4th Grade Math: Extended multiplication facts: Option 1 or Option 2
5th Grade Math
Wordly Wise: The students will be bringing home Wordly Wise books to work on as part of homework.
Reminder: Field trip to the UC Botanical Garden on Tuesday, November 13 (9:00-12:00) We will return to school by lunch time.
4th Grade Math: The past few math classes we have focused on finding patterns in multiplication by looking at factors, multiples and most recently powers of 10. How the place value of a product can be predetermined when multiplying with factors ending in zero (40 x 2 = 80, 400 x 2 = 800, 40 x 20 = 800).
We focused some Wordly Wise time on adjectives and making more descriptive sentences. Everyone was really excited to incorporate words like grotesque, enchanted, incompetent, and brawny. We spent the rest of the time working on Wordly Wise and getting acquainted with the new words from lesson 4.
This afternoon was centered around talking about elections and the Electoral College. We did a little reading and watched a short video explaining the Electoral College before diving into our own little simulation of a presidential election. After we built some knowledge on the electoral college, we dove into a discussion about cats and dogs-- which makes a better pet? Our discussion proved to be a lively one, filled with strong opinions, valid points, and all those other great things that make up an election! Students were then asked to cast their private, personal vote to make up the "popular vote". It turned out that dogs were voted better 14 to 8. After the popular vote was cast, students then took on the role as the elector from the state that they researched. They cast their vote for their state and our electoral vote agreed with our popular vote. It was interesting to see how the two different votes agreed with each other, but when we took away a swing state like Florida from the "dogs" (29 electoral votes) or add California to the "cats" with its 55 votes the Electoral College could possibly win out over the popular votes.
Cat and Dog discussion.
