Matematicas:

Students have homework on a fairly regular basis. I try to teach 3-4 lessons a week, with a day or two for review and additional support. Expect "Home Links" from the Everyday Mathematics curriculum. This is a wonderful way for students to show you what we are doing in class AND revisit our lesson from the day.

I will post some of the homework assignments from time to time here.

Also, you can access the Everyday Mathematics curriculum and find our 4th grade homework assignments in English! Here is the website... http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/ 

Here is a Wendy Bollum (a student) led "Greenvale Khan" instructional demo on 3 different ways to do multiplication (this will take you away from the our website, just hit "back" to return):

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=B0958Nc

Science:

We have Science journals that will be used to complement the boxes. Student will use their journals to explore ideas that have been generated from observations in class, and from their boxes.

Science Table! We are constantly looking for interesting science experiments. We love it when a student brings in an interesting article. We love it when students bring in things to look at and investigate (a teacher brought in a wasp nest, no wasps of course). Each day the students can look at our Science Table where students display their finds and objects. Please make sure to tell your child if you want this object back or not! I encourage students to create their own homework in science. Look, investigate, share.

Spanish:

In this Spanish immersion setting, we try to use as much Spanish as possible. I find that a student will try harder to speak more Spanish if they are encouraged at home. THIS IS HOMEWORK FOR PARENTS: ask your child to teach you Spanish words every day and encourage them to practice at home.