EVERYDAY MATH INFORMATION
Students will continue to touch on topics throughout the year (and coming years). Not all topics will be mastered immediately...they will continue to emerge over the course of the year.
Kids learn by doing math. This means that our classroom will be busy with experimentation, exploration, individual, partner, and group work, and activity. We will be working out of math journals, which will stay at school. For this reason, your child will not be bringing home daily work. However, as children learn best with lots of practice, homework is a crucial component. Your child will bring homework home many (not all) evenings, although I do try to avoid weekends. At the beginning of every unit, a family letter will be sent home. Please keep this letter for the length of the unit! It contains vocabulary, instructions, and answers for the home links that will follow as homework.
Fourth grade students will have homework many evenings. Each student has a homework folder and will bring it home each evening along with their Student Reference book.
We will discuss the assignment in class each day so your child will have the necessary background information. Please assist your child with this homework and make sure it is returned to school the next day. The goal of these homework assignments is to help you be aware of what we are doing in math, as well as giving your child a chance to try the skills independently. It is very important for you to help your student return this homework each day. Assignments WILL NOT be graded for points. Points are earned if they are turned in on time with an effort made to complete them accurately.
Assignments will be checked in each morning. If a child does not turn in an assignment by 8:30, he/she will be required to either stay in during recess to complete it, or work on it at the picnic tables outside.
I am excited to take this big step into 4th grade math along with your child. Thank you for your support and patience.
Mrs. Yoder
