Reminders:
- Chaperone meeting for Fort Ross tonight from 7-8 p.m. in the classroom!
- Please return your signed permission slip for this Thursday's field trip.
- Remember, no school or childcare this Friday, Oct. 7 or Monday, Oct. 10.
Homework:
- Reading log due Thursday. Read chapters 7 and 8 in Island of the Blue Dolphins and complete the reading packet for the chapters. Due Thursday.
- 5th grade Math: This week's packet (includes homework and classwork) This week's POW (to be worked on in class)
- 4th grade Math: Create multiplication cards (Blank Math Cards) and practice multiplication facts you are working on, reading the instructions and documenting them on the Homework Handout (due tomorrow).
Optional Problem of the Week: Three Light Switches (due Tues., Oct. 11).
Math:
Fifth graders learned to multiply to divide today. In other words, we talked about how just as subtraction is the opposite of addition, division is the multiplication. We then used "multiple towers" to show the multiples of a given number until we arrived at another number. Students took notes in their math notebooks, so any questions about tonight's homework can hopefully be answered by a glance at their notes.
Our warm up in 4th grade math was a Quick Image of 30 dots, which were seen as 5 x 6, 6 x 5, and 2 x 15, among other ways. Young mathematicians practiced their multiplication with some multiple choice questions, and played more math games to strengthen their fluency with multiplication facts. Several students acted out and discussed the Handshake problem, and shared patterns they noticed.
Our warm up in 4th grade math was a Quick Image of 30 dots, which were seen as 5 x 6, 6 x 5, and 2 x 15, among other ways. Young mathematicians practiced their multiplication with some multiple choice questions, and played more math games to strengthen their fluency with multiplication facts. Several students acted out and discussed the Handshake problem, and shared patterns they noticed.
Class meetings:
Students gave speeches and held elections for our 4th and 5th grade representatives to the school Recess Council. It was wonderful to see how seriously the candidates took the job. Mia will be our 4th grade rep, and Jesse will be our 5th grade rep. The other candidates, and other students as well, will have the opportunity to represent Strawberry Creek in future councils.
In class meeting, we discussed having recess before lunch, and what students could do to change this new routine at school back to the old routine of lunch before recess.
