Thursday, September 27, 2012

REMINDER! State Spelling Quiz TOMORROW on Illinois-Mississippi.
 
Homework:
5th Grade Math - Please visit Cerrito's Blog
4th Grade Math -  No homework this evening due to our assessment today.
State Spelling: Spelling study sheet, Illinois-Mississippi for state quiz TOMORROW.

Upcoming Dates:
No School on Friday, October 5 - TBS Professional Development Day
No School on Monday, October 8 - Indigenous People's Day


4th Grade Math: Today another group of students began the ongoing activity that all students will participate in called The 9 Lines.  This is a multi-sensory approach to teaching the multiplication facts developed by David Berg of Making Math Real. We also worked with number tiles to practice problem solving and refresh our place value knowledge. Afterwards, we assessed the progress in multiplication, subtraction, and addition with an assessment.

Kate and Stephen came in for our Class Meeting today and taught the game "Elbow Tag". Linked with a partner, everyone tries to escape the touch of the tagger and the tagger runs from the runner. Sounds complicated, but it was actually very fun. We look forward to adding it to our bank of games. We continued our State Study this afternoon, diving deeper into our research and map making.