Strawberry is Nut-Free:  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: Parts of Rectangles worksheet:  Option 1 or Option 2 (the only difference is the backside)

2. 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

Photo Day: Tuesday, September 24 - Please note that the forms were sent home with the wrong date circled.

Fort Ross:  We are closing in on the number of chaperones needed to make Fort Ross a success. Thank you for all who have expressed an interest so far.  See the summer letter for more details about the responsibilities of chaperones.  At Back to School Night, we will briefly discuss the responsibilities, explain the job/role playing groups, answer any questions about the trip, and hope to fill any last chaperone spots open.  That is also when chaperones will inform us of their interest in job/role playing groups.  One note, adults are not assigned to the same group as their child.

Today in Strawberry Creek - The students began the 2nd phase of a writing project began last week, and are crafting descriptive lines for a poem about their summers.  During Word Study we studied there, their and they're, and practiced applying the correct homophone in different situations.  The students have selected a "just right" chapter book for reading time, and we are holding our first teacher/student reading conferences about their selection.  Lastly, the last part of the day we talked about California Indians, and watched an informative video about the theory of the migration of people across the Bering land bridge during an ice age.  We followed the video with a creation story from the Modoc people of Northern California involving Mt. Shasta and how people came to be.  Using the varying versions of how the first people came to live in North America we shared ideas about how and why stories are part of cultures.  The students noted connections to stories from other parts of the world as well.  Spanish Missions came up in our conversation, and the impact on mostly coastal communities.  We are now on to studying discreet groups of California Indians by first locating the current tribe via websites.  The students made great progress uncovering websites with information about the tribes today.