Class 6A Communication With Home

Unit 2 – Lessons 1, 2, & 3- Quiz on Thursday, October 22, 2009.

Review notes and look over work.

Extra Help will be at Lunch Time Wednesday for those who need it.

This week we are reviewing Lessons 1, 2 & 3.

Students were assigned review booklet in class this week. To be completed by Monday, October 19.

Test on Lessons 1 2, & 3 will be on Wednesday, October 21.

Extra help will be on Tuesday, after school for those who require it.

Students have been provided with Math games. 13 students are asked to play Roll, Multiply and Remove with their parents tonight. Remainder of class will get games on Tuesday for rehearsal.

Math assignment on Writing Numbers in Expanded form, word/number form/exponential form/standard for along with comparing and ordering numbers. Due this Friday.

Students are requested to continue reviewing their basic multiplication math facts. There will be a quiz on Friday up to 12 x 12.

Students are asked to explain to parents what 10 to the power of 4 means. They were also provided with a number in standard form and asked to write it in expanded form, exponential form and word-number  form as discussed in class today.

Students are asked to have their parents add 47 + 26 mentally, without any paper or pencil. Parents are to explain to student how the steps they used. Students are asked to do the same. This should be placed in Rehearsal scribbler with parent initials.

Your child’s class is beginning a mathematics unit on whole numbers. The students will explore very large numbers, and develop and refine strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing multidigit numbers. They will learn which method of computation (estimation, mental math, paper and pencil, or technology)
is appropriate in a given situation. They will explore strategies, such as using the inverse operation, to check answers to computational questions.

In this unit, your child will:
·        Read and write whole numbers in standard, expanded, exponential, and written forms.
·        Use place value to represent and read whole numbers.
·        Compare and order whole numbers.
·        Identify and describe multiples and factors to 100.
·        Identify and describe composite and prime numbers to 100.
·        Estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients.
·        Use mental math to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
·        Add four 3-digit numbers and subtract from a 5-digit number.
·        Multiply and divide by a 2-digit number.
·        Pose and solve multistep problems.

Here are some activities you can do to enhance your child’s learning:
·        Together, plan the cost of a family outing or trip.
·        Help your child find and read large numbers in newspapers and magazines.
·        Encourage your child to estimate the total cost of several items as you shop.

At this time I would like to wish everyone a big Welcome Back to ERES for the 2009-2010 school year. I look forward to making friends and working with your son/daughter this year. Feel free to contact me at any time for any concerns you may have regarding your son/daughter.