Hello Everyone,
I hope you enjoyed your long weekend. Here is the weekly blog post to help keep you informed and connected to the 4th grade classroom.
I would like to welcome 2 SJSU student teachers to our zooms. Welcome Giselle and Sofia. We appreciate you volunteering your time! The SJSU teacher program is a vetted approved program to allow student teachers an opportunity to be in virtual classrooms to provide help, instruction and support to students and teachers in distance learning platforms.
**4th Grade Back to School Night: Thursday September 10th at 5:00
https://zoom.us/j/95408464439?pwd=YVQ3RDNQandzU2kySVdiTldCUmI3UT09
Meeting ID: 954 0846 4439Passcode: Mountain4
ZOOM NORMS for your reference.
**Parents please use the 4th grade website:
-schedules with checklists
-reading, writing and math resources
-reading logs
-links to sites
**Students use google classroom
-Please follow the daily schedule with checklist. It will build a routine and help your child and you navigate assignments and know when things are assigned and due.
**Note: students cannot print from a chrome book: if you need to print something for your child, go to the 4th grade website on a home computer and pull up the schedule on the website and click on the item you wish to print. If you are really stumped, please email me, and I will help you in a timely fashion.
-Here are the links to the sites we are currently using:
-Zoom Meeting ID: 948 5071 9668 Passcode: mountain4
Zoom length: 1.5 hrs.
**These are on your child's daily schedule at the time they occur
-Khan Academy for math: https://www.khanacademy.org/join/EGPADR92
Click: join 4th grade classroom
Practice Approximation this week on Khan
-Foss Science login:https://www.fossweb.com/
User Name: Mountainscience
Password: mountain
Go to Singapore Digital
Example username: johnb
School ID: 2ca0079
Password: Mountain3
**If you are new to Mountain School your Password is: Mountain4
-Accelerated Reader: All quizzes should be completed within 24 hours of finishing an AR book.
login convention for all students:
Example User Name: janieb
Password: mountain
-Accelerated Reader Book Finder: Your child should be reading "good fit" books--on their reading level and interest level. You can check to see that the books your child is choosing to read are in AR. If you put the title in and see the book pop up with information on reading level, points, and quiz #, you know that this is a good pick. If you cannot find the book in the AR book finder, this is a book that has no quiz associated with it and no points. This is not a good pick.
There is no login. This is a search engine to find good-fit books for your child. Try using the more sophisticated search options: "Advanced Search" and "Collections" to find many more books in your child's area of interest, reading level and wheel house. You can refine the searches and find better choices. Then, consider checking them out at the Mountain School Library or Public Library.
The Blue Binder: This is a system to help your child manage and organize math lessons, math practice and math tools--pages or printouts to help with math lessons. Please help your child keep their lessons and papers organized. They may need a 3 hole punch to get those sheets into a binder.
Example User Name: janieb
Password: mountain
-Accelerated Reader Book Finder: Your child should be reading "good fit" books--on their reading level and interest level. You can check to see that the books your child is choosing to read are in AR. If you put the title in and see the book pop up with information on reading level, points, and quiz #, you know that this is a good pick. If you cannot find the book in the AR book finder, this is a book that has no quiz associated with it and no points. This is not a good pick.
There is no login. This is a search engine to find good-fit books for your child. Try using the more sophisticated search options: "Advanced Search" and "Collections" to find many more books in your child's area of interest, reading level and wheel house. You can refine the searches and find better choices. Then, consider checking them out at the Mountain School Library or Public Library.
The Blue Binder: This is a system to help your child manage and organize math lessons, math practice and math tools--pages or printouts to help with math lessons. Please help your child keep their lessons and papers organized. They may need a 3 hole punch to get those sheets into a binder.
The Red Binder: your child should have a red binder or another colored binder for Social Sciences, reading and writing. Please have your child keep these ELA (English Language Arts and Social Sciences) in this binder for easy reference.
Please pick up the weekly packet(s) in math, etc. on Fridays by 3:00 or after. If you would like to print them out yourself, you will find weekly lessons in the PDF Lesson Folder on the 4th grade website on the home page drop down menu.
Math: whole numbers and place value up to the millions. Please continue to review math facts. This weeks teaching point is approximation and rounding; multiples and factors will follow in the next 2 week. There is a quiz or test every Friday on Singapore digital. Math lessons are taught asynchronously--a video taped lesson. Your child should watch the lesson and complete it with the teacher. Workbook pages are assigned with each lesson.
Please pick up the weekly packet(s) in math, etc. on Fridays by 3:00 or after. If you would like to print them out yourself, you will find weekly lessons in the PDF Lesson Folder on the 4th grade website on the home page drop down menu.
Math: whole numbers and place value up to the millions. Please continue to review math facts. This weeks teaching point is approximation and rounding; multiples and factors will follow in the next 2 week. There is a quiz or test every Friday on Singapore digital. Math lessons are taught asynchronously--a video taped lesson. Your child should watch the lesson and complete it with the teacher. Workbook pages are assigned with each lesson.
Your child should be practicing and memorizing their math facts. Although rather annoying, a rhyme or a musical chant is effective. If you prefer the paper version and doing it yourself. Please refer to the packet that went home in the first week of school.
History Social Sciences: California Geography Chapter 1: lesson 1, 2 and 3. This is a 3 week + unit. There is a project for each unit called a "quest." The quest for this first unit is making a business proposal. PLEASE DO NOT do this in advance. Your child needs to build their knowledge in the next 3 weeks, and then I will assign the project with directions. Look for paper packets on each lesson in the coming weeks for pick up. You may print them at home, if you desire, go to the PDF Lesson Folder on Fridays by 3:00. History assignments are on the Tuesday and Friday schedule. They are previewed on zoom and your child can finish up the day's assignment in the afternoon.
Science: Foss: Soil, Landforms and Rocks. Science assignments are on the Monday and Wednesday schedule. They are previewed by the teacher on zoom and your child can finish them up in the afternoon.
Read Aloud Lucy Calkin's Novel: The Tiger Rising
History Social Sciences: California Geography Chapter 1: lesson 1, 2 and 3. This is a 3 week + unit. There is a project for each unit called a "quest." The quest for this first unit is making a business proposal. PLEASE DO NOT do this in advance. Your child needs to build their knowledge in the next 3 weeks, and then I will assign the project with directions. Look for paper packets on each lesson in the coming weeks for pick up. You may print them at home, if you desire, go to the PDF Lesson Folder on Fridays by 3:00. History assignments are on the Tuesday and Friday schedule. They are previewed on zoom and your child can finish up the day's assignment in the afternoon.
Science: Foss: Soil, Landforms and Rocks. Science assignments are on the Monday and Wednesday schedule. They are previewed by the teacher on zoom and your child can finish them up in the afternoon.
Read Aloud Lucy Calkin's Novel: The Tiger Rising
Readers Workshop: Synchronous lessons on zoom. There is a book review writing assignment upon completing of the book and lessons. Please look for that in the next 2 weeks. It will be teacher lead on zoom and assigned on google classroom.
Warmly,
Heather
Warmly,
Heather
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