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Click the links below each grade level to view videos from February

Grade level lessons and past homework helpers!

In order for it to be easy to locate your weekly information and helper videos each week I will be moving old helper videos and lessons to this page at the end of each month. If you still need help on an old skill, you can find a video here!

Third Grade

Line Plots

 

 

 

Your child needs to know how to create, read, and understand line plots.

 

A line plot is another way to collect and display data. In a line plot, the information is shown as an 'X'.

Fractions

SOL 3.3

 

Your child needs to know how to name and write the following fractions: halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, tenths, and twelfths.

 

The picture to the left shows all of the ways that you child will see fractions. 

Time
SOL 3.11 and 3.12
 

This week your child will be reviewing how to tell time on both analogue and digital clocks. They will also start learning how to tell the elapsed time, which is the time that has gone by.

 

Vocabulary

analogue clock: a clock with a face, hands, and numbers 1-12.

digital clock: a clock that tells the time outright like on a computer.

elapsed time: the amount of time that has passed

(ex. School starts at 7:00am and ends at 2:05pm, students are at school for 7 hours and 5 minutes )

 

**IMPORTANT:  3rd graders only tell the number of HOURS that have gone by and do not cross from a.m. to p.m. or p.m. to a.m.**

Plane and Solid Figures

(SOL 3.14)

 

Students need to be able to recognize and describe plane shapes and solid figures.
They will also need to compare and contrast plane and solid figures.

 

Plane Shapes

(two-dimensional, closed shape)

 

  • circle

 

  • square - 4 sides, 4 right angles

 

  • rectangle - opposite sides are congruent, 4 right angles.

 

  • triangle - 3 sides, 3 angles

Solid Figures

(3-dimensional, solid)

 

  • sphere - round like a ball; no sides/edges/faces

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  • cube - 8 verticies, 12 edges;
    face = square

 

  • rectangular prism -  8 verticies, 12 edges.
    face = rectangle

 

  • square pyramid - 5 verticies, 8 edges.
    face = 1 square (base), 4 triangles

 

  • cone - 1 vertex, no edges.
    face - circle

 

  • cylinder - no verticies, no edges.
    face = circle
     

Equivalent Time

(SOL 3.12)

Students are expected to understand the relationships among days, months, and years; minutes/hours:

 

365 days = 1 year

12 months = 1 year

7 days = 1 week

Each month has a set number of days

 

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

 

Students will need to use that knowledge to answer questions like:

 

"How many days are in 3 weeks?"

 

"How many hours are in 2 days?"

 

How many minutes are in 4 hours?"

 

"If the date is March 11, what date would it be in three weeks?"

 

Point - an exact location in space

 

Line Segment - part of a line. Has two endpoints.

 

Ray - part of a line. Has one endpoint and continues on forever in the opposite direction.

 

Angle - Made up of two rays that meet at a common endpoint called a vertex.

 

Line - A collection of points. Lines go on forever in both directions.

Congruent - same size, same shape.  

Both must be true in order to be congruent

Non-congruent - shapes that are not the same size, not the same shape, or both.

Fourth Grade
Adding and Subtracting fractions with Unlike Denominators

 

They need to follow these steps to be successful:

  1. ​​create a chart using the denominators in order to find the least common denominator (LCD).

  2. Change the denominators, using multiplication, to the LCD

  3. Add or subtract to find their answer.

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Simplifying - when you use division to get the smallest fraction possible.

 

Greatest Common Factor (GCF) - finding the GCF of two or more numbers tells you what number to divide your fraction by. You write out all of the factors and the greatest number they have in common is GCF.

 

ex. Finding GCF for 4 and 12

4 (1x4, 2x2)

12 (1x12, 2x6, 3x4)     4 = GCF

This week your child is learning how to read, write, and identify decimals.

 

**This is something brand new for 4th graders**

                               Cube                               Flat                       Rod                       Unit

 

The way we taught students to remember the order of the place value blocks is by the saying, "Can Frogs Run Underwater?"  Cube, Flat, Rod, Unit

Wednesday

This week we are comparing, ordering, AND rounding decimals!!  It sounds like a lot, but we have already gone through all of the steps for each. The only difference now is that we are working with decimals instead of just whole numbers by themselves.

 

Vocabulary

comparing - looking at two numbers and deciding which one is greater, lesser, or if they are equal using  >   <   =

(example:   3.98  >  3.89)         

                     The 9 in the tenths place is larger than the 8                                 

 

ordering - putting numbers in order from least to greatest or greatest to least.

