Feb.28, 2018

Parents,

There is no math homework tonight. Your child can still read for at least 20 minutes tonight and practice their multiplication facts, if needed.

Have a good night.

Feb.27, 2018

Parents,
The following video is on 7.4 which is on subtracting fractions with like denominators using models. Please feel free to check it out if you need to. Have a good night.

Feb.26, 2018

Parents,

The students learned about adding hundredths of a fraction by converting tenths into hundredths and then adding them. Their homework is Lesson 12 which was material they need to know that was not in their Go Math book. The following video will assist you, if needed. This week's G Force Gazette is posted below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yKX79mpgcQ

Neighborhood News

• This is Read Across America Week.
• Friday we are celebrating by having students bring in their favorite Dr. Seuss book to complete a book review on it.
• Please check the 4th grade blog for updates and assistance in homework at www.gforceeagles.blogspot.com
• 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 nines. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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 Lesson 12
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts if you don’t have them memorized

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.407 and 408
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts if you don’t have them memorized

Wednesday:

• No math homework
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts if you don’t have them memorized

Thursday:

• Math homework Lesson 19
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts if you don’t have them memorized

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts

Important Dates

Read Across America Week

Feb.26th

Wear Crazy Socks

Feb.27th

Wear Red, White and Blue or your Crossroads Shirt

Feb.28th

Wear Your PJ’s

Mar.1st

Spring Picture Day

Mar.2nd

Bring Your Favorite Dr.Seuss book to school

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students will be learning fractional tenths and hundredths, subtracting fractions using models, and adding and subtracting mixed numbers.

Science/ Social Studies:

We are bouncing back to science, specifically magnets. They are learning about what objects are attracted to magnets and magnetic fields.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is graphic sources as we read the story Eye of the Storm. The grammar skill is past, present, and future tense verbs and they will be writing a fantasy story.

Feb. 22, 2018

Parents,

The math homework was on adding fractions with models. They have to complete pg.401 and 402 for homework tonight. The video below will assist you, if needed.

Have a good night.

Feb. 21, 2018

Parents,

There is no math homework tonight due to us doing some review stations in math today. Hopefully by now your child knows their multiplication facts or they can continue to practice them. They should also continue to read every night for at least 20 minutes. Below you will find this week's G Force Gazette.

Neighborhood News

• Club picture day is this Thursday.
• Please check the 4th grade blog for updates and assistance in homework at www.gforceeagles.blogspot.com
• 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 nines. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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: President’s Day - No School

Tuesday: Teacher Workday - No School

Wednesday:

• No Math Homework due to stations
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.401 - 402 to review concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Important Dates

Feb.21st

Normal Wednesday Early Out

Feb.22nd

Club Pictures

Next Week

Read Across America (See Parent Email For Details)

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students will be reviewing math concepts in stations on equivalent fractions and decomposing fractions. On Thursday we will be covering 7.3 on adding fractions using models and we will have our last PARCC practice test on Friday.

Science/ Social Studies:

We are learning about government, specifically the branches, the levels, the constitution, Bill of Rights, and a few other concepts. They are pretending to be either the mayor, governor, or president where they choose a few changes to make and write it in a brochure to their fellow citizens.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is still making generalizations  while we read different articles. The grammar skill is subject verb agreement and they will also be answering different writing prompts throughout the week.

Feb.15, 2018

Parents,

Due to the PARCC practice testing, there is no homework in math tonight. Students should continue to practice their multiplication facts on nines and read for at least 20 minutes. Have a good night.

Feb.14, 2018

Parents,

The students need to complete some review problems in preparation for the test this Friday on all of chapter 6 and three lessons from chapter 7. They started the work during class but need to finish any problems for homework that they didn't finish in class. The problems they had to do are: # 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 19, and 21 from pg. 447 - 452 and # 1 - 18 from pg.377 - 382. Thank you.

Feb.13, 2018

Parents,

The homework tonight is on changing a mixed fraction to a fraction greater than 1 and changing a fraction greater than 1 to a mixed fraction. You probably grew up with it being called, "changing a mixed fraction to an improper fraction and an improper fraction to a mixed fraction." We taught them the strategy you learned growing up and the Go Math strategy. The video below should help you assist your child, if needed.

