Welcome to 4th Grade!

Wow!  Can you believe that summer is over and the 2021-2022 school year has already begun?  I'm so excited to get to know this new group of 4th graders.  I can tell this is going to be a great year already.   My *goal* is to update this blog each week (or maybe 2!) with what we are working on in class.  I will post photos of our classwork, teaching posters, the occasional how-to video, YouTube links, extra practice problems and anything else we are working on in order to keep you informed about what's going on in our class.  I will also be posting class announcements here too.  I am hoping this is another easy way to help keep you informed on what's going on in room 208! 

Please know that I try my hardest, but I can sometimes be a typo queen. Ugh. I promise I try not to have them, but after I read and read and read the same thing over and over, it all starts to run together and sometimes I miss things.  Please forgive me in advance.  

Welp, we're wasting no time and have already started working on mastering the 4th grade standards.  The first couple of lessons can be confusing, but they are really the foundation of a lot of what we learn this year.   It's the dreaded concept of Place Value.  

We started off the year with NBT.1.1. which is being able to recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right. For example, recognize that 700 ÷ 70 = 10 by applying concepts of place value and division.  

Coming up next, we'll be working with showing numbers in different ways (standard form, expanded form, unit form, and word form.), comparing numbers using the =, <, > signs, and finding 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 more or less.  

Once we make the charts together as a class, I will be sure to post pictures so you can review them with your child at home.