Reading schema homework, due Friday
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group: Please finish your JUMP math packet from yesterday and Unit 3, pages 55-56.
Blue group: no homework tonight.
Fifth grade math:
They have two pages of homework this evening, which can be downloaded on Monday's blog.
Science
This week we have been continuing student independent research on their topic of interest related to oceans, but we have also launched a new chemistry unit on the elements. We started with a 3-2-1 thinking routine, where students wrote 3 ideas, 2 questions, and 1 metaphor or simile about the sentence "Matter is made of atoms." We talked about the 3 states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas, and watched a Bill Nye video about matter and atoms, which you can watch here: Video. We will continue thinking about these topics for the next few weeks, then repeat the 3-2-1 after the unit, so kids can see how much they've learned!
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Our question of the day: What happens to products when we double or halve factors? We started with quick image warm-ups, then discussed two related word problems. Students shared how they thought about putting 168 apples in bags if 28 or 14 apples fit in a bag. Then they worked on pairs of other problems that double of halve factors.
4th Grade Blue Group: The blue group learned how to break multiplication problems, like 17 x 31, into smaller parts to solve. No homework was assigned today.
Fifth grade math
Fifth graders played more Roll Around the Clock and did Show Me 1/2 work.
