4th Grade Math: Practice multiplication fact cards
5th Grade Math: Write a letter to Mike about your math resolutions
Words Their Way: Complete an open sort in spiral notebook
Book Club: Finish reading goal and job
Upcoming Field Trip Dates: Here are dates to put on your calendar - please note the April 11 late return. Also, more details will be emailed soon about the overnight in June. Driving trips will be placed on the wiki very soon as well. If you would like to be a chaperone for the non-driving trips on 1/29 or 4/11, please contact Jeff directly.
- Tuesday, January 29, S.F. MoMA (8:30-3:00, BART)
- Date TBD soon - Hike and activities based on Lewis & Clark (likely the 1st week of Feb. , drivers needed)
- Thursday, February 14 (Valentine's Day), Tree Planting with EBMUD (8:30 - 2:00, drivers needed)
- Thursday, April 11, Amtrak to Sac. Train Museum (8:30-5:00) pick up at 5:00pm at the Berkeley Train Station, or back on campus at 5:30pm.
- Thursday-Friday, June 6-7, Overnight in the Sierra Nevada at the Clair Tappan Lodge near Donner Pass (a rustic Sierra Club lodge). Driver/chaperones will be needed - more details coming soon.
It was so great to see all the smiling faces of Strawberry Creek that we have missed so much over the past two weeks. We started the morning by sharing something that we were grateful for over break.
Our math class today was transformed into a Quiz Show (cue lights and game show music)! Students worked together in partners to answer questions that covered a variety of topics-- conversions, measurements, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.
During writer's workshop we ventured into journal writing. After reflecting back on their experiences during winter break, students used their writer's books to write their first journal entry. We brainstormed things that could be included in a journal entry-- observations, the date, feelings, people, and other details to describe an event.
We started our new read aloud at the end of the day, a book by Scott O'dell called "Streams to the River, River to the Sea". This will go alongside our next cultural studies unit of study, Lewis and Clark and Westward Expansion.
