Homework
4th Grade - Quadrilaterals page (Option 1 or Option 2)
5th Grade - Packet
Wordly Wise: Please spend 15-20 minutes working on Wordly Wise this evening.
Biography Reading Homework: Feb. 4 - 13, Please spend your 20 minutes of reading time each night on your biography book, using the sticky notes to mark important events (refer to the YELLOW sheet for what to mark). Coming home with the students are pages to support their reading, linked here as the Biography Packet. This packet contains duplicate versions of sheets being used in class that should be kept in the homework binder. Please note the Biography Project Timeline sheet. This lays out in stages the work in school and at home that will take place.
Reminder: Field trip on Thursday, February 7 to Tilden Park. Students will need to wear shoes to hike in, bring snack and lunch, and a water bottle!
From Sima: Today in Math Club students enjoyed puzzling over how to buy 100 candies with $15 if cotton candy costs $1, candy bars 50 cents, and gumballs 5 cents (clearly an old problem, given the costs!). There were also geometric puzzles carving out equal area, a word puzzle similar to Sudoku, a zigzag puzzle, and some Chinese New Year puzzles, since this Sunday is the start of the Yin Water Snake year. Finally, some students learned a new game which would be easy to play at home--Fantastic Four.
Cultural Studies: Today we watched a movie version of the Lewis & Clark expedition, and compared this version to our read aloud book in class written from the perspective of Scagawea.
Topographic Maps: The students were introduced to topographic maps today (partly to prepare them for the field trip on Thursday). We built sand mountains and drew contour lines to show how the sand mountains might appear on a map. We discussed how to calculate elevation change on the map, use a compass to orient a map and how to approximate mileage. The students began working in teams to follow a topographic map scavenger hunt.
