No School on Friday, October 5 - TBS Professional Development Day
No School on Monday, October 8 - Indigenous People's Day
4th Grade Math: Today we worked with the Cuisenaire Blocks to reacquaint ourselves with fractions. We talked about 1 whole, 1/10, 2/5, 1/2 and a few other fractions. We're looking forward to doing more work with these rods throughout the year.
We started off the day with a CerritoBerry meeting and worked with groups through a survival simulation. After learning that the group had been in a plane crash, students were asked to rank the importance of a number of items in order to survive. It was a lively discussion with many ideas!
We wrapped up our state spelling for the week with an short quiz on the states and then began a writing project based on our read aloud book, The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater. We'll continue to work on this writing through the next couple of weeks.
If some of you recall, at Back to School Night we shared the wonderful class meeting discussion we had around interest groups and hobbies. Well, this week we put it into action and had our first "open classroom" recess where some groups met and discussed their interests and others used to time to explore our art materials. Very cool!
Mythology Group
