Reminders:
- No school or childcare available this Friday, Jan. 13, for Report Writing Day.
- Please sign and return the permission slip your student brought home for the field trip to the Oakland Museum of California on Thursday, January 19 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Homework:
Strawberry Creek
Strawberry Creek
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:
Practice multiplication facts for 10 minutes using cards, Math Magician Multi, or one of the following games:
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| Destination: Golden Gulch |
Pumpkin Multiples, Snowball Fight, or Patty's Paints (these 3 games can be used to practice 12's)
Option 1: Plum, Unit 3, page 19, pages 23-24
Option 2: Periwinkle, Division with Remainders handout
Blue group:
Blue Group Homework
Fifth graders began their day with a mini-lesson on reading decimal numbers and decimal place value. They converted between decimals, fractions, and percents. The culmination of their day was a word problem in which they had to decide on a tip for a waitress and write about why they chose it and how they calculated it. tonight's homework
Getting to the Gold Country
Students worked in their small groups on the first decision in the Gold Rush simulation.
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| Student "Prospector" excitedly rolls for their group to find out the consequences of their decision to take the "short cut." |
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| Great excitement to make to the Gold Country! |
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| It can be hard to decide where to stake your claim. |
Word Study program: Today we began working in our new Words Their Way word study workbooks. The goal is for students to analyze words based on a spelling concept, sort them into groupings and practice using the words in a variety of ways in class. At the beginning of the week the students will bring the words home to practice the sort tried in class, and record the sort in writing.
Fourth grade math
The purple group looked through marked work from the past month, to see how they are doing in understanding multiplication, division, subtraction, and data interpretation. Then we did another multiplication fact warm-up for five minutes. Students are expected to practice their multiplication facts through 12s, and each week we are checking to see if their speed and accuracy is improving against their own personal best time.
The question of the day: "How can we solve double-digit division word problems?" We looked at some double-digit division word problems in the TERC book with and without remainders, strategies to divide large numbers by halving the numbers or breaking up a larger number into a power of ten plus a smaller number, and dividing these.
4th Grade Blue Group: The blue group began working with division concepts today. We read, The Doorbell Rang, by Pat Hutchins to introduce the idea of sets of things (plates of cookies etc.). The students began work in the packet sent home today. The goal is to work on the packet tonight and tomorrow night in the 30 minutes of written homework time. We are continuing to practice multiplication in class, and basic multiplication facts. PLEASE practice multiplication facts at home. The students have their multiplication cards in their binders, or just roll dice and multiply.
4th Grade Blue Group: The blue group began working with division concepts today. We read, The Doorbell Rang, by Pat Hutchins to introduce the idea of sets of things (plates of cookies etc.). The students began work in the packet sent home today. The goal is to work on the packet tonight and tomorrow night in the 30 minutes of written homework time. We are continuing to practice multiplication in class, and basic multiplication facts. PLEASE practice multiplication facts at home. The students have their multiplication cards in their binders, or just roll dice and multiply.
