Reminder: Please send your student to school with their permission slip for our Exploratorium Field Trip on Thursday, December 6.
We started off this morning with a geography bee for our Cerritoberry meeting. Students worked in mixed groups of eight people and talked with one another to find the answers to a variety of questions about United States geography.
4th Grade Math: In math, we continued our work with measuring and graphing. We measured one another and then made a line plot graph to analyze the different heights in our class.
We continued our Wordly Wise study today with students checking their most recent sections and making corrections. We also reviewed some of the science we have done with electricity this week in a brief assessment.
We took advantage of the rainy day weather and caught up on a few of our state videos. We learned about Washington, Utah, and Rhode Island.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Step Up Day
4th Grade Math Homework: Multiplication Math fact cards practice. Since we did not have math today, the students were not given additional homework, and do not have the sheet called, "Practice with multiplication cards," as indicated they would on the flash card schedule for Thursday. We will do this part in class tomorrow.
Also, please work on Wordly Wise for 15-20 minutes this evening.
Reminder: Please fill out and return the pink Exploratorium Field Trip Form.
*Drivers have already signed up on the class Wiki, however if you are available as a back up driver, please let us know on the form.
Today we welcomed the Sweet Briar 3rd graders into Strawberry Creek while our 5th graders went up to Wildcat for the morning. In Strawberry Creek we read "The Doorbell Rang" and then played our division practice game, Leftovers. Fourth graders were paired with the third graders and they worked together to solve division problems. After doing some class work, we went outside and played our math variation of "What Time is it Mr. Fox?". The third graders did a wonderful job keeping up with our fourth graders and the fourth graders were great role models and helpers.
After a quick snack break, the students measured each other with meter sticks to create a height line plot. After graphing our heights, we analyzed the graph to find the mean, median, mode, range, and estimated average.
During our writing time the 3rd and 4th graders worked on a story with the starter "It was a dark and stormy day...". After starting their stories, students were given different animal names and modes of transportation that they had to incorporate into their stories. We had many creative, funny stories!
Science: Students built series and parallel circuits today and discovered how they could light 4 bulbs brightly with one battery (D-cell).
Also, please work on Wordly Wise for 15-20 minutes this evening.
Reminder: Please fill out and return the pink Exploratorium Field Trip Form.
*Drivers have already signed up on the class Wiki, however if you are available as a back up driver, please let us know on the form.
Today we welcomed the Sweet Briar 3rd graders into Strawberry Creek while our 5th graders went up to Wildcat for the morning. In Strawberry Creek we read "The Doorbell Rang" and then played our division practice game, Leftovers. Fourth graders were paired with the third graders and they worked together to solve division problems. After doing some class work, we went outside and played our math variation of "What Time is it Mr. Fox?". The third graders did a wonderful job keeping up with our fourth graders and the fourth graders were great role models and helpers.
After a quick snack break, the students measured each other with meter sticks to create a height line plot. After graphing our heights, we analyzed the graph to find the mean, median, mode, range, and estimated average.
During our writing time the 3rd and 4th graders worked on a story with the starter "It was a dark and stormy day...". After starting their stories, students were given different animal names and modes of transportation that they had to incorporate into their stories. We had many creative, funny stories!
Science: Students built series and parallel circuits today and discovered how they could light 4 bulbs brightly with one battery (D-cell).
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4th Grade Math: Multiplication problems (option 1 & option 2) and Wednesday's multiplication flash card assignment (Fact Cards and practice guidelines for each day of the week).
Wordly Wise: Students should work for at least 15 minutes on the lesson they are currently on in Wordly Wise.
We have an earlier than usual Step-Up Day tomorrow from 9-11am. This is when the students visit their next grade classroom. The 5th graders go to Wild Cat, 4th graders stay in Strawberry and are joined by 3rd graders from Sweet Briar.
A highlight today was our Buddy Time, making board games! Camera batteries ran out, so no photos today.
Wordly Wise: Students should work for at least 15 minutes on the lesson they are currently on in Wordly Wise.
We have an earlier than usual Step-Up Day tomorrow from 9-11am. This is when the students visit their next grade classroom. The 5th graders go to Wild Cat, 4th graders stay in Strawberry and are joined by 3rd graders from Sweet Briar.
