Reminders:
We still need students to return their permission slips (download here) and more parent driver/chaperones for our trip to Sacramento on Thursday, June 7.
We still need students to return their permission slips (download here) and more parent driver/chaperones for our trip to Sacramento on Thursday, June 7.
The Walk-a-thon is this coming Thursday, May 24. Students should bring their envelopes with pledge cards and money for the What If? Foundation in Haiti to school, as well as small, light toys for the children there (see information sheet and slide presentation)
Performance Day: Our version of By the Great Horn Spoon puppet show, and the end of year recognition of fifth graders, will be Wednesday, May 23rd from 6:30-8:00pm in the Depot. Students will stay for rehearsal and pizza 3:30-6:30pm that day. Please let room parents Jolie Coursin or Clare Woakes know if you can help out.
Script Homework: Homework for next week (and over the weekend) is to learn their lines for the performance. Each child has a script (and some have several). The scripts can be found at the Strawberry Creek Gmail site (google documents): Strawberryfiles@gmail.com, password: strawberry1310. All of the scripts are in the Documents section (not the email section), and there is a folder on the side bar to view just to the scripts separate from the many other document files.
Working on Google Docs: If your child needs to access the scripts at the gmail site, it is best to print out or copy the script as a document file on your computer (rather than leave it open in google docs to read from and practice). This will alleviate accidental changes to the scripts that are "live" on the google doc.
Puppeteer Costumes: On the performance day of Wednesday, May 23, the students should bring (or wear to school) plain black or dark colored tops (dark grey, navy blue etc.). Please avoid shirts with pictures, large logos or words displayed on the front. In our puppet show, the upper half of the puppeteer (student) is visible, and becomes part of the background.
Students who were not in ERB make up testing contemplated the question: Is this game fair? Pairs of students tossed pairs of coins 30 times, to find out how often they observed two heads, two tails, or a head & a tail. We learned how to calculate probability by dividing the number of favorable outcomes by the number of possible outcomes, and practiced calculating probability in different situations with spinners, dice, or coins. In the coin experiment, students figured out that the game isn't fair: there are 4 possible outcomes because there are 2 different ways of getting a head & tail. A rousing chance/choice game of SKUNK finished the class.
