Photos: Self Portrait Paper Puppets & Decimal Dog

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Puberty Education info. event, Monday, March 10, 7:00-8:00pm
• Conferences, Thursday and Friday, March 13 & 14

Decimal Dog: During 4th grade Math today the students participated in a participatory lesson on decimals called Decimal Dog.  While the students form decimal numbers called out, Decimal Dog stands watch at the decimal point (see photo).  The class helps to place digits in the wrong place before Decimal Dog takes a bite.

 Learning how to place the last digit can be confusing.  Acting out the numbers helped the students become familiar quickly with the place value alignments of tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

While half the class were in charge of the digits forming decimal numbers, the other half recorded the numbers called out on white boards.  Later, students proposed challenge numbers for the digit holders to solve.

Art Class with Julianne:  Here are Strawberry Creek paper self portraits. Students are going to create scenes of how to make friends and invite others to do things.

Have a great weekend!