Week of April 7th

Blog Entry –April 7^th Update

LANGUAGE            

WRITING

This week students will take their learning from their mini lessons in previous weeks and work on writing descriptive sentences and paragraphs by continuously adding more detail to their writing using some of these techniques.

MATH

Fraction Expectations

Grade 4

 -determine and explain, through investigation, the relationship between fractions (i.e., halves, fifths, tenths) and decimals to tenths, using a variety of tools (e.g., concrete materials, drawings, calculators) and strategies

– demonstrate and explain the relationship between equivalent fractions, using concrete materials (e.g., fraction circles, fraction strips, pattern blocks) and drawings (e.g.,“I can say that 36 of my cubes are white, or half of the cubes are white. This means that 36 and 12 are equal.”);

– compare and order fractions (i.e., halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, tenths) by considering the size and the number of fractional parts (e.g., 4/5 is greater than 3/5 because there are more parts in 4/5 ; 1/4 is greater than 1/5 because the size of the part is larger in 1/4 );

– compare fractions to the benchmarks of 0, 1/2 ,and 1 (e.g., 1/8 is closer to 0 than to 1/2 ; 3/5 is more than 1/2)

– represent fractions using concrete materials, words, and standard fractional notation, and explain the meaning of the denominator as the number of the fractional parts of a whole or a set, and the numerator as the number of fractional parts being considered;

Grade 5

– determine and explain, through investigation using concrete materials, drawings, and calculators, the relationship between fractions (i.e., with denominators of 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, and 100) and their equivalent decimal forms (e.g., use a 10 x 10 grid to show that 2/5 = 40/100 , which can also be represented as 0.4);

– represent, compare, and order fractional amounts with like denominators, including proper and improper fractions and mixed numbers, using a variety of tools (e.g., fraction circles, Cuisenaire rods, number lines) and using standard fractional notation;

– demonstrate and explain the concept of equivalent fractions, using concrete materials (e.g., use fraction strips to show that 3/4 is equal to 9/12 );

– demonstrate and explain the concept of equivalent fractions, using concrete materials (e.g., use fraction strips to show that 3/4 is equal to 9/12 );

– describe multiplicative relationships between quantities by using simple fractions and decimals (e.g., “If you have 4 plums and I have 6 plums, I can say that I have 1 1/2 or 1.5 times as many plums as you have.”);

E-Text pages

Grade 5 pages 256 – 305

Grade 4 pages 270 - 317

A reminder, Math Help is every Wednesday and Friday and is open to all students in my Grade 4 and Grade 5 class. As well after any quiz if a student would like a re-quiz they should be coming to math help and asking for help in order to do the re-quiz.