Dear Parents/Guardians,

 As we come to the close of the 1st nine week period of the 2009-2010 school year please help students in all areas of their studies.  Parental involvement is the key to success!!!!!!!!!!
Below are our upcoming areas of study.

Science/Social Studies
             Help prepare for the "end of the unit tests" by re-reading at home and by completing the guides at the end of each lesson/chapter.
         
         Science: lessons are exploring static and current electricity as well as magnetism. 
          We will compare the two concepts and their connections during the second grading period.
         Social Studies:  We will complete "Early Floridians" and move to "Arrivals From Other Continents" that shaped our state.
         Math - We are finishing up with reviewing timetables from the third grade and your child should have mastered all timetables (40 problems in 40 mins.) up to the 12's with 100% accuracy (during the first 9-week period) and should be starting on the "40 problems in 2 minutes" cycle of timed timetable tests.
          We are moving to a unit on Fractions and later to Data Collections.
          As you probably observed instant recall is a "must" in order to be successful with multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers. Ask your child if he/she has all stickers on the timetable chart and, if not re-practice those tables not yet mastered (with 100% accuracy) every night to lay a good foundation for fractions / division.
          Please keep practing timetables even when we have move to our next Math Unit.
           We will keep practing our "Story Problems" Strategies: (Underline the information given, draw a picture of how it can be solved, prove it with a number sentence, and explain your thinking in words).