to 81, I have been asking them to study their facts each night. Also, they will be completing 2 and 3 digit multiplication by 1 digit. I do not assign a lot of math homework, so I do expect that the students are taking 10 min each night to stay on top of adding, subtracting, and multiplication facts.
Grade 6's will be having a quiz on Friday (Dec. 11). This will include multiplication and division of decimals. It is very important for students to be reviewing math facts each night. We have noticed in class that sometimes our adding/subtracting facts cause us little errors, so reviewing these are very helpful too.
Have a great week everyone.

Grade 3/4- I would like to see everyone continue working on their math facts each night. The gr. 4's should be reviewing multiplication facts up to 9x9 each night. I will send home a multiplication handout next week with the grade 3's. Our focus in this grade is understanding the concept of what multiplication means by working with arrays, equal groupings (pictures), repeated addition, and skip counting. The 4's are learning 2 and 3 digit by 1 digit multiplication problems as well. I will introducing division in the next week or so.
Grade 6- should be reviewing math facts nightly. I told the class they were having a small quiz on factors, multiples, prime, and composite numbers tom. (Friday). They have been starting to work with multiplication of decimals. Estimation of where the decimal goes is a focus within this outcome. The students need to say to themselves "What makes sense here?"

I hope everyone has had a beautiful weekend! The weather is definitely becoming cooler out there.
Grade 3/4- We are continuing our work with skip counting by 3,4,10, 100 and 25's forward and backwards. The 3's are beginning to look at multiplication as equal groups, arrays, and repeated addition. For example, 3x5 would be 3 groups of five, 5+5+5, or an array that may look like this 3 rows of 5 *****
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We will be doing lots of practice drawing the equal group pictures and arrays to match the multiplication fact. The grade 4's will be doing the same except they will be working with math facts up to 9x9.
Grade 3/4 will be having a math quiz on their adding and subtracting facts to 18 on Wednesday.
Grade6- The grade 6's have been working on factors and multiples of numbers. Also, we have been learning about prime and composite numbers. I will be discussing an assignment with them Monday that I am thinking will be due on Thursday. It will be a math/art activity on multiples of a number.
Have a wonderful week everyone.