4th Grade Math: Division page from class. Please work on 5-10 problems at home.
5th Grade Math: Packet page
Strawberry Secret Santas: Tomorrow is our first day to exchange homemade Secret Santa gifts. Students should have something simple that can be made at home (a card, picture, etc.). Friday will be reserved for the gifts that are between $5-$10.
End of year Appreciation Cards due Thursday - We are encouraging the students to write about 5 a day, so they are not writing them all at the last minute. In class today we had students model appreciations, and gave examples of how they are coming up with ideas: making brainstorm lists, thinking about an activity when they were grouped with classmates etc. We have been practicing how to give appreciations to people that we do not interact with as much or feel that we know that well, so hopefully this has helped everyone come up with some genuine appreciations!
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Class Holiday Party, Friday, December 21: While we look forward to a family event later in the year, this party is for the students. Parents are not expected to attend.
Math Club students were engaged in a lot of different activities: using coordinate graphs to make gingerbread houses, a lollipop number puzzle, a December 25 number game, a sidewalk patterns problem, and some holiday math puzzles and problems. During lunch, we watched the rest of the Vi Hart video, the Gauss Christmath Special, and learned about a cool addition trick Gauss made famous and triangular numbers. Ask your math club student to amaze friends and family by adding up all the numbers from 1 to any other number this holiday season.
After snack this morning we spent some time on Wordly Wise in hopes to catch up to Lesson 8 before winter break. We switched off working in the book and playing word games on the Wordly Wise website. Feel free to check out the website and play games at home to reinforce the learning that is going on in class!
Some of the book clubs met today and the other clubs will meet tomorrow.
During cultural studies students read more in depth about the Revolutionary War. Our chapter explored who formed the Continental Army and how they defeated the British. We also had a chance to look at different depictions of some of the events that led up to the war as well as some drawings showing the battles at Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Yorktown.
