Parents, come tonight to learn more about how to help students thrive socially at the event from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Depot.
Homework:
- Fort Ross: Please read over the green packing list handout for Fort Ross that students brought home today, and the green costume handout they brought home Friday.
- Spelling: For homework, the students will practice the words on their personal list, and complete the vocabulary word definition assignment. Due Thursday, 10/27/11.
- 5th grade math: Cerrito is off to China Town tomorrow, so there will be no regular homework tonight. However, the problem of the week is due Friday, and students should work on it for homework this week.
- 4th grade math: Cut out and bring in 2 examples of graphs from newspapers, magazines, or web sites. Give your parents their letter about this unit, which you can download here.
Due Wednesday, 10/26/11 (not tomorrow, since Cerrito will be on a field trip).
4th and 5th graders will have their own Math Club, led by Sima, on Thursdays in the Middle School during lunch and recess. Students will enjoy math puzzles, problems, and games, and some tasty baked treats.
Fifth graders began a new unit today on 3-D geometry. Read all about it in TERC's family letter (part 1 and 2). They built boxes and fit multi-link cubes inside to find volume. Most of them arrived at the formula for finding the volume of a rectangular prism by the end of class today and will formally learn it on Wednesday.
Fourth grade math questions for today: What is data? How can we describe a set of data?
We began our next unit, Describing the Shape of the Data (described here), about data analysis and probability. We met in half groups of students, with one group working in Strawberry with Jeff and Stephen, and one group in Wildcat with Sima. Students counted the number of raisins in small boxes and started organizing the class data to answer questions like: What is a typical amount of raisins in a box?
Spelling Lists: Today the students took a pretest of eight high frequency spelling words. They used their results to compile a personal spelling list. For students successful with the high frequency spelling words, challenge words were substituted for the personal lists.
Fort Ross: This afternoon we went over the packing list for Fort Ross. Please note that packed bags will be due at school on Friday, November 11 (before the trip day) to simplify our departure. We also discussed Night Watch and answered student questions.
Role Play Character Profiles: This week your student will develop a profile about his or her Fort Ross character. These will be sent home later in the week. This is a good opportunity to learn more about your child's character.
