Week 15

We are in the midst of LONG DIVISION! Woo hoo!! This can either be really fun or really painful. We are working on dividing three- and four-digit dividends by two-digit divisors with two- and three-digit quotients and making connections to a written method.

Students know the three steps we take in solving a division problem:

1. Estimate it 

2. Do the math

3. Check the answer by multiplying the quotient with the divisor and adding any remainder. 

For example, we are working out problems such as

     261/49         574/82                9,152/27          3,164/45

and “Mr. Riley baked 1,692 cookies. He sold them in boxes of 36 cookies each. How much money will he collect if he sold them for $8 per box?”

Thank you for working with your child on multiplication facts! Keep it up, please! Besides basic math facts, feel free to do “skip counting,” too. We recently counted by 21 (21, 42, 63, 84, etc) and a few other numbers. This is great practice for mental math.

With Christmas coming, could I gently suggest Santa stuffs your child’s stocking with a few handy school supplies?  Most students need to replenish their pencil boxes with pencils, erasers, and glue sticks.

In science, we have begun our unit on nutrition.  Next week we will be doing an investigation that involves finding out how much fat/oil foods contain. We need food samples. Please choose anything off the following list, and send along with your child in a Ziploc baggie or small plastic container by Monday, December 8^th.

Food Items needed for Science Experiment

Peanut Butter (1/8 cup)

Sun Butter (Mrs. Curry’s class)

Hot Dog (1-2)

Bread slice

Ketchup (1/8 cup)

Doughnut

Mayonnaise (1/8 cup)

Margarine

Cookie

Jelly

Mustard

Walnut

Potato Chip (a handful)

Cheese

Banana

Apple

As always, feel free to contact me with questions or concerns.

      

-Mrs. Steele