Instructional Objectives:

Steve Von Osten

ext. 311

svonosten@rrps.net

We have completed one quarter of the year and time seems to be flying by, I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season!

Mrs. Daniels and Mr. Von Osten are team teaching for the 2009-2010 school year. Mrs. Daniels will be teaching Language Arts and Social Studies. Mr. Von Osten will be teaching Mathematics and Science.

Here's what we are doing in Mr. Von Osten's class:

Mathematics

Unit 4 begins the more formal study of decimals through thousandths.  Metric units of length, including conversions, are also studied.  Unit 4 has four main areas of focus:

- To extend the base-ten place-value system to decimals,

- To review and extend basic concepts, notation, and applications for decimals,

- To extend whole-number methods of addition and subtraction to decimals, and

- To review relationships among metric units of length, and guide students as they use them.

Science

Investigating Chemistry is our second C.H.O.L. (Center for Hands-On Learning) science kit. Students get their hands on many different kinds of materials in this unit as they explore physical and chemical changes, measure changes in mass with their own balance scale, and put their knowledge to work at the polymer lab.  We also introduce the Periodic Table of the Elements and concepts related to basic chemistry.