Homework
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:
Purple group:
Please finish Unit 8, pages 7, 8, 9, 10
Blue Group Homework: Estimation and Story Problems
Science homework, due tomorrow
Please finish both sides of the Rock Cycle handout
Details and links to help finish this work are below.
Everybody Needs a Rock - homework assignment related to the story due tomorrow: Find a rock that fits in your hand, write a description of it on the index card. Bring it all in tomorrow.
Community Lunch Thanks!
Many thanks to Hannah's mom Madelyn, Gwen's mom Madeleine, Milo's mom Tara, and Vivian's mom Jolie, as well as our cooks, Hannah, Gwen, Milo, Viv, Selihome, Nora, Ethan, and Sam for a wonderful Asian themed meal with home-made soda pop and chocolate pizza. Many thanks as well to all the generous parents who donated supplies for the meal. Everyone, including our special guest teachers, thoroughly enjoyed the meal!
Science--Geology
We have been studying rocks, learning about how they are made from minerals and how they come in 3 basic types: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Students have measured and studied different rocks, recording their characteristics, and today small groups tried to classify their rocks into one of the 3 types, and if possible, identify the kind of rock it is.
A key concept is that each of the 3 kinds of rocks can turn into either of the other rocks, in something called the Rock Cycle. Tonight's homework is about this cycle, and below are some resources to help answer the questions, if students have forgotten what they learned.
Yesterday we watched The Rock Cycle, the story of Louie the rock, which you can see here.
Today we used an interactive rock animation online, which you can see here.
Some examples of the 3 types of rocks can be found on the Rocks & Minerals website, by following different links.
Fifth grade math
Fifth graders learned
how to create a stem and leaf plot after measuring all their heights in
centimeters. They found mean, median, mode, and range, as well, then
worked in partners to create data sets based on word problems. Their
homework is downloadable on yesterday's blog.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Students are making a push for the rest of the year to finish memorizing their multiplication facts up to 12s. After a break of some weeks, we did another multiplication fact warm up that was generally quite successful, especially compared to the beginning of the year. We also shared strategies for breaking up double-digit multiplication problems into parts, and making sense of all the parts of the answer using story situations and pictures.
4th Grade Blue Group: Today we examined our estimation method to determine how close the estimates were to the actual solution to multiplication problems. We discovered that rounding numbers is a great way to make mental estimations, but to be aware of certain problems that arise. We determined that if both numbers in a problem are "rounded up" the estimation will be greater than the actual answer, and the reverse being true as well.
Fourth grade math
Purple group: Students are making a push for the rest of the year to finish memorizing their multiplication facts up to 12s. After a break of some weeks, we did another multiplication fact warm up that was generally quite successful, especially compared to the beginning of the year. We also shared strategies for breaking up double-digit multiplication problems into parts, and making sense of all the parts of the answer using story situations and pictures.
4th Grade Blue Group: Today we examined our estimation method to determine how close the estimates were to the actual solution to multiplication problems. We discovered that rounding numbers is a great way to make mental estimations, but to be aware of certain problems that arise. We determined that if both numbers in a problem are "rounded up" the estimation will be greater than the actual answer, and the reverse being true as well.
