September 15, 2014
Welcome to grade 3/4 math! It is fun to end our days together in my math classroom. We are a lively, cheerful bunch and have been working together to figure out our best seating plan and reward system to help us stay on task.
I've been busy writing names on the board - it's a good thing! It means I caught you working away, and you have a chance to win a small treat at the end of class. We also started a check list for each class, simple things we need to work on each day, like traveling quietly in the hallway and using our indoor voices. When we receive check marks for these tasks, we get a sticker on our chart... If we can get two full weeks of stars, we get a math games day! Yahoo! Keep up the great work, grade 3/4's, we are half way there already!
We have set up our math journals, a place to write and think about open-ended math questions, such as "tell me everything you know about..." We have also been working on our Number Sense unit, which includes skip counting. Ask your student about "skipping counting around the world," a game we play to warm up each class. We are practicing counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, with the addition of counting by 3s and 4s. We have done some partner work, counting and organizing large groups of manipulatives, to skip count them more efficiently. Grade 3s are working with numbers to 1000, and the Grade 4s, numbers to 10 000.
Welcome to grade 3/4 math! It is fun to end our days together in my math classroom. We are a lively, cheerful bunch and have been working together to figure out our best seating plan and reward system to help us stay on task.
I've been busy writing names on the board - it's a good thing! It means I caught you working away, and you have a chance to win a small treat at the end of class. We also started a check list for each class, simple things we need to work on each day, like traveling quietly in the hallway and using our indoor voices. When we receive check marks for these tasks, we get a sticker on our chart... If we can get two full weeks of stars, we get a math games day! Yahoo! Keep up the great work, grade 3/4's, we are half way there already!
We have set up our math journals, a place to write and think about open-ended math questions, such as "tell me everything you know about..." We have also been working on our Number Sense unit, which includes skip counting. Ask your student about "skipping counting around the world," a game we play to warm up each class. We are practicing counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, with the addition of counting by 3s and 4s. We have done some partner work, counting and organizing large groups of manipulatives, to skip count them more efficiently. Grade 3s are working with numbers to 1000, and the Grade 4s, numbers to 10 000.