Week of February 20, 2012

Hello Math Families!

We continue to work diligently in math, learning new concepts. When I tell the students that we are going to be learning how to add and subtract, they give me a funny look as if to say, “Excuse me?” We learned strategies for mental addition and subtraction last week. This week, we will be learning sum, difference, greater than, and smaller than. These will be introduced in relation to model drawing. The students will be drawing their models to gain further understanding of addition and subtraction.

Our schedule this week:

Monday 2/20/12 Holiday, no school.

Tuesday 2/21/12 WB Exercise 4, p. 32-33

Wednesday 2/22/12 WB Exercise 5, p. 34-35

Thursday 2/23/12 WB Exercise 6, p. 36-37

Friday 2/24/12 WB Exercise 7, p. 38-39

*As always, there may be additional worksheets as needed. Our test over this chapter is planned for Monday, 2/27/12. In anticipation of the test, I might be sending additional homework over the weekend if we don’t complete it in class this week.

Thank you for your continued support. Have a great week!

Mrs. Winkler

Week of February 6, 2012

Hello 3A Math Families,

Wow!  We are already at the end of our first unit in Singapore 3A.  The students have been having a great time with place value up to the 10,000s.  They’ve really done a great job too!  We have started rounding numbers to the nearest tens place and will learn rounding to the nearest hundreds and thousands place before the week is out. 

We will be having a test on Thursday, February 9^th covering Chapter 3.  Then we’ll turn around and have our unit test on Friday.  It is going to be a fast-paced week. 

 Look for your student’s math book mark for their homework schedule. 

 Have a great week!

Mrs. Winkler