Here are some learning links (created by the wonderful Mrs. Stewart), which may help your students throughout the year:

• Binky's Facts and Opinions
• Brain Pop Latitude and Longitude
• Brain Pop Map Skills
• Brain Pop Rounding
• Brain Pop Water Cycle
• Chunking and Chipping Division
• Engineering Interact
• Factor Game
• Fruit Shoot Prime Time
• Giant Asteroid
• IXL Math Fourth Grade
• Kahn Academy Place Value and Rounding
• Latitude and Longitude Treasure Hunt Game
• Learn Zillion Partial Quotient Division
• Math Magician
• Multiplication Blocks Game
• Native American Cultures Power Point
• Online Math Text
• Pet Rescue Hotel
• Place Value Mystery Number Game
• Study Jams Water Cycle
• Water Cycle Interactive Diagram
• Weather Fronts

   I hope your students share my enthusiasm after our first week of fourth grade. I have enjoyed getting to know everyone and learning about their interests. I am very pleased with the way everyone has adjusted to my rules and routines, and we have already made some inroads into our curriculum. 

   In Social Studies, we began reviewing map skills learned in third grade. We will be extending this to using grids to locate places on a map, and also using a map scale to calculate distance on a map. I think students will enjoy acquiring these skills. Even though we use GPS almost exclusively now to navigate, there may be times when we have to rely on our map skills! 

   We will be having our visit from the Fire Safety Village this coming week, followed by our visit there next Monday. This is a very exciting trip for students, and they come away from it much the wiser about safety in many aspects of their lives. 

   In Math, we are learning about place value, and will be spending considerable time on this. It is fundamental to many math concepts, and therefore important that students have a very good grasp in this area. 

   Students will be taking their Reading Inventory and Math Inventory assessments in the next two weeks, which will help them to set goals for their reading and math this year. 

   Please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any concerns. 

   

Just a little about me- I was born in South Africa, and lived there until 1999. My husband Robert, was offered a transfer to Atlanta and we decided to give it a try. Seventeen years later we're still here!

My husband is a civil engineer and works for the city of Atlanta.  have two sons- Stephen and Mark, busy with graduate and undergraduate degrees respectively.

In terms of my teaching career; I taught high school math and biology in South Africa for several years. When we came to the United States, I volunteered in elementary schools and grew to love the upper grade levels. This will be my twelfth year at Addison.

I am very pleased to be in fourth grade for the fourth year! We have a wonderful team, and I look forward to another successful year.