Music Rehearsal and Last Buddy Time

• Musical performance:  The class will be performing music this Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m. at our end-of-year school assembly, and you are invited.  
• No extended day this Friday, so please pick up your student between 2:15-2:30 p.m.
• Portfolio Binders available for pick up at TBS next Thursday.

Paper Bags Coming Home Today
The students cleaned out their files and storage cubby.  While student selected work and teacher selected work are coming home later in the portfolio binder, there are some gems in the the bags to sort out:  Writer's books, science activities . . .  

Schedule Tomorrow: Our day tomorrow includes sharing our appreciation poems, watching The (super cool) Gold Rush, the All School Assembly, a student movie and other short performances, and culminating with a party after lunch. 

Music Rehearsal

 

Buddies - Popcorn, movie and play time!

 Strawberry & Laurel Buddies!

Reminders:

• Musical performance:  The class will be performing music this Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m. at our end-of-year school assembly, and you are invited.  
• Paper bags:  Please remind your student to bring in a paper grocery bag to collect their work.  School work not in the academic portfolio will begin coming home tomorrow.  You may pick up their portfolios after Wednesday, June 20.
• No extended day this Friday, so please pick up your student between 2:15-2:30 p.m.

Homework:

Fourth grade math

Practice multiplication facts for 10 minutes per day

Final Dream House work is due tomorrow.  Part 2 of the Dream House Project was due today, however some students have more to do to complete their project.

(download here, download more graph paper here)

• Add up the area of all the rooms and halls to find the total area of your house.
• Add up the sides of the house to find the perimeter of your house.
• Use the “Budget Update” information to figure out the total cost of your house, and how much money you have leftover.
• Complete paragraphs 2 and 3, rest of packet, and draft of floor plan. 

Final 5^th Grade Math Homework - looks like a lot, but it's not so bad...

Assigned 6/13/12, due tomorrow

Write me a 1-2 page, typed or neatly handwritten letter about your year in math. Here’s a reminder of what we studied this year:

Place Value: staircase, Marcy Cook Smart Board activities, etc.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division: algorithm and other strategies

Geometry: shape names, volume, perimeter, area, angles, etc.

Charts, Graphs, “Growth Patterns”

Word problems (i.e. “problems of the week”)

Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (Show Me 1/2)

Probability (PIG)

Mental math, mental math, and more mental math

We did homework every night, took notes, participated in mini-lessons, did worksheets, worked with partners, worked alone, raised our hands, came to the Smart Board, took tests, and much more.

Tell me what you liked and didn’t like, what was hardest and easiest, and what goals you have for next year. I recommend that you cross things off this sheet after you write about them, so you can make sure you got to more than just one or two.

Science experiments

Reminders:

• Musical performance:  The class will be performing music this Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m. at our end-of-year school assembly, and you are invited.  
• Paper bags:  Please remind your student to bring in a paper grocery bag to collect their work.  You may pick up their portfolios after Wednesday, June 20.
• No extended day this Friday, so please pick up your student between 2:15-2:30 p.m.

Homework:

Science experiments, due tomorrow

Most students finished their writing up their lab reports in class, but a few students need to finish writing them.  You can download a sheet here, and a sample experiment here. Details below.

Fourth grade math

Practice multiplication facts for 10 minutes per day

Part 2 of the Dream House Project, due Wednesday,  June 13 

(download here, download more graph paper here)

• Add up the area of all the rooms and halls to find the total area of your house.
• Add up the sides of the house to find the perimeter of your house.
• Use the “Budget Update” information to figure out the total cost of your house, and how much money you have leftover.
• Complete paragraphs 2 and 3, rest of packet, and draft of floor plan. 

Science experiments

Students practiced scientific inquiry by observing worms last week and coming up with questions and hypotheses about them.  After carefully planning their experiments, today students conducted the experiments and wrote up their observations, data results, and conclusions.  Many students made quantitative observations and made graphs of their data.  Tomorrow we will complete the steps of the scientific method, when students give a 2 minute presentation with their partner to communicate to classmates their experiment, results, and conclusions.

See some photos below of the varied experiments students tried!

Reminders:

• Musical performance:  The class will be performing music this Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m. at our end-of-year school assembly, and you are invited.  Please help your student remember to bring in any musical instruments students made in the Dresher music project, to stay at school all week.
• Paper bags:  Please remind your student to bring in a paper grocery bag to collect their work.  As we wind down the school year, we will clean up the classroom, since Steve & Kate's summer camp moves in Saturday, June 16.  Teachers will be looking at student work while writing progress reports, but you may pick up their portfolios and work after Wednesday, June 20.
• No extended day this Friday, so please pick up your student between 2:15-2:30 p.m.

Homework:
Fourth grade math

Practice multiplication facts for 10 minutes per day
Part 2 of the Dream House Project, due Wednesday,  June 13 
(download here, download more graph paper here)

• Add up the area of all the rooms and halls to find the total area of your house.
• Add up the sides of the house to find the perimeter of your house.
• Use the “Budget Update” information to figure out the total cost of your house, and how much money you have leftover.
• Complete paragraphs 2 and 3, rest of packet, and draft of floor plan.

Field Trip Thanks!

Reminders:

• Musical performance:  The class will be performing music on Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m. at our end-of-year school assembly, and you are invited.  Please help your student remember to bring in any musical instruments students made in the Dresher music project on Monday, to stay at school all week.
• Paper bags:  Please remind your student to bring in a paper grocery bag to collect their work.  As we wind down the school year, we will clean up the classroom, since Steve & Kate's summer camp moves in Saturday, June 16.  Teachers will be looking at student work while writing progress reports, but you may pick up their portfolios and work after Wednesday, June 20.

Homework:
Fourth grade math, due Wednesday,  June 13
Part 2 of the Dream House Project (download here, download more graph paper here)

• Add up the area of all the rooms and halls to find the total area of your house.
• Add up the sides of the house to find the perimeter of your house.
• Use the “Budget Update” information to figure out the total cost of your house, and how much money you have leftover.
• Complete paragraphs 2 and 3, rest of packet, and draft of floor plan.

Sutter's Fort & the State Capitol:  We had a great (hotter than we're used to) trip to Sacramento yesterday.  Thank yous go to our fearless driver/chaperones:  Thomas, Sophie, Grégoire, Beth, Don & Kate.  A special thanks to Charlotte's dad, Tom for meeting us at the Capitol and getting us into the Governor's office for a behind-the-scenes tour.  Jerry Brown happened not to be in, but we learned about an even more important member of the Governor's team named Sutter.  Nope, not John Augustus Sutter of Sutter's Fort, but the Governor's corgy.

 Sutter's Fort within the urban setting of Sacramento.

The regular tour of the Capitol included a focus on secret "signatures" left behind by the artisans in the rebuilding process.  Some are pictured in the slide show.
Slide show of our field trip.