 

(1.8, 1.59, 1.42, 0.8, 1.08)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rounding - finding the closest number by looking at place value. Students need to understand how to round to the nearest whole number, tenths, and hundredths places:

 

  • whole number = ones place (ex. 23.761 rounds to 24)

  • tenths = tenths place (ex 23.761 rounds to 23.8)

  • hundredths = hundredths place (ex. 23.761 rounds to 23.76)

1.80       0.8

1.59       1.08 

1.42       1.42

0.80       1.59

1.08       1.8

We have students "stack" the numbers making sure that they line up the decimal. Once they have done that, they need to make all of the numbers have the same number of digits by adding "0" as place holders. This makes is much easier for them to put the numbers in order.

Fifth Grade
Order of Operations

 

The order of operations states:

 

P = Parenthesis - students should solve the numbers inside of parenthesis first

 

M/D = Mulitplication/Division - students should then solve any multiplication OR division problems. Which ever comes FIRST when working from left to right.

 

A/S = Addition/Subtraction - students should solve addition OR subtraction problems next. Which ever comes FIRST when working from left to right.

 

5 + (16-8) x 7

5 + 8 x 7

5 + 56

61 

 

  1. Solve (16-8) first to get 8 then rewrite anything that wasn't used yet.

  2. Solve 8 x 7 to get 56 then rewrite anything that wasn't used yet.

  3. Finally solve 5 + 56 to get the final answer of 61

This week we will take what we learned last week about angles and apply it to triangles.  Students need to make sure that they remember last week's vocabulary:

  • acute - less than 90 degrees

  • right - exactly 90 degrees

  • obtuse - more than 90 degrees

  • straight - exactly 180 degrees (straight line)

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We will continue to use that vocabulary when talking about the angles of a triangle.

 

Students need to be able to find the missing angle of a triangle when given the other two.  See the picture ----------------------->

 

*Angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees*

 

To find missing angle "a" students must:

  1. Add the angles that are given (36 + 57 = 93 degrees)

  2. Subtract the sum from 180 (180 - 93 = 87 degrees)

Angle "a" = 87 degrees

 

Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

 

  • mean - the average of a group of numbers"The mean teacher averaged our test grades"

  • median - the number that falls in the middle when the set of numbers is put in order from least to greatest.                         23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 45, 59

  • mode - most often. This is the number that occurs most often in the set.                        12, 33, 33, 54, 76, 92, 92, 33, 10, 33The number 33 shows up four different times in this set, which makes it the mode.

  • range - the largest number in the set minus the smallest number in the set.                         23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 45, 5959 - 23 = 36 (range)

 

 

 

 

Angles

Angle Vocabulary:

 

  • acute angle - is less than 90 degrees. The opening is small, so we call it "a cute" angle.
     

  • right angle - is exactly 90 degrees. The letters capital letters T, L, E, F, and H all make right angles.
     

  • obtuse angle - is greater than 90 degrees. The opening is wide.
     

  • straight angle - is exactly that, a straight line. This angle is exactly 180 degrees.

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Circles

 

Students will need to remember and recognize the parts of a circle:

 

  • Circumfrence - the distance around the circle; 3x the length of the diameter.

 

  • Chord - a line segment that connects two points on the circle; does not have to go through the center point.

 

  • Radius - a line secment that connects the center point to a point on the circumfrence. The radius x2 = diameter.

 

  • Diameter - a chord that goes through the center point

 

 

Plane Figures

 

Students should become familiar with the definitions to each of the following plane figures:

 

  • square - is a polygon with 4 sides, 4 right angles

 

  • rectangle - is a polygon with 4 sides and opposite sides are parallel and equal in length.

 

  • triangle - is a polygon with 3 sides. Names for triangles also include: 

-scalene: no sides are equal in length

-isosceles: two sides are equal in length

-equilateral: all sides are equal in length

-acute: all angles are less than 90 degrees

-right: one angle is exactly 90 degrees

-obtuse: one angle is more than 90 degrees

 

  • parallelogram - a quadralateral (4-sided) in which both pairs of opposite sides are parallel (see photo)

 

  • rhombus - a parallelogram with 4 congruent sides and opposite sides are parallel (see photo)

 

  • trapezoid - a quadralateral (4 sided) with one pair of parallel sides (see photo)

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