Introductions!

Hello class, welcome to our blog space for this year! We will use this space to share our ideas, writings, and thoughts throughout the year. You will be posting to this blog a few times a week and sharing things with your classmates. We will discuss as the year goes on what you are to put in this space.

For today, I want you all to write a brief introduction of yourselves, what you like to do, and include some original information about yourself (how many siblings, pets, hobbies) anything that makes you unique! To do this, you will need to click on "comment" below this message, be sure to sign into your google account so I know whose posting is whose!

Enjoy!

Ms. McVey

4th Grade Classwork and Homework in Miss Christie's Class

On today’s agenda our class worked first individually and moved to small groups and concluded with a classroom discussion. Each of these three stages revolved around the same set of multiplication problems. Individually, each student would open their workbook and solve each question thoughtfully showing their work and writing a sentence that sums up how they solved the problem. In small groups, each student explained their strategy and why they solved it that way. The group’s responsibility was to discuss, debate, question, and relate to each strategy and decide whether they should reevaluate or reinsure their strategy. Finally, as a class each group discussed their findings and I wrote them all on a big poster. We discussed and debated which were quality strategies, but we will not know for sure until we test them.

For our weekend homework, you are responsible for figuring out which strategies work, don’t work, relatable, or of high quality by testing each strategy on one single multiplication problem.
The list of strategies we created today can be found in your math folder. Next to each solution, make a note of how you felt about solving the problem this way. Finally, use your notes about each strategy to write a paragraph describing your feelings towards different methods and why or why not you like or dislike certain techniques. Be ready to discuss as a class on Monday.

Please feel free to comment on today’s lesson or post questions all weekend. You are also free to work on this with other students in person or through our class blog, but each student is to submit their own work.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Caron

Today in class 10.12

Today in our classroom we started working on Multiplication tables. The homework for tonight is a worksheet that students have in their homework folders. If you have any questions I will be checking the blog until about 9pm tonight.

Thanks,
Ms. McVey

contact info

Christie Caron: cecaron@indiana.edu, 630-531-1131
Lindsay Hianberg: lhianber@indiana.edu, 317-514-9968
Trisha Bingham: tbingha@indiana.edu, 502-671-9379
Kasey Devore: kdevore@indiana.edu, 317-752-5427
Sarah McVey: semcvey@indiana.edu, 317-691-1208