Homework:
5th Grade Math: Math Homework page due Thursday.
4th Grade Math: 9-Lines practice and Word Problems due Thursday.

State Spelling Practice-- quiz Thursday!

After a nice long four-day weekend it was nice to be back in Strawberry Creek. We began the morning by tidying up our cubbies and sharing all the exciting activities from the weekend. In math, we continued working on our 9-Lines and place value review.

Math club was held during lunch with Sima today. The 13 students in 4th/5th grade Math Club today were very engaged with a new problem, game, and puzzle today.  Some of the boys in particular enjoyed the new game Intersections, trying to make lines intersect as many other lines as possible.  Many girls and boys pondered the Growing Staircases problem, a classic pattern-finding activity where students try to derive an algebraic function to predict the number of blocks necessary to build staircases, by drawing pictures, using color tiles, and writing expressions.  Some kids were intrigued to find out what an "nth stair" is!  A few students worked on Puzzles, including figuring out how many different shapes one can make with 4 regular hexagons.  How many do you think there are?

Some students took the opportunity to finish up their Neddiad story during Writer's Workshop, while others worked on their vocabulary in Wordly Wise. We played a state spelling review game after lunch to familiarize ourselves with the states that we are focusing on this week and then dove right into our state study. We are finishing up the maps and research this week, with Thursday being the last day to work on it in class.