A highlight today was our Buddy Time, making board games! Camera batteries ran out, so no photos today.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4th Grade Math Homework: Missing Factors and Tuesday's multiplication flash card assignment (Fact Cards and practice guidelines for each day of the week).
Writing Homework: Ten minute quick write in writer's book (or type and print out). Choose your writing prompt. Writing should be in paragraph form (indent, topic sentence, detail sentences and conclusion).
1. What would you do if you were invisible for a day?
2. What super power would you want and why?
Students in Math Club continued pursuing logic problems of increasing complexity today. Some students figured out a strategy to win a new game, Race to 20, and others enjoyed some puzzles and problems featuring some of our math club students' names. Finally, a few students looked at some interesting geometry problems predicting the results of folding and cutting paper. Next week: algebra and pattern finding!
Historical Fiction Book Groups: Today the students were assigned their book club jobs: Discussion Leader, Illustrator, Passage Master & Summarizer.
Science: We continued our work with electricity this afternoon exploring motors, switches, conductors and insulators. The students tested objects around the room with a conductor detector.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Electricity and Book Clubs
Homework:
5th Grade Math: Math Packet
4th Grade Math: Fact Cards and practice guidelines for the week.
Please fill out and return the pink Exploratorium Field Trip Form.
*Drivers have already signed up on the class Wiki, however if you are available as a back up driver, please let us know on the form.
Today we started our study of electricity. To prepare for our field trip to the Exploratorium next Thursday, we will be investigating electricity through a series of experiments this week. Our first experiment focused on lighting a small light bulb with two wires and a D-cell battery. Students were asked to explore how to make their light bulb light up with the given materials.
After successfully lighting the light bulbs, we took away a wire and figured out how to light it using only one wire.
Finally, students were given free reign of the materials and created their own circuits.
This afternoon we divided into our Historical Fiction Book Groups. There are six different groups and each group will be reading one of the following books:
5th Grade Math: Math Packet
4th Grade Math: Fact Cards and practice guidelines for the week.
Please fill out and return the pink Exploratorium Field Trip Form.
*Drivers have already signed up on the class Wiki, however if you are available as a back up driver, please let us know on the form.
Today we started our study of electricity. To prepare for our field trip to the Exploratorium next Thursday, we will be investigating electricity through a series of experiments this week. Our first experiment focused on lighting a small light bulb with two wires and a D-cell battery. Students were asked to explore how to make their light bulb light up with the given materials.
After successfully lighting the light bulbs, we took away a wire and figured out how to light it using only one wire.
Finally, students were given free reign of the materials and created their own circuits.
This afternoon we divided into our Historical Fiction Book Groups. There are six different groups and each group will be reading one of the following books:
Night Journeys
Under the Blood Red Sun
Sarah Bishop
Dear America: My Heart is on the Ground
Dear America: The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce
The Sign of the Beaver
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!
There is no homework over the Thanksgiving break.
We had a wonderful day celebrating things that we're thankful for and baking apple pies. We spent the early afternoon peeling, coring, and cutting apples. We rolled out the dough that we made yesterday and filled the pies with the apples, cinnamon, and sugar and in the oven they went!
After lunch we read the book Giving Thanks and discussed all the things that we are thankful for. After brainstorming together as a class, we split up and wrote a chain of thanks-- strips of paper linked together with our thanks written on them.
We celebrated the end of the day by eating pie and linking our thanks chains together.
Have a wonderful break and a great Thanksgiving! See you on Monday!
We had a wonderful day celebrating things that we're thankful for and baking apple pies. We spent the early afternoon peeling, coring, and cutting apples. We rolled out the dough that we made yesterday and filled the pies with the apples, cinnamon, and sugar and in the oven they went!
After lunch we read the book Giving Thanks and discussed all the things that we are thankful for. After brainstorming together as a class, we split up and wrote a chain of thanks-- strips of paper linked together with our thanks written on them.
We celebrated the end of the day by eating pie and linking our thanks chains together.
Have a wonderful break and a great Thanksgiving! See you on Monday!
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