Dream Houses and Play

4th Grade Math:  Students are working on their  Dream House Project this week.  Tonight's goal is to draw out the 4 required rooms and record the dimensions and cost on the budget update sheet.  They may move onto planning the special room, but should not complete "Parts 1, 2 or 3" in the packet just yet.  We will introduce those tomorrow.

Practice & Memorize lines for the Oregon Trail Play:  Here is a link to the script you can use if needed to print another one.  Today we set the blocking (stage work) for many of the scenes.

Props:  The students are encouraged to bring in props they will need ASAP.  Costumes can come together a little later.

Home on the Range and Wayfaring Stranger: Here are the lyrics to Home on the Range and Wayfaring Stranger. We'll be practicing these songs in class and during music throughout the next couple of weeks, but singing performances are always better with more practice! Please encourage your student to practice over the weekend! Below are YouTube links to the songs in case it is easier to sing to with music and another voice!

Wayfaring Stranger

Home on the Range

Overnight Chaperones:  Please send in your form (2nd page) and $35 payment. Thanks.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, May 30, Sneak Peak Day (5th graders visit Wildcat, 3rd visit Strawberry with our 4th)

June 6-7, Sierra Overnight: packing list and chaperone information
June 12: Potluck & Performance of Learning, 6:00-8:30

Acting, Singing, Creating, Oh My!

Oregon Trail Play:  Each Strawberry student is bringing home a script today.  It is the only one we will print for them (lots of paper).  Here is a link to the script you can use if needed to print another one.

Home on the Range and Wayfaring Stranger: Students are bringing home lyrics to Home on the Range and Wayfaring Stranger. We'll be practicing these songs in class and during music throughout the next couple of weeks, but singing performances are always better with more practice! Please encourage your student to practice over the weekend! Below are YouTube links to the songs in case it is easier to sing to with music and another voice!

Wayfaring Stranger

Home on the Range

Upcoming Events:

Monday, May 27th: No School-- Memorial Day

June 6-7, Sierra Overnight

June 12: Potluck & Performance of Learning, 6:00-8:30

Each Strawberry student received a very official looking script this morning for them to begin rehearsing on their own. They went through and highlighted their lines, as we'll begin rehearsing next week! There is so much excitement around the acting, prop making, and costume designing! We had a special visit from Kim and Zaq this afternoon to help the students rehearse the songs that they will be including into the performance! We've got some work to do in the voice projection, but things are sounding good so far! 

Play, Painting, and Berkeley Rep!

Homework:

• 4th Grade Math: Math facts sheet(s)
• 5th Grade Math: Math packet
• Journal Final drafts

Reminder: We are still using permanent paints for our keepsake boxes, so dress accordingly! 

Upcoming Events:

Monday, May 27th: No School-- Memorial Day

June 6-7, Sierra Overnight

June 12: Potluck & Performance of Learning, 6:00-8:30

This afternoon we finished our read through of our Oregon Trail script. We're all excited to get this play up and running and to begin practicing! 

We had a special acting workshop from the Berkeley Repertory Theatre workshop.  Reggie taught Strawberry Creek the essential acting tools. Through a series of exercises, students practiced creating scenes that conveyed particular relationships, places, and conflict.   

Photos of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre workshop:

You're at a beach!

Mother-daughter scenario!

Berkeley Repertory Theatre workshop - Elements of acting.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre workshop - Partners interpreted and acted out a series of lines.

We finished our day with our Oregon Trail projects: journal writing, knitting, box painting, and prop making!

Homework
4th Grade math:  Finish Gallon Man worksheet problems or complete Sharing 60 and Decimal homework.
5th grade math:  packet
No other written assignments.
Oregon Trail Play:  Choose a name for your character in the play.

 $ - Please remember to bring in any Walk-a-thon donations!


Upcoming Events
Tomorrow we have a special visit from The Berkeley Repertory Theater (12:45-1:45) to work on character development in acting.

Monday, May 27th: No School-- Memorial Day

June 6-7, Sierra Overnight

June 12: Potluck & Performance of Learning, 6:00-8:30

Today was full of measurement in math. Some students measured small items such as buttons, dimes, and keys, while others worked on measuring different traits (hand span, head circumference, how tall they could reach). We'll continue to focus on different units of measurement throughout the week. 

It was an exciting day in Strawberry Creek! We worked on painting our keepsake boxes and finally casted our Oregon Trail play! After casting different characters, we did a read aloud of the rough draft of the script. While there are still edits to be made, it is playing out to be a very entertaining play!

Gallon Man and Painting Boxes

Homework
4th Grade math:  Continue on Gallon Man worksheet problems from class.
5th grade math:  packet
No other written assignments.
Reading:  Finish Bound for Oregon

 $ - Please remember to bring in any Walk-a-thon donations!

Upcoming Events

This Friday, May 17, Walk-a-thon!

Monday, May 27th: No School-- Memorial Day

June 6-7, Sierra Overnight

June 12: Potluck & Performance of Learning, 6:00-8:30

Math Club: In math club, which was all girls today, many students engaged