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.

February 1, 2018

Parents,

There is a change with the homework tonight. We ended up skipping the lesson that was originally assigned since we will be working on comparing fractions with later lessons. Thus the homework tonight is pg.355 and 356. If you need assistance teaching the homework to your child, please watch the video below.

Have a good night.

Jan.31, 2018

Parents,

The students learned about simplifying fractions today and their homework is pg.343 and pg.344. There is a video below for assistance, if needed. Have a good night.

Jan.30, 2018

Parents,

I apologize if you were looking for a post last Wednesday or Thursday. I was ill and not able to update it. Tonight's homework is pg.337 - 338 on generating equivalent fractions. The following video below can assist you in helping your child with today's lesson, if needed. You can also find this week's G Force Gazette below.

Neighborhood News

• The end of the 2nd quarter was last Friday so students will be receiving their report card this Friday.
• 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 sixes. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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:

• No School - Teacher Workday

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.337 and 338 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.343 and 344 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.349 and 350 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Important Dates

Jan. 29th

No School - Teacher Workday

Jan.31st

Normal Wednesday Early Out

Feb.2nd

Reading Test on The Stranger

Report Cards Go Home

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are working on chapter 6 (6.2 - 6.5) on generating equivalent fractions, turning fractions into simplest form, making common denominators, and finding equivalent fractions using problem solving.

Science/ Social Studies:

We are going back to social studies to work on our Alien PBL project where students will be taking the research and turning it into a product to present to their peers.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is finishing up cause and effect within reading passages and the leveled readers. The grammar skill is action and linking verbs and the rough draft on the personal narrative writing on nature is due on Friday.

Jan. 23, 2018

Parents,

The students learned perimeter and area today with lessons 13.1 and 13.2. The homework tonight is on pgs.721 and 727. There is a video below to assist you, if needed. Yesterday's post has this week's  G Force Gazette if you need to view it.

Have a good night.

Jan.22, 2018

Parents,

Since we combined two lessons today, students have to complete two math worksheets on units of time and elapsed time. The page numbers are pg.689 and 695. There is a video below to assist in helping your child understand how to demonstrate units of time and convert elapsed time. There is also the G Force Gazette information below that went home with a hard copy today.

Neighborhood News

• The end of the 2nd quarter is this Friday so students should be completing any work that was unfinished this quarter.
• 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 sixes. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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.689 and 695 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 7’s

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.721 and 727 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.733 and 741 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Thursday:

• Unit 3 Math Test (chapters 12 and 13)
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 8’s

Important Dates

Jan. 24th

Wednesday Early Dismissal

Jan.25th

Unit 3 Math Test (ch.12, 13)

Jan.26th

End of 2nd Quarter

Jan.29th

No School - Teacher Workday

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are finishing chapter 12 and 13 on relative sizes of measurement units, perimeter, and area. This week we will be working on units of time, elapsed time, perimeter, area, problem solving of area and perimeter, and beginning unit 4, chapter 6 on equivalent fractions.

Science/ Social Studies:

We will continue work on science this week. They will be finishing up series and parallel circuits.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is cause and effect within reading passages. The grammar skill is action linking verbs and they will be writing a personal narrative about nature.

Jan.18, 2018

Parents,

The students learned about the metric system, specifically millimeters, centimeters, meters, and decimeters for lesson 12.6. The homework is on pg.677. The video below will assist you in today's lesson, if needed.

Have a good night.

Jan.17, 2018

Parents,

The homework tonight is lesson 12.4 on customary units of liquid volume on pg.663. The following is a video on it, if needed. You can use this strategy to answer the questions.

Have a good night.

Jan. 16, 2018

Parents,

Tonight's homework is on pg.657 on customary units of weight. There is a video below, if needed. The G Force Gazette is also presented on this post. 

Neighborhood News

• 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 sixes. We will be monitoring their daily progress.
• 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:

• No School

Tuesday:

• Math homework pg.657 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 6’s
• 
  

Wednesday:

• Math homework pg.663 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 6’s
• 
  

Thursday:

• Math homework pg.677 to practice concepts learned in class
• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 6’s
• 
  

Friday:

• Read for at least 20 minutes
• Practice your multiplication facts on 6’s

Important Dates

Jan.15th

No School - Martin Luther King Day

Jan. 17th

Wednesday Early Dismissal

Educational Targets:

Math:

Students are continuing chapter 12 on relative sizes of measurement units. This week we will be looking at customary units of weight, liquid volume, metric units of length, and metric units of mass and liquid volume.

Science/ Social Studies:

We will be bouncing back to science this week. They will be learning about series and parallel circuits.

Language Arts:

Their reading comprehension skill this week is applying fact and opinion within reading passages.. The grammar skill is plural possessive nouns and they are publishing explanatory writing by describing how to make a perfect snowman.

Jan. 11, 2018

Parents,

The homework tonight is on pg.645. I originally said on the G Force Gazette to complete pg. 645 and 646 but the review sheet on 646 would be difficult for students to complete since we didn't cover the concepts yet so they are not responsible for doing it tonight. We skipped to chapter 12 since our unit consists of division, measurements that include conversions using multiplication/division and perimeter and area. The following is a video on today's lesson, if needed.

Have a good night.

Jan.9, 2018

Parents,

Tonight's math homework is having students complete the problems on pg.271 - 276 that they didn't finish or got wrong during math class. This is in preparation for the chapter four test tomorrow. The following are videos on a few division strategies that we covered. Your child should know one of them well.