Homework:
Read for at least 20 minutes
5th Grade Math: please check the Cerrito blog
4th Grade Math: (Same as yesterday.) Finish cutting out the MADS card game and play with someone at home at least one time this week. Record the day and person you played with on the envelope. Keep the envelope with your game cards stowed in your red math folder in your binder. Here are links to the instructions and playing cards for MADS.
This morning in Strawberry we shared more summer artifacts after a rousing round of a basketball style greeting. We are working on our hopes and dreams for the year, and shared some of the hopes students came up with from yesterday. A final piece will illustrate their ideas for hopes about family, friends, activities and school.
During Reading Workshop, Kellyne introduced the class to the book reviews we will write and display in the library as a way to celebrate the books we read this year. Most students have settled on their "Just Right" book and are ready to go for next week. Students who wish to bring books home to read for homework are asked to have a back-up chapter book at school at all times in the event they leave their preferred book at home.
USA - We began our focus on the United States today by watching the Fifty Nifty States song and beginning a states puzzle project. Each student will create a puzzle of their own of the 50 states. There are a number of video versions of the song. This is the one we watched today.
Here are a few photos from the end of our day.
Making a USA puzzle.
Julianne stopped by to introduce the students to the sketch books they will be using this year in Art class and led an activity to get them drawing freely while exploring different drawing tools.
