- Our field trip to the Tilden Botanical Garden was moved to this Thurs., Oct. 13.
- Please turn in your signed permission slips for the Mission Dolores field trip next Thurs., Oct. 20.
- 4th grade math homework due tomorrow
Option 1: Unit 1 Pages 41-42
Option 2: Factors & Even/Odd - 5th grade math: Homework for this week can all be downloaded in this packet.
- Narrative Writing, a Moment in Time, due tomorrow, Wed., Oct. 12
- Reading log, due this Fri., Oct. 14
- Science: Food chains, due next Tues., Oct. 18 (see below for instructions to use with handout, which you can download here)
Fourth grade math, today's question:
Are all the factors of a number always factors of a multiple of that number?
Students counted around the room with multiples of 100s today, and we reviewed factors and multiples. Then we investigated the number 16 and its multiple 48, to see if all of the factors of 16 were also factors of 48, and whether this was true for any number and its multiples. Students found factors using arrays with grid paper, color tiles, or connecting cubes, and tried to write and draw clear explanations.
Fifth grade math: It was the day they've all been waiting for: the day they learned the algorithm for long division. They've built multiple towers, multiplied to divide, and invented their own ways to divide, but until today I had not taught the method that most of us have used since our own days as fifth graders. They took notes on it, practiced it, but will need much more practice before they have mastered it.
Writing: Over the next few writing classes we are focusing on narrative writing. The students began compiling information about an event in their lives for our "moment in time" assignment. Students are choosing topics and using a planner to list information about the event to help focus on the details of what was seen heard and felt. Later this week the students will settle on one event to turn into a narrative writing. We discussed "watermelon" topics, such as "summer vacation," and "seed" topics, such as "the moment I jumped in the lake." Our narrative focus is on seed topics.
Science:
We have been discussing food chains and today made a food web with the students in the classroom. For homework, students should finish coloring in their organism cards from the handout (which you can download here) cutting them out, creating 4 food chains, and gluing or taping them to the piece of cardstock they brought home in their green folders.
Please color in the organism by their role in ecosystems:
- green: producers
- yellow: herbivores
- red: carnivores
- orange: omnivores
- blue: decomposers
Food web activity
