Homework
4th Grade Math: Division and multiplication word problems.
5th Grade Math: Packet
Cultural Studies: 15 minutes working on Lewis & Clark profile packet. See below for a hint if your child is stuck.
Field Trip Permission for January 29 to S.F. MoMA - due signed on Friday.
Winter Sing: Tomorrow night is the winter sing. Please see the handout coming home today (that had originally intended to be sent home last week - so ignore the title declaring the sing is next week.)
4th Grade Math: The 4th grade began our geometry unit today by making a Tangrams set from from a 4" x 4" square of paper. There are 7 pieces made in total, and it is tricky figuring out how to put it back together into a square again. We are using Tangrams to discuss and become familiar with geometry terms.
Today in Strawberry: We began our day discussing an Impressionist painting and contrasting it to a Surrealist painting. We discussed color choices, topic or theme and style. During writing the students continued working on narrative stories about moments in time. We began with a share of a story Jeff is working on about a childhood injury for a different look at how to write a narrative. This afternoon we continued in our read aloud journey with Sacagawea, and were finally introduced to Lewis and Clark and other members of the party. Our follow-up work in Cultural Studies (coming home tonight) was to read more about the Corps of Discovery, and identify traits of the members of the team, both positive and negative (gifts and challenges). For example, York has the trait of being strong, a hard worker and popular with the Native tribes because he stood out for being the only African American they had ever seen. York's challenge (negative trait) is that he is a slave owned by Clark. We don't know if he chose to be there, and he is not being paid.
