Help for Those Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Types of Sentences

Hello Parents! We have been working with different types of sentences in English. Your children have these definitions in their spiral notebooks, but in case you want a reference at home, here is a chart with the same information. Hope this helps!

Pizza Day Tomorrow!

Don't forget that Pizza Day is tomorrow! The students should still be in mass uniforms or can participate in the $5 Jean Day and we will eat at our normal time, but we will have PIZZA for lunch!

Fun Ways to Count Money

Looking for some fun ways to count money? These are so enjoyable you won't even realize you're doing math!

1.     Money Memory- Make a money concentration game with 20 index cards, magazine pictures and coin stickers or stamps.  Have your child look through magazines and cut out pictures of ten items that he would like to purchase.  Have him glue each picture on an index card.  Draw a price tag on each picture.  On the other ten cards, put coin stickers or stamps that equal the prices of the objects shown on the other cards.  To play, shuffle and spread the cards face down on a playing surface. One player chooses two cards.  If she gets a match, she gets to go again.  If they do not get a match, the cards are returned and the next player picks two cards.

2.     Penny-a-Day- Purchase four disposable plastic cups.  Label each cup with a different coin name (penny, nickel, dime, quarter).  Each day give your child a penny to place in the penny cup.  When he reaches 5¢ in the penny cup, allow him to trade for a nickel and put in the correct cup.  Encourage them to keep trading for larger and larger coins as they save money.

3.     Coin Toss- Place a plastic bowl on the floor several feet away from your child.  Give her 10 play coins.  Instruct her to toss the coins into the bowl.  She then counts the coins that land in the bowl.

3.     How Many Ways? - Each day review counting money by asking your child to show you different combinations of coins that equal the date.  For instance: Today is the 21^st.  Show me how many different ways you can make 21¢ using coins.

4.     Grocery Store- Buy a package of garage sale stickers or use a roll of masking tape to make price tags.  Place them on several grocery items and write a price on each.  Place the priced items on the table and invite your child to go ‘shopping’.  He can use real or play coins to purchase the items. Older children can practice making change.

5.     Egg-celent Shake-up- Recycle your old cardboard egg cartons.  Place a handful of coins in a cardboard egg carton.  Close the lid and have your child shake it up.  When she opens the lid, ask her to count the coins in each section of the carton.

6.     Race to a Dollar- Grab a pair of dice, a bag of coins, a partner and you’re ready to go!  To play, one person rolls the dice.  She takes the same number of coins as the number that they roll.  Play continues until one player reaches a dollar. 

7.   Create a Catalog- Get several pieces of construction paper and have your child create their own catalog by drawing pictures of things that they like.  You can even write descriptions beside the drawings.   Help him accurately price each item.  Using play coins and bills, allow him to ‘purchase’ the item and count out the money needed.

Jean Day on Friday!

How the Earth Moves: Rotating

We learned in Science today about the Earth's movement and how it gives us day and night. Here is a link to a site that shows the official time of day where we are and where the Sun's light is showing on the Earth.
https://www.time.gov/

Looking to Practice Rounding?

We worked on rounding today in class! I am posting lesson sequence and a rhyme that might help your child at home in case they are still working on finishing their assignment or if you would like to continue to practice with them. Here is how it was taught in class:

Step 1: Find your place value and underline the digit. (If it asks to round to the nearest ten, find the "tens" place, if it asks to round to the nearest hundred, find the "hundreds" place, if it asks to round to the nearest thousand, find the "thousands" place.
Step 2: Look at the neighbor directly to the right and determine if it is 4 or less or 5 or more. If the number is less than 4, the underlined digit remains the same. If it is 5 or more, the underlined digit changes by adding 1. Remember our rhyme! 4 or less, digit to the left stays the same, 5 or more, digit the left makes a change.
Step 3: Once you figure out your underlined place value, ALL digits to the right change to "0."

Hope this helps! You can also go to this SITE and play some games that will help rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. 

Here is a copy of the Lesson if it helps!