Essential Questions
- How can rounding and estimation help with problem solving?
- Why do we order numbers?
- Where could you find parallel lines in real life? What about lines of symmetry?
- What is a fraction?
Big Ideas
- Students will understand when it is appropriate to round numbers in their lives, and how to use estimation effectively and efficiently.
- Students will understand the relationship between multiplication and division, and be able to apply appropriate methods for finding products and quotients of multi-digit whole numbers.
- Students will understand the properties of two-dimensional shapes.
- Students will understand the relationships between fractions, including equivalence and inequalities.
Communication
Please check your child’s take home folder each night. This is the schools main source of communication to the home. Notes from the school will be sent home daily. You can also feel free to contact me via email or phone, specified on the Contact me tab at the top of this page.
Homework
There will be homework daily in Math, Reading, and Spelling. Occasionally there will be Science or Social Studies homework, but that will be dependent on what we are able to get through in the classroom and will be specified in your child’s planner. Please develop a study plan with your child including time and space to complete homework and studying. I also ask that you sign your child’s planner each night in an effort to make sure that your child is completing all of the assigned homework each night.
Snack
Students will have a snack time daily, in the afternoon. Please send in a healthy snack. Candy and drinks filled with soda are not allowed. There is to be no gum chewing in the classroom.
Birthdays
Your child is more than welcome to celebrate their birthday with the class. Please let me know a day in advanced if your child will be bringing in a snack to share. Invitations to birthday parties are not to be handed out in the classroom, unless the entire class is invited to avoid student conflict. There are (x) kids in the class.
Expectations
Children are expected to be respectful to all members of our school community. I hope to teach your children to be open to new ideas, and that they will have the willingness to learn. As I stated previously I will do my best to relate everything in the classroom to your children’s everyday life in an effort to make them feel a purpose in their learning.
"Do the right thing, even if no one is looking" -C.S. Lewis