- Book Swap: Please drop off books for the Book Swap if you haven't yet had a chance.
- Readathon this Friday: Students will be reading all morning in class. They may bring in one sleeping bag, one pillow, 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. We are looking forward to it.
- Bake Sale this Friday: Hopefully all the families can donate something to our Healthy Bake Sale. If students would like to buy something from our bake sale, or donate money to the Marine Mammal Center, they should bring $1-$3 (3 item maximum per child) to school on Friday.
Three Week Reading Log is due on Friday.
4th Grade Math Homework, due tomorrow
Purple Group:
Option 1: Unit 6, pages 24-25; students may wish to download & print 5x12 rectangular arrays for fraction work
Option 2: More Fractions Handout
4th Grade Math
Blue Group: We read, Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, to include math in our focus on literature this week. Students worked on making common denominators to add fractions, and go started on the homework pages.
Purple Group: After a multiples and Around the World math fact warm-up in the sun, students finished a fraction assessment, and we discussed how to add fractions, using rectangular array representations to help. We noted that by converting fractions to equivalent fractions with the same denominator, we can simply add the numerators.
5th Grade Math
5th grade added decimals today and put more time into their problems of the week. I am proud of how much progress everyone has made on their POW, and it's only Wednesday. I heard numerous students say today, "I thought the answer was this, but it can't be that!" That is the sound of a math brain at work. Homework is in the packet. Remember that gymnasts are trying to get the highest possible number of points.
Cultural Studies and the end of year performance: Today the students began the first steps of preparing for our end of the year show. We will be interpreting the book, By the Great Horn Spoon, with special adaptations by the students. A group brainstorming activity led us to create lists of how to improve the cultural representation of the story, which will necessitate creating new characters. We used the movie version as a way to evaluate one way of doing this.
Puppets: The performance will include puppets. The students began the first step of creating the puppet today, and will be developing a character starting tomorrow.
