- Fort Ross Dress Rehearsal tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 8:45 to 10:00 a.m. Families are welcome to attend, and please make sure your student comes to school in costume, with a change of clothes if necessary for recess. The students brought home an index card and sheet to prepare for tomorrow (see homework).
- Please send in your student's white portfolio binder and any Unicef Halloween money they collected.
- Look at home to see if your child brought home the Berkeley Public Library books Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan or The Sister's Grimm: Once Upon a Crime. These books are overdue and we need to return them.
- Dress Rehearsal Presentation practice & Reading log.
- Historical Fiction journal or story writing (students are bringing this home each day to work on). Tonight they should prioritize planning for the presentation tomorrow.
- No math homework tonight.
Our entire school met in the Depot to hear from the Student Council about their work forging new rules for recess. They will be setting up idea boxes in each classroom so all students can share their ideas with the council. We also sang a song Eve taught the students in music class, about medicine and healing people, sometimes called witches, from the past.
Lice Check:
We were glad to find that none of the students in Strawberry Creek had lice. Please be sure to keep checking your students at home!
Math:
Students had math in Strawberry Creek today, due to the Assembly and Lice Check. We learned two new simple games that only require two or more players, pencil, paper, and dice, and could easily be played at home: Top Sums and Bowl 'em Over. Below are the rules, but you can ask your child to teach you the games.
Top Sums (a place value game)
1. Roll a die.
2. Write the number in one box of an addition problem (an example template can be downloaded here). Once you write it down, you may not change its position!
3. Roll 4 more times and write each number down in one of the boxes.
4. Find the sum (answer).
The person with the biggest sum wins!
Bowl 'Em Over (number sense & writing numerical expressions game)
1. Roll the die four times and record the numbers.
2. Write equations using the four operations and at least 3 of the numbers to arrive at the numbers from zero to ten. For example, if you rolled 1, 3, 4, and 9, to knock over the 6 pin, you could write the equation 6 = (9-4) + 1.
3. Each correct equation knocks over its pin. You can knock over the 10 pin with an equation that equals 0 or 10.
4. At the end of a round, record how many pins you “knocked over”.
The winner(s) have the highest bowling score.
