Strawberry is going Nut-Free by Monday, September 16: A student in Strawberry Creek is highly allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. Please see this letter for more details.
Home Assignments:
1.
5th Grade Math: packet due Friday (please see the side link to the Cerrito Creek blog)
4th Grade Math: Crack the Code - due Tuesday.
In 4th Grade math we have been learning routines and practicing math related activities that will be part of our year together. The recent assignment, "What is One," is an exploration into fractions and the concept of "one whole" as it relates to the math we will be exploring this year. The students analyzed their "one" object by breaking it into parts in a web. The total parts created the "whole" for this object that we are now using to build understanding of the purpose of the numerator, denominator and how to make a fraction of an amount, such as 1/3 of 12.
1.
5th Grade Math: packet due Friday (please see the side link to the Cerrito Creek blog)
4th Grade Math: Crack the Code - due Tuesday.
In 4th Grade math we have been learning routines and practicing math related activities that will be part of our year together. The recent assignment, "What is One," is an exploration into fractions and the concept of "one whole" as it relates to the math we will be exploring this year. The students analyzed their "one" object by breaking it into parts in a web. The total parts created the "whole" for this object that we are now using to build understanding of the purpose of the numerator, denominator and how to make a fraction of an amount, such as 1/3 of 12.
2. Magazines & Photos - We will collage over our writer's books in class this week. Students may bring in items to use in their collage. We will also have magazines available in the classroom.
3. Summer Artifact - We are still sharing summer artifacts this week.
3. Summer Artifact - We are still sharing summer artifacts this week.
4. Reading (every night)– Read for at least 20 minutes each night. The students should record the title and pages they read each day in their homework planner in their binder.
Upcoming Dates
K-5 Back to School Night: 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, September 19
Today in Strawberry:
Class Agreements: Student committees took on sorting through the notes from our class agreements group brainstorm and came up with the main points to propose to the class.
Agreement categories today included, how we care for each other, the environment and our classroom.
Ocean science: We kicked off our study of the ocean and kelp forest that will be ongoing this Fall, with a look at earth and its resources. Using an apple to model the earth, we sliced away fractional parts of the apple in accordance with the approximate proportions of resources.
The fractional relationships were also drawn on a paper plate chart.
Upcoming Dates
K-5 Back to School Night: 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, September 19
Today in Strawberry:
