Friday, September 28, 2018

A Few Things...

Conferences

Your child should have a note letting you know what time your conference is scheduled for next week. If that note is missing, just email me (willisl@mepoedu.org) and I'll let you know the scheduled time. 

Rounding and Estimating

We've been busy practicing our Rounding and Estimating skills the past few weeks. This is a real-world math skill that is very important for them to be able to do. Next week we will practice rounding money, another important real-world skill.

Perimeter

We have also been working on figuring out the perimeter of an object. We will continue to practice that skill throughout the school year and we will work on figuring out area as well. 

24 cards

Can you use all of these numbers to make 24? This is a fun challenge that my fourth grade students do when their other work is complete. 





What's Happening

We did a new kind of "warm-up" for Math today. This came from the book Codebreakers . We started off with some easy puzzles and w...