Special Announcements CROSS COUNTRY MEET MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 BUTLER PARK. If your children are coming please email Coach Ben-Sira at [email protected] We need to know how many children are riding the bus. Thank you! HEADMASTER'S SOCIAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 5:30-7:30. Meet Clark Dagget, our Interim Headmaster! We hope you all will come. ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES: All activities are going except Language Maker Movement, which has been canceled. If you registered your child in all others, he/she is in the club. ROSH HASHANAH EDP CAMP, OCTOBER 3 We are closed in observance of the Jewish Holiday, Rosh Hashanah. We will be running an EDP camp for those of you who need child care. YOM KIPPUR EDP CAMP, OCTOBER 12. We are closed in observance of the Jewish Holiday, Yom Kippur. We will be running an EDP camp for those of you who need child care. LA Students are reading about a region of Illinois and preparing their entry in a group Google Tour. They are plugging away and learning to read nonfiction, use the text features to prepare them for comprehension and summarize what they have read. We will be sharing the Google Tours next week! The first Roots test has been taken. We took the test altogether this week. Next week, I will let them use their books to take the test. Multiple choice test taking skills are taught along with the language skills. Math Both groups reviewed placed value, comparing numbers and rounding last week. They will be working on adding and subtraction and estimation in word problems this week. Knowing multiplication facts becomes increasingly important at this level of math. 4th grade begins with addition number sense and strategies and will end with division. However, it is the multiplication that really needs to be mastered. I encourage you to engage your student in fun ways to practice the facts. This should not be a nightly fight, but a fun way to spend time together. Here are some fun ways to practice together: 1. Play with dice. Really. Toss the dice and practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing using the numbers you roll on dice. 2. Flashlight Math. Use the flashcards and flip two cards at a time. Kids shine a flashlight on the one they know and answer that one. Simple. Don’t have a flashlight? Make a math wand. Use a stick or a light saber. Anything that works for your kid. 3. Use electronics. My Math Flash Cards App on the iPad and Math Practice Flashcards on my android phone. There are a gazillion flash card apps out there. I’m sure any would do the trick, and if you have five minutes and your kid says, ‘Can I play a game on your phoooooone?’ Say ‘Why yes you may! I’m so very glad you asked. . . ‘ 4. Write the answer. Or paint the answer. Water on cement or chalk on sidewalk or window crayon on window. One person flashes the cards and the other guy writes. 5. Math War. Played like the traditional, except whoever says the fact first wins and keeps the cards. Social Studies The Studies Weekly newspaper is an interesting addition to the social studies curriculum this year. We are practicing reading nonfiction and learning some super facts about Illinois. Ask them about the Piasa bird! The students have created accounts and work on puzzles and quizzes after reading the paper.
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