Tuesday, March 20, 2012

By the Great Horn Spoon!

Reminders:
  • Please bring back the portfolios.
  • TBS Art Show is this Friday, March 23 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Depot. We hope you can join us!
Homework:
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:
Complete G4-16 on page 170, Comparing Shapes, and G4-17, Sorting & Classifying Shapes, problems 1-2 on page 171 till halfway through page 172 in the JUMP packet, which you can download here
Blue Group homework

Science homework, due Friday
Students are putting together booklets to demonstrate their learning in our Chemistry unit. The handout describing the project can be downloaded here. Students who did not finish the first entree in class, defining the 8 vocabulary words, have brought home their booklets and crossword puzzles with the definitions of the words, to finish at home as homework. Note that we will be working on the other entrees, appetizers, and desserts over time.

Some of the short StudyJam videos students may want to review can be seen here:
By the Great Horn Spoon!
Today we finished our Gold Rush read-aloud book. Ask your student what their favorite character was.

Fourth grade math
Purple group: Students shared ways of finding areas of convex and concave pentagons, using more efficient strategies than just counting squares. Then we worked on categorizing polygons by the number of vertices, sides, types of angles, and lines of symmetry, to review for our assessment tomorrow.

Blue Group: Today we began class by discovering ways to divide a 4cm x 4cm square into equal halves in as many ways as possible, which seems simple at first, but grows more and more complex, leading eventually to highly creative solutions. Doing this, students learned to calculate area as a way to determine equivalency.

Fifth Grade Math: Fifth graders used Base-10 Blocks™ to build and read fractions up to thousandths. They used calculators to multiply decimals after making mental estimates. They cut out decimal cards and placed them on number-lines. It's decimals, decimals, and more decimals this unit. Check yesterday's blog for the hw and problem of the week.
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