Author Archives: Smedley

About Smedley

I am so excited to be joining Quest Academy and the 4th grade team! I have been teaching for 6 years and love my job! I earned my Bachelors in Elementary Education and Special Education from Weber State in 2008 and my Masters in Learning and Technology from WGU in 2012! I love teaching all subjects but Math is my favorite! I have 3 awesome kids (Macey 8, Mack 6 and Laker 4) and have been married to my amazing husband, Shaun, for 11 years! In my free time I love to travel, blog, and watch sports. We are die hard Utes and Lakers fans! We also love all things Disney and love to visit Disneyland as often as possible!

Thanksgiving Break

First, Our class took the chapter 5 Math test yesterday that covered two digit by two digit multiplication. Our pretest average of this chapter was 19% and our class raised our average score to 83% on the final!  (This was … Continue reading

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Practice Test

For homework today please do the Chapter 5 practice test instead of the homework I posted earlier this week. Here is the link. Chapter 5 Practice test

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Building Everyone Up!

We have had a much more positive classroom the last month or so but a couple of issues have been arising. First, please reinforce with your kids that when someone politely asks them stop doing something (talking, humming, tapping their … Continue reading

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This last week we made leaves for a Grateful Tree. We wrote on each leaf things we are grateful for! One of our awesome parents came in and hung our leaves on a tree! I sure am grateful for my … Continue reading

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Parent Teacher Conferences

I have talked to a couple parents and have three appointment times available this Thursday. If you would like to request a meeting please email me. It would be sometime between 3:30 to 4:30 this Thursday. Thanks!Mrs. Smedley

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Spelling words

I have been adding additional spelling words to our spelling practice each week. They do not go along with the patterns or sorts they are 4th grade “Read Write Spell” words.  This week our words are:amountgardenraceresultbrotherYour kids practice them at … Continue reading

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Homework November 17-21

Word Sort Groups:Hulk Group sortIronman Group sortBatman Group sortThor Group sortMondayRead 20 minutesSort words and write them in your homework notebook. Math 5.4TuesdayRead 20 minutesSort words and write them in your homework notebook. Math (I noticed in looking at this particular assignment, that it could potentially cause … Continue reading

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Lattice Multiplication

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Area Model Double Digit Multiplication

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Baskets are Done!

Thank you for all of the help! Our baskets are over flowing! In facts we ended up having multiple baskets with all of the donations that we got from our awesome families! Thanks again for everything you donated! Now on … Continue reading

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