grade: 3 Math and Science week of 06-10-13

I. click to view: Math Lessons
a) test/quiz:
b) homework:
1. Monday: green workbook p. 44
2. Wednesday:  green workbook p. 49 # 4-9 and review and remember at bottom of page.

Math Games and Practice:
1.  Perimeter and Area


II. click to view:  Science Lessons
a) test/quiz:
b) homework:

grade: 2 Math and Science week of 06-10-13

I. click to view:  Math Lessons
a) test/quiz:
b) homework:
1. Monday:   skills link workbook p. 70 and 72 on lose-leaf.
2. Wednesday: skills link workbook p. 33 and p. 34 #1-2 on loose-leaf.


II. click to view: Science Lessons
a) test/quiz:
b) homework:
1.

Grade: 3 Math and Science End of the year exam Review Guide

Mathematics:

Unit-I:  Addition and Subtraction

• writing and representing addition and subtraction number sentences
• addition and subtraction strategies
• modeling/number line/ counting up/ breaking apart numbers-decomposing
• Adding and subtracting up to three and four digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Identifying polygons

Unit -1 Essential Questions: 

1. How can algorithms be used to add numbers within 1,000?
2. How can addition be used to solve subtraction?
3. How can subtraction be used to answer an addition problem?
4. How can shapes with the same perimeter cover different areas?
5. How is time used in everyday life? 

UNIT-II:  Multiplication and Division Concepts

• multiplication as combining equal groups.
• relationship among skip counting, repeated addition and multiplication
• properties of multiplication
• using arrays to model multiplication and division
• multiplication facts from 0 to 10 up to 12 as a factor
• division as the sharing or separating numbers into equal groups
• single digit division facts
• two digit divided by one digit facts
• Using inverse operations to solve division/multiplication

Unit-II Essential Questions:

1. What is multiplication and division, and  how are they related?
2. How are skip counting, repeated addition and multiplication related?
3. How can arrays be used to model and solve multiplication and division?
4. How can multiplication be used to solve division?
5. How can I write and solve division problems?

Unit-III. multiplying and dividing fluently

• Multiply and divide within 100. Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division
• Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic. Solve two-step word problems using the four operations and equations with variables

Essential Questions:
How can I identify multiplication combinations that I do not yet know fluently?
How can I use known multiplication combinations to determine the products of more difficult combinations?
Can I fluently multiply and divide within 100?

Unit-IV:  Fractions

• Find equal parts of a whole and name them with fractions.
• Divide an area into equal parts.
• Order unit fractions.
• Demonstrate that different-shaped pieces that are the same fraction of the same area have equal parts.
• Name fractional parts with fractions that have numerators greater than 1.
• Use representations to combine fractions that sum to 1.
• Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers.
• Read and write decimals from tenths to hundredths

Essential Questions:

• How can I find equal parts of a whole and name them with fractions?
• How can I divide an area into equal parts?
• How can I name fractional parts with unit fractions?
• How can I order unit fractions?
• How can I demonstrate that different-shaped pieces that are the same fractions of the same
• area have equal area?
• How can I name fractional parts with fractions that have numerators greater than 1?

Unit-V:  Area and perimeter of polygons

• Find the area of partially covered rectangles.
• Find the area of an irregular shape 
• Find the perimeter of an irregular shape.
• Design a shape for a given area.
• Find the area by counting or calculating whole and partial square units.

Science:

UNIT-1:  The Nature of Science:

• What is the scientific method?
• Why is it important for scientist to follow the scientific method?
• How is a hypothesis unlike a guess?
• Why do scientists need to communicate?
• How do scientist make observations?

Essential question: 

1. Why and how is communication important in science?

UNIT-2: Animal and Plant Adaptations (chapter 2 and 4 in textbook)

• How do animals live in groups?
• What behaviors do animals have?
• How do plants and animals adapt to survive?
• How are animals adapted to their environment?
• How do seeds and fruits develop?
• How are predators and prey related?
• How do changes in the environment affect living things?

Essential questions:

1. How do animals and plants continue to survive?
2. How do animals and plants adapt to their environment?

UNIT-3: Energy (textbook chapters 5,6,,8)

• What is matter?
• What makes up matter?
• how does heat energy affect matter?
• What makes things move?
• How are work and energy related?
• how do machines use energy?
• How does light and sound travel?
• How are light and sound similar and different?
• How is sound created?
• Why is sound energy?

Essential question:

1. What are the forms of energy?
2. What changes occur when objects interact with different forms of energy?
3. How can one form of energy be transformed into another form of energy?

Grade: 4 Math and Science End of the year Exam Review

Dear parents and students,
 Below are the topics fourth graders have been working on this year.  A reminder that not every topic is found in the textbook. Therefore students should refer to their notebooks and weekly quizzes as their primary study guide.