Have a good night.

Feb.12, 2018

Parents,

The homework tonight is pg.395 - 396 on decomposing fractions as they write fractions as sums. The video below will assist you, if needed. You will also find the G Force Gazette below, as well.

Neighborhood News

• If you haven’t done so already, please sign the cover your child’s report card was in and return to their teacher.
• Students may exchange Valentine’s Day cards with their classmates. Remember, due to the CES Wellness Plan, candy is NOT allowed.
• Please check the 4th grade blog for updates and assistance in homework at www.gforceeagles.blogspot.com
• 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 nines. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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.395 and 396 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.421 and 422 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.377 - 382 to review concepts in preparation for the test
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Thursday:

• PARCC Practice Test
• No homework pages.
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Friday:

• Test (all of chapter 6, and 7.1, 7.2, and 7.6)

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Important Dates

Feb.14th

Normal Wednesday Early Out

Exchange Valentine’s Cards if Desired

Feb.16th

Math Test - Ch.6, plus 7.1, 7.2, and 7.6

Feb.19th

No School - President’s Day

Feb.20th

No School - Teacher Training

Educational Targets:

Math:

Due to the two hour delay and the PARCC practice last week, we will be completing a few lessons that we intended on completing last week. We are going over 7.2, 7.6, review for the test on chapter 6 and a few lessons in chapter 7, another PARCC practice test, and the test. The two lessons this week are on writing fractions as sums and renaming fractions and mixed numbers.

Science/ Social Studies:

We are learning about government, specifically the branches, the levels, the constitution, Bill of Rights, and a few other concepts.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is making generalizations  while we read leveled readers. The grammar skill is subject verb agreement and they will also be answering different writing prompts throughout the week.

Feb.8, 2018

Parents,

The students do not have math homework again tonight due to the PARCC practice testing that we were scheduled to take today during our math block. We will have another practice session one day next week and one more the following week. Sorry for the confusion that this has created due to the changes from what the G Force Gazette has said. Yesterday the two hour delay threw everything off and we forgot about the scheduled testing today.

Have a good night.

Feb.7, 2018

Parents,

Due to the two hour delay today, we did not have a chance to teach math so there is no math homework tonight.

Have a good night.

Feb.6, 2018

Parents,

The homework tonight is on pg.375 and 376 which covers comparing and ordering fractions. The link below goes to a video that should assist you with strategies to help your child, if needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7mcH5NwB-g

Thank you and have a good night.

Feb. 5, 2018

Parents,

I apologize for the silly mistake we made on the G Force Gazette this week where we wrote down the wrong homework pages for today. They should complete pg.369 and 370. Tonight's homework, 6.7, was on comparing fractions. The video below can assist you in tonight's homework, if needed. You will also find this week's G Force Gazette with the corrected pages for tonight. Thank you.

Neighborhood News

• If you haven’t done so already, please sign the cover your child’s report card was in and return to their teacher.
• We have attached student names on a separate sheet if your child would like to pass out Valentine’s cards. Remember, due to the CES Wellness Plan, candy is NOT allowed.
• Please check the 4th grade blog for updates and assistance in homework at www.gforceeagles.blogspot.com
• 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 nines. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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.363 and 364 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.375 and 376 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.389 and 390 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.395 and 396 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 9’s

Important Dates

Feb.6th

PEA Membership Meeting

Feb.7th

Normal Wednesday Early Out

Feb.9th

Reading Test on Adelina’s Whales

Feb.9th

Family 80’s Dance

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are finishing up unit 3, chapters 6 and a few lessons in chapter 7 on Comparing Fractions Using Benchmarks, Comparing and Ordering Fractions, Adding and Subtracting Parts of a Whole, Writing Fractions as Sums, and Renaming Fractions and Mixed Numbers.

Science/ Social Studies:

We are finishing up our PBL projects where students will be presenting them to their peers this Thursday and Friday.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is fact and opinion while we read Adelina’s Whales. The grammar skill is helping verbs and the final copy on the personal narrative writing on nature is due on Friday.