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Mr. Pederson

I teach 5th grade in room 204.

 I have lived in Minneapolis for 25 years and I love living here in Minneapolis. I am married, to my lovely wife Beth of 18 years, and we have one child, Sierra Grace Alto-Pederson who attends school here at Lyndale. I have worked in the district for the past 16 years. I worked at Roosevelt High School for one year, Armatage Elementary for 2 years, Anderson Elementary for 1 year, Richard Green Central for 3 years, 2 years at Roosevelt, two year leave of absence (to stay home and raise my daughter), 1 year at Lucy Laney and now the past three years at Lyndale Community School. My hopes and dreams are that I will be here at Lyndale for a long time to come. I love working at Lyndale because we have such a wonderful staff, we have great community and parental support, we have incredibly bright students and we have a great leader in Ms. James. 

In my free time I like to ride bike, cook, golf, play tennis, go for walks, play board and card games with my family, paint, read, write and watch the Vikings and Minnesota Gophers Mens Basketball. 
Math

We have designed our math curriculum to align with the Minnesota State Standards for 5th grade. Topics to be covered this year:

August/September - addition/subtraction, multiplication and division of 2 and 3 digit numbers;  estimating; inverse; 

October - read and write decimals from millions to millionths; find 0.1, 0.01, 0.001 more than; finding greater than and less than of decimals, rounding decimals to the thousandths, adding and subtracting of decimals.

November - adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators; finding equivalent decimals, fractions and mixed numbers.

December - Patterns of change, graphing, commutative, associative and distributive properties; order of operation.
Reading

We are really pushing students to read, read, read, read, read, read........read! Everybody should read 6,000 pages by the end of the school year. 
Social Studies/Core Knowledge

In social studies, we study history and geography to better understand the world in which we live.
Science

In science, we learn to question, observe, compare, sequence, describe and communicate to investigate the world.
Health

In the health subject area, we develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to make good choices for our own personal health.