Our student teacher Miss. Martin will be with us for the next six weeks. She will practice teaching Procedural Writing/Reading as well as gym and our Matter unit in Science.
Math will primarily focus on decimals, fractions, division and using what we learn about these topics to word problems and measurement. Although we will also be studying geometry, elements of decimals, fractions and division will continue to be a focus for the rest of the year.
Please take time to review times tables with your child. Students need repetition....reciting them in the car, making them into a song, doing flashcards with a stuffed animal. We will being adding multiplication tables shortly to our homework. In April, there will be weekly Mad Minute quizzes that will focus weekly on specific times tables (such as the 4 and 5 times tables). This is to give students repetition and improve recall speed. Students with fast recognition of their times tables and fact families are much more successful with division and fractions.
