4th Grade Math: Due Friday - Division/Multiplication. Optional problem solving work: On Balance (progressively challenging problem sets).
5th Grade Math: Due Friday - p. 142 & 143 in packet
Wordly Wise: 20 minutes Weds and Thurs nights (depending on overall homework time)
Reading 20 minutes (don't forget to record your reading in the planner)
Upcoming Events:
Save the Date: May 29, 6:00-8:30pm, Performance of Learning & 5th Grade Tribute in the classroom and Depot.
Field Trips
- Wednesday, May 7 (8:45-3:15) Oakland Museum History Gallery
- Friday, May 23 (8:45-3:00) Sailing on Bay and nautical skills workshop.
Photos from the Field trip
The infamous coy pond.
We began by breaking into small groups for a tour of the Cordell Bank exhibit.
Explaining upwellings.
Studying the animals in the Cordell reef.
Jaws
Discussing the ocean in the theater area.
Plastic sky. A section of the exhibit is dedicated to ocean trash and the affects on ocean life.
Looks like the stuff we find too by the bay.
Baby albatross, fed plastics mistaken for food by parents.
After a break from the tour we went to the science lab.
Squid dissection!
A hands on experience. (Food grade squid)
The syphon is found.
Cutting the mantle.
Pulling out the "guts."
A backpack sherpa.
