- Please volunteer for the Readathon & Bake Sale! We need parent volunteers to help bake this Thursday, April 5, bake things with children at home, cook breakfast or help with the Bake Sale on Friday, April 6 at the Readathon. More details here.
- Book Swap: Please drop off books for the Book Swap tomorrow, Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4.
- We need drivers for two field trips. Due to budget constraints, the end of the year camping trip has turned into a day trip to Marshall Gold Discovery State Park in Coloma on Friday, May 4, and a day trip to Sacramento to the State Capitol and Sutter's Fort on Thursday, June 7. Please let us know if you can drive.
Finished Chemistry Unit Projects are due tomorrow! More details about the project, including the checklist and rubric detailing the assignment, and links to videos the students can watch, can be found here. We will conduct a gallery walk, and it is important every student participates.
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Option 1 (plum): Unit 6, pages 9, 10, 14 & 15
Option 2 (periwinkle): Fraction Handout
Blue Group: Division and story problems.
Literature Partners: The wait is over. Today Strawberry students learned of their new book assignments and their partners. In this round of book groups the students plan with their partner to set reading goals, and follow teacher guided assignments for note-taking. Each week the partners will meet to officially discuss the reading and their notes. If a student needs more time than is available in school to read their book, they are asked to bring it home as part of the reading homework for the week.
New Read Aloud: Today we also began our new read aloud, Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli.
5th Grade Math: 5th graders practiced the essential skill of estimation today on a worksheet and in a game. For multiplication with decimals, it is essential for students to be able to check their answers with estimation. Does my answer make sense? Is that about what it should be? Is my answer totally absurd?
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Sima was absent today, so Stephen taught class. Questions of the day: How do fractions of differently sized wholes compare? How can we find the fraction of a group of things? Students used 5 x 12 rectangles to find many different fractions, and answered story problems asking them to find fractions of a group.
Blue Group: Today we continued our work with fractions by delving into the concept of one whole and fraction of the whole. The students are being stretched to understand that fractions represent part of a whole, which can change depending upon what the "whole" is, and then apply this to problem solving with the pattern blocks.