I. Mathematics: 
 Place Value:  (chapter 1 and in notebook)

• expanded from, word form, standard form up to one-million
• place value
• comparing and ordering multi-digit numbers
• rounding
• chapter review and practice: p. 64

Addition and Subtraction: ( chapter 2 and 3 and notebook)

• adding and subtracting up to six digit numbers
• relating addition and subtraction 
• adding/subtracting with regrouping
• chapter 2 review and practice p. 92
• chapter 3 review and practice p. 120

Area and Perimeter: (chapter 11 and notebook)

• Using perimeter area and formulas, text p. 358-363
• comparing areas of different shapes
• comparing perimeter of different shapes
• comparing area and perimeter 

Multiplication and Division:  (chapter 4 and 5)

• using arrays to model multiplication and division
• missing factors:  4 x ? =  12
• multiplying up to four digits by one digit factors
• mutliplying two digit by two digit factors
• patterns in multiplication
• comparing multiplication equations and expressions
• relating multiplication and division
• two digit divided by single digit number
• identifying prime and composite numbers

II. Science

 Unit I:  The Nature of Science

• The scientific method
• Why do scientist follow the scientific method?
• Why is it important to collect information or data?
• How is a hypothesis different than a guess?

Unit II: Interactions of Air, Water, and Land (textbook unit-D, chapter 9 Earths Weather))

• what are natural events?
• how do natural events affect our world?
• How is weather and climate alike and different?
• What job do meteorologist do?
• What are the four properties of weather meteorologists measure?
• What Makes up the atmosphere?
• How does the sun and water affect the atmosphere?
• Compare four layers of the atmosphere?
• How does water and gravity shape earths surface? (p. c32-c39)
• What is weathering?
• what are extreme natural events?

Unit III: Properties of Water: (textbook unit-D, chapter 8  Earth's water)

• Where can water be found?
• How can water exist in different states?
• How does a change in temperature affect the state of water?
• How does earth recycle water?
• How does evaporation and condensation affect the water cycle?
• Why do clouds form?
• where does water come from?
• How does temperature affect precipitation?

grade: 2 End of the-year Review Guide

MATHEMATICS

Unit-I: Place Value up to 1000 (chapters 2 and 8) & Addition Subtraction facts (chapter 1)

• Skip counting patterns of  2, 3, 4,5, 10, 20, 25, 50 , 100
• modelling and representing values of  two and three digit numbers
• writing numbers in word/expanded/standard form
• comparing and ordering numbers
• rounding to the nearest tens
• using number line
• What is a multi-digit number?
• addition and subtraction facts up to twenty
• relating addition and subtraction
• making ten
• adding three and four numbers
• missing addends
• addition and subtraction patterns
• fact families

Essential Questions:  

1. How does the first number of a multiple of 100 relate to the number of flats within that?
2. What strategies can be used to continue numerical sequencing? 
3. How can the same number be represented in multiple ways? 
4. How can we use multiple representations of numbers to compare numbers?
5. How are addition and subtraction related?
6.  How are addition and subtraction related?

Unit-II:  Addition and Subtraction (chapters 4 and 5)

• Properties of odd and even numbers (p. 93)
• Identifying and classifying odd and even numbers
• writing addition and subtraction number sentences
• using arrays to model repeated addition
• adding and subtracting with and without regrouping
• using expanded form to break apart numbers
• using addition to solve and check subtraction problems

Essential Questions:

1.  How are even numbers and odd numbers different?
2. How can you write an addition sentence for problems with equal groups?
3. How does breaking apart a number make it easier to add?
4. How can you use addition to solve subtraction problems?
5. What are two different ways to write a subtraction problem? 
6. How do you break apart addends to add tens and then add ones?

SCIENCE:

Unit-I: The Nature of Science

• What are the five senses?
• How do the five senses help scientists in their work?
• How do scientists learn about the world?
• What is science?
• How can I be a scientists?
• What tools do scientists use?
• Scientists , observe, ask questions and investigate

Essential Questions:

1. What is a scientist?
2. What is the adventure of science all about?
3. Why is science an important subject?

Unit-II: Nutrition

• Plants, animals, and humans need certain nutrients to survive.
• What is good health?
• How can peaople be healthy?
• How does exercise make us healthy?
• What is the food pyramid?
• How is a balanced diet different than diet?
• How can a healthy diet affect a persons life span?
• How can diseases affect our health?

Essential Questions:

1. What basic needs do humans have?
2. What choices can humans make to help their bodies stay strong and live a long life?

Unit-III: Natural Cycles and Patterns:

• How does day change to night?
• How does earth rotate?
• Why do the seasons change?
• How long does the earth take to orbit the sun?
• What is an orbit?
• Why is the earth and moon both a satellite?
• Why does the moon shine?
• Why does the moon appera to change shapes?
• How does the moon affect the oceans on earth?
• Why doesn't the moon float away into space?
• Why can't we see the new moon?
• What are the four basic moon phases?
• What is the solar system?
• How are inner planets different than outer planets?
• How are orbits of planets alike and different?
• How do we learn about the planets?

Essential Questions:

1. What earthly patterns are revealed to us through by observing the movements between the Earth, Sun and Moon?
2. How does the movement of the earth and the Moon affect the weather and climate in our environment?

              

grade: 4 P. B. L. Feast Days of Mary

Dear Families,

   Students have been working on hard on their last pbl religion project.  As we approach the final steps in concluding our project, students will need to bring in materials and follow the directions listed below.  Each student will need an oak tag board for presentation.  The rest can be completed in class and ofcourse continued at home.  We are aiming to finalize our project by the end of next week.

1. Oak Tag board (any color)
2. Images of Mary in relation to your selected feast day
3. Bring in your self-made Rosary Beads
4. Research facts of selected Feast Day


Thank You!