Thursday, March 22, 2012

Reminders:

  • TBS Art Show is this Friday, March 23 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Depot. We hope you can join us!
  • Please bring back the portfolios.


Homework


Writing: Begin a written review of your opinion of the movie based on By the Great Horn Spoon. This is a 10-15 minute quick write expressing your opinion comparing and contrasting the book and the movie.

3 week Reading log due on April 6.

Fourth grade math homework:
Purple group:
Cerrito students should share the strength and challenge work they chose for their portfolios last week, as well as the packet of math assessments, with their parents. Please return these papers to school as soon as possible, preferably tomorrow or Friday. No homework for Strawberry Creek students in the purple group.

4th Grade Blue Group: Homework


The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin: Today we watched most of the movie based on the book, By the Great Horn Spoon. We had a rousing discussion of the many differences in the movie, and array of scenes, characters and events that the movie left out, or altered.


5th Grade Math: Fifth graders worked more with Base-10 Blocks today to show decimal numbers and divide decimals in half. They played a game and did a worksheet to practice comparing decimals. Problems of the week are due tomorrow in addition to the worksheet that an be downloaded from Monday's blog post.

Fourth grade math
Purple group:
After a mental math warm-up, students took an end-of-unit assessment for our geometry unit, and pre-assessments to see how well they understand addition and subtraction of large numbers, place value, and telling time.

Blue Group: Today the students worked on an end-of-unit assessment for geometry followed by some exploratory time with geo-boards and pattern blocks.