Bring books for Book Swap tomorrow!

Reminders:

• Book Swap: Please drop off books for the Book Swap tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4. This is the last day to donate books.
  
• Readathon this Friday: Students will be reading all morning in class. They may bring in one sleeping bag and one small stuffed toy to read more comfortably if they wish, as well as books! If they wear pajamas, they should bring clothes to change into for recess in the park. It should be a wonderful morning dedicated to reading.
  
• Please return the volunteer sheet, which you can download here! We still need parent volunteers to help bake at school, bake things with children at home, or cook breakfast on Friday, April 6 at the Readathon.
  
• 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.

4th Grade Math Homework, due tomorrow
Blue Group Homework
Purple Group:
Option 1: Unit 6, pages 17-18
Option 2: More Fractions Handout

4th Grade Math
Blue Group: Today we used pattern blocks to find common denominators for fractions to begin adding unlike fractions together, practiced telling time on clock faces without numbers, and reviewed subtracting over zeros.
Purple Group: After our 5-minute multiplication warm-up, we shared equivalent fractions using 5x12 arrays, students broke arrays into different fractions, and they wrote equations summing to 1.

5th Grade Math

Fifth grade spent more time with estimation today. They added decimals by making sure the decimals were lined up in their vertical algorithm. Students are finding all kinds of interesting patterns in the palindromic numbers problem of the week. We work on it a bit each day. Homework can be downloaded on Monday's blog.

Chemistry Unit Project Gallery Walk
Students shared their books summarizing what they learned in our chemistry unit in science with the other students in the class. We asked students to rate work using the rubric, and make positive comments and ask questions on comment sheets. Students are still learning how to make specific comments, rather than blanket praise, but they did learn more chemistry from each other. After rating themselves for their work, students completed a 3-2-1 bridge thinking routine, comparing what they knew about atoms and matter at the start of the unit to what they know now. Snapshots of our gallery walk are below.