Puppets and Script Writing

Reminders:

Students must be at school at 8:00 a.m. this Friday, May 4  for our field trip to Marshall Gold Discovery State Park in Coloma!  Please make a note in your calendars and get ready to come to school early that day (and plan for a late return around 4:30). 

Spring Performance: Wednesday, May 23rd at 6:30pm in the Depot, the Strawberry class will perform our version of By the Great Horn Spoon. Rehearsal will be 3:30-6:30pm that day.

Homework:
Sentence and Punctuation multiple choice practice (due Thursday).

Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow

Purple group:  Standardized test practice--quantitative reasoning & estimationBlue Group Homework:  Function machines and using parenthesis.

Fifth Grade Math: Fifth graders struggled through more starter problems in division today. They wondered why they should have to do this when they could just use the algorithm. The truth is that they are wonderful for helping students develop number sense and strengthening mental math skills. Onward! ERB pages for homework.

Puppets and Scripts:  Our main focus today was on writing the scripts and trying to finish building the puppets for our show on May 23.  We had a "round table" discussion of how the scenes are coming along and many groups are ready to practice with the puppets.  This project requires personal dedication, cooperative team work, and flexibility in a group setting.  The kids are amazing!

Fourth grade math
Blue Group: Today we used our recently learned strategy for making equivalent fractions to help us add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.  Students learned to use the denominators from each fraction in the problem to create a fact family, and resulting common multiple for the denominator.  Some students are beginning to see connections between fractions using multiples, and for others this is a developing skill.  A few students had the opportunity to practice simplifying fractions as well.

Purple group:  We practiced multiplying fractions by whole numbers (like 1/2 of 10) as our warm up today.  Then students took an assessment to end our fraction and decimal unit.