- Community Lunch tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28! No need to pack a lunch.
- Start collecting books for next week's Book Swap. Books may be dropped at school on Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4.
- Save the date for the Readathon & Bake Sale: Friday, April 6! We will need parent volunteers to help bake for the sale Thursday, April 5 and cook breakfast that Friday. More details to come.
- Save the date for our Class Presentation on Wednesday evening, May 23.
- With the end of the Dresher Music project tomorrow, our schedule is changing. You can download a copy of our schedule here; a link is also on the left side of the blog.
Reading: 30 minutes, record on reading log
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group
Option 1: JUMP Math packet
For students working on multiplication facts:
Create your 2 flip books to practice the 15 facts. You can download and print out (double-sided) another copy of these sheets here. Fold over the sides, then cut between each fact on the solid lines.
Option 2: Record (both in digital and analog form) the time you get up, eat breakfast, go to school, etc. on the paper strip I gave you. Include pictures of the clock and the digital time for at least 5-6 different events in your day. Have fun with it!
Science
We continued working on the Chemistry Unit Project books, today focusing on Chemical vs. Physical Changes. Students were encouraged to add explanations; detail, label, and color illustrations, and in general do their very best work, using the assignment and rubric as guidelines. Next week students will share their books with each other in a Gallery Walk, and assess each others' work using rubrics, as well as assess their own work.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: We started our Tuesday with our usual 5-minute multiplication practice, and I shared with students flip books they can make to help practice the 15 most difficult multiplication facts from the 1's-10's tables. Then we reviewed how to tell time, using the small hour hand and the big minute hand, and counting by 5's. Unlike numbers, which can be rounded up, time intervals are always rounded down. Time also uses fractions, since we say "half past" (30 minutes after the hour), "a quarter past" (15 minutes after the hour), or "a quarter to" (15 minutes before the hour). Some students practiced these ideas with JUMP packets. Students already familiar with time tackled the problem of what minute the time is when the small hand is three tick marks past an hour. Again, they had to use fractions to figure out how many minutes each tick mark represents, if there are 60 minutes in an hour and 5 tick marks for each hour.
Reading
Our book groups presented their culminating projects today. Students explored the themes of their books through montages, passages, and "missing chapters".
A Wrinkle in Time
Hatchet
Mr. Popper's Penguins
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Matilda
