Dec. 14, 2017

Parents,

The homework tonight is pg. 239 - 240 on subtracting the divisor from the dividend to get the quotient to the division problem. The video below will assist you in helping your child if needed.

Reminder that tomorrow is the gift exchange and the building of the gingerbread house.

Have a good night.

Dec.13, 2017

Parents,

The homework tonight is to complete pg.231 - 232 in their math book on division using the distributive property. The link below should help assist your child if they are having difficulty understanding the concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Fy8InDygs

Have a good night.

Dec. 12, 2017

Parents,

The homework tonight for math is pg.225 - 226 on estimating quotients using compatible numbers. You are welcome to watch the video below if you need assistance on this lesson.

We still need supplies for the gingerbread house project. Please see the G Force Gazette for the list or check out yesterday's blog post.

Have a good night.

Dec. 11, 2017

Parents,

The students have to complete pg. 219 - 220 in their math book for homework on division with tens, hundreds, and thousands. They basically have to ignore the zeros for a moment and do the division. Then add the zeros to their quotient. A video is provided for assistance. 

The following information below is what was on this week's G Force Gazette.

Neighborhood News

• We are doing a gift exchange and a STEM project this week. A note went home last week on this.
• Our SMART goal this year is to increase multiplication fluency so that every student has mastered their multiplication facts. This week we will be targeting fours. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• The gift exchange is meant to be silly and fun so gifts don’t need to be special or valuable. Have your child wrap something they already own and don’t use or play with anymore.
• Please encourage students to take reading counts tests as they complete their books throughout the year. Reading counts points are being calculated for neighborhood recognition.
• If you need to contact any of us, the quickest way is probably through email. Our emails are as follows: charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• If your child will be absent from school, please let the office know with a call, email, or note. You can email the school at CESattendance@am.dodea.edu
• New DODEA rules prohibit food for birthdays so please do not send in cupcakes or other food for your child.

Weekly Homework:

Monday:

• Math homework pg.219 - 220 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.225 - 226 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.231 - 232 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.239 - 240 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Important Dates

Due by Dec.15th

Supplies For Our Gingerbread House STEM Project

Due by Dec.15th

Gift for Gift Exchange

Dec.16th - Jan.1st

No School - Holiday Break

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are continuing chapter 4 on division. We should get through lessons 4.4 through 4.7 this week. They will be dividing tens, hundreds, and thousands, estimating quotients using compatible numbers, investigating division using the distributive property, and dividing using repeated subtraction.

Science/ Social Studies:

Students will continue working on the Alien PBL Project.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is still  working on drawing conclusions. The grammar skill is irregular plural nouns and they are writing personal narratives about something that happened last week at school.

Gingerbread STEM Project:

Our student groups always benefit from having an adult assistant while we build and you are welcome to help them this Friday morning between 8:45 to 11. We still need the following supplies for it: Graham crackers, small marshmallows, small pretzel sticks, Lifesavers, Twizzlers, small candy canes, Gumdrops, jelly beans, M & M’s, Skittles, and Smarties.

Dec.8, 2017

Parents,

There is no homework to be turned in this weekend. They can continue to practice their multiplication facts on 4's and read. The following video is review of multiplicative comparisons from earlier in the year.

Have a good weekend.

Dec. 7, 2017

Parents,

The students have math homework on pgs. 207 - 208 on division with remainders. If assistance is needed, please click the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLWXWwz8B7M

Have a good night.

Dec. 5, 2017

Parents,

There is no homework from the math book due to us finishing up the chapter 3 test from Friday and completing the pretest for chapter 4. Below you will find the G Force Gazette news for the week. 

Neighborhood News

• We are doing a gift exchange and a STEM project. Please see the attached sheet.
• Our SMART goal this year is to increase multiplication fluency so that every student has mastered their multiplication facts. This week we will be targeting fours. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• There have been changes to math so you can expect homework on Wednesdays, as well.
• Please encourage students to take reading counts tests as they complete their books throughout the year. Reading counts points are being calculated for neighborhood recognition.
• The Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is a test that students will take each quarter to measure your child’s reading level. SRI growth is usually related to continual reading.  The more a student reads, the better reader they will become.  
• If you need to contact any of us, the quickest way is probably through email. Our emails are as follows: charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• If your child will be absent from school, please let the office know with a call, email, or note. You can email the school at CESattendance@am.dodea.edu
• New DODEA rules prohibit food for birthdays so please do not send in cupcakes or other food for your child.

Weekly Homework:

Monday:

• No School For Students
• 
  

Tuesday:

• No math pages for homework since we finished the ch.3 test and did the pretest
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.201 - 202 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s
• 
  

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.207 - 208 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s
• 
  

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 4’s

Important Dates

Dec.4th

No School For Students

Dec. 6th

Wednesday Early Dismissal

Due by Dec.15th

Supplies For Our Gingerbread House STEM Project

Due by Dec.15th

Gift for Gift Exchange

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are beginning chapter 4 on division. We should get through lessons 4.1 through 4.3 this week. They will be estimating quotients using multiples, completing basic division with remainders, and interpreting the remainder.

Science/ Social Studies:

Students will go back to working on the Alien PBL Project researching their region to answer questions like: How will you find/or make food? How will you travel around your region? How will you divide up the resources you have?

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is still  working on drawing conclusions. The grammar skill is irregular plural nouns and they are writing personal narratives about something that happened last week at school.

During the week of December 11th, there are a few special activities that fourth grade would like to do.

1. Gift Exchange: This is an activity that is meant to be silly and fun, so gifts don’t need to be special or valuable. Your child can just wrap a toy or item that they already own and that they don’t use or play with anymore.  Please don’t feel like you need to go out and buy a gift!  (If you really can’t think of anything and plan on buying something, please don’t spend more than $5.) We will do the gift exchange on Friday, December 15th, which is the last day before the break. Please bring the wrapped gift anytime that week.

2. Gingerbread House STEM Project:  We will also be doing a STEM project that involves building a gingerbread house. We begin the planning for our structure on Thursday December 14th, and we will be building it Friday December 15th from 8:45 to 11:00.

For this project, we need:

**Volunteers!  Our student groups always benefit from having an adult assistant while we build. You are welcome to help them on that Friday morning.

**Supplies! In order to construct the houses, we need a lot of materials. We are asking you to bring in one (or some!) of the following items.

Graham crackers

Marshmallows

Pretzel sticks

Lifesavers

Twizzlers

Candy canes (small)

Gumdrops

Jelly beans

M & M’s

Skittles

Smarties

Gallon sized freezer bags

Plastic bowls

**Frosting makers--We are also asking for a few brave parents to put together some icing. The stiff icing recipe is listed below. We will need about 18 bags.  Please let us know if you’re willing to help out with this.

Royal Icing Recipe #1

• 1 pound of confectioners sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3 egg whites

Beat slowly until stiff peaks form. Put icing in a gallon sized plastic bag.

Thank you so much for your support and for making these activities successful and fun for the students. If you have questions, please let us know.

The G Force