Lessons to help your student succeed
Let's focus on math in the spring trimester for elementary students. Last week and this week we're suggesting what students are doing in the classroom and what you can do at home for each grade level.
Third grade
At school, students will:
*Tell time in half-hour increments, using both digital and analog clocks.
*Use elapsed time in half-hour increments, beginning on the hour or half-hour, to determine start, end and elapsed time.
*Recognize that there are 60 minutes in one hour.
*Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch.
*Measure to a required degree of accuracy (e.g., to the nearest inch).
At home, you can:
*Practice telling time on digital and analog clocks.
*Ask your child to determine the elapsed time (e.g., We arrived at the store at 1:30 and we are leaving at 3:00. How long were we here?).
*Practice measuring objects using rulers, yardsticks and meter sticks.
Fourth Grade
At school, students will:
*Be solving problems involving measurements and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
*Be representing and interpreting data.
*Understanding concepts of angles and measuring angles.
*Drawing and identifying lines and angles.
*Classifying shapes by their properties.
At home, you can:
*Practice identifying angles in real life situations.
*Encourage students to use units of measurement from customary and metric system.
*Measure angles using a protractor.
Fifth Grade
At school, students will:
*Plot ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. Use real-world situations to learn how to use the coordinate plane.
*Analyze and classify two-dimensional figures.
At home, you can:
*Work with your child on how to read a map and locate places on a grid (coordinate plane).
*Have your child observe and recognize two-dimensional shapes in your daily life. Identify the name based on sides and angles.
The source of the information is from the Coeur d'Alene School District. Send your helpful tips to: amors@roadrunner.com