What is on the unit 2 math exam...

Unit 2's math test is about number sense, place value, and data. Students will have their Green Math Folders and their Writing About Math notebooks to use as study tools.

• Students will read large numbers aloud to the teacher. 
• Students will write numbers in standard form after they read the number written out as words. 
• Students will complete a Name Collection Box for a given number. For example, if I write "100" out as standard numbers, then in my Name Collection Box, I might write the following: one hundred, 10*10, 90+10, and the like.  Students will add and subtract 4 digits and 4 digits, such as 1,789 +9,087.
• Students will estimate the answer before they "solve" for the answer of 1,789 +9,087.
• Students will measure lines to the nearest centimeter and half centimeter.
• Students will read a tally chart, write out the data set from that chart, and solve for range, median, and mode.
• Students will fill in a bar graph with data that has been provided.

Tips for studying for Magnetism and Electricity Test: Friday the 20th of September

We will take our first BIG science test on Friday the 20th of September.

How should we prepare? First, magnetism and electricity are connected topics, but it is easiest to study them as separate topics. So begin with magnetism.
1. Go through your notebook and make sure all the magnetism terms are in a Word Dynamo list. Then play all the games that Word Dynamo creates. This will help you do well on the vocabulary section of the test. You should have already set up a Word Dynamo magnetism list from class work, but perhaps you were absent.
2. Google Bill Nye magnetism videos. He is a super kid friendly scientist from the USA and he has many videos. We watched one in class and put it into our You Tube playlist. Remember to open your GMAIL and then go to "MORE" and then to "YOU TUBE". This will get you into your You Tube account.
3. Use Mrs. Warner's website and go to the science tab at the top. Look for all the magnetism videos and websites. There are lots...
http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/
4. Look at the terminology pre-test that I give you in class this week, and make sure you understand the questions that you missed.

Now, how should we prepare for the Electricity section of the test.
1. Again, your Word Dynamo list is crucial. We began this in class, but some of you only entered 5 words.
2. We will create Google Presentations in class and at home this week. This will help you study for the questions about circuits, parallel circuits and series circuits, and the difference between static and current electricity, and the like. Your presentation will become a study guide, and it is fun to make one! This link is the presentation that you will "Make a copy" of and rename as your own. That way you change your presentation, not my presentation.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O4R9mXhc7ifR-tTs4kjt2aT_PG1R5Ttj9ib2TO7OcP4/edit#slid

Newsletter for September 6th

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Test for Math Unit 1 Geometry: Friday the 30th of August

What do you need to know?
1. Know your shape names and their traits. Play Polygon Capture to help you improve.
2. Know the difference between a line, line segment, and ray and be able to write their symbols. See the work you have stored in your Green Math Folder.
3. Know what a polygon is and is not. Again use your Green Math Folder to review this concept.
4. Know the difference between parallel and perpendicular lines.

Keep using your IXL geometry games. See the post on this blog page below this post.
We will use Monday to Thursday of this week to keep working on concepts for the Friday test.

Have you finished all the books in your orange book bag? UseTumblebooks.com

Tumblebooks.com is an amazing website that allows you to read books online or have them read to you. The username is aischennai and the password is books.

IXL Homework Links for Geometry Unit

Please use this link and scroll down to the "Geometry" section. These are the games, which are linked to the math standards that we use at AISC.

http://www.ixl.com/standards/common-core/math/grade-4