- Tomorrow is the Community Lunch: Strawberry students are preparing and serving lunch tomorrow, so your children do not need to bring a lunch (but should still bring a snack). Eat Smart lunches will be served in our room as an option for students who are signed up.
- Tomorrow is also Valentine's day. If you child chooses to make Valentines, please make sure they make one for all 24 students in the class (list of students), and do not include any candies or treats (we will have cookies as part of our Community Lunch that day). No need to pack a lunch.
- Wednesday is the field trip to Muir Beach: Please fill out, sign, and turn in the Muir Beach Student Waiver if you haven't already, so that your child can participate. Adults on the trip are covered by a group waiver and do not need to complete individual waivers.
- No school Friday, February 17 through Friday, February 24 for Prof. Dev. & Presidents Day break.
Fourth grade homework, due tomorrow
1. TERC Unit 4, pages 13-14
2. Practice multiplication fact family that gives you the most trouble for 10 minutes, using cards or Math Magician Multi
4th grade Blue Group Homework: Division and line plots.
Reading 30 minutes/night.
Analogies: Today we learned about analogies and practiced completing several together. The goal is for students to analyze the context of a comparison to determine how to complete the anology. Some examples from today to get us started: Go is to green as red is to _____. Land is to dirt, as ocean is to _____. Meow is to cat as ____ is to _____. And lastly, our challenge for the day, Seed is to tree as _____ is to _____.
4th Grade Math
Blue Group:Today the blue group practiced measuring in centimeters to calculate the perimeter of polygons and to consider the practical uses of perimeter. We then continued work from Friday on creating and analyzing polygons.
Purple group: Students started the day with a broken calculator problem, in which they couldn't use the 7 key, but had to write math expressions using addition and subtraction to equal the number 489. We talked about equations, and how expressions on both sides of the equal sign have to be equivalent.
Then students gave advice about our question of the day: How do we measure length accurately? Guidelines for measurement:
- Start at the zero on the ruler, of if you start at 1, subtract 1 from the number at the other end.
- Don't mix metric units (meter, centimeter, and millimeter) with US customary units (inches, feet, and yards).
- Line up the ruler and use your finger to mark the end of the ruler, as the point to start measuring again.
- Write down how many times you move the ruler or each subtotal, to keep track.
5th Grade Math: Fifth graders spent the morning measuring angles not with protractors but with other angles. They used polygon manipulatives to make deductions such as the following: if two equal angles put together form a right angle, then each of the angles must be equal to forty-five degrees. We will work with protractors, practice angle vocabulary, and play angle games in the week to come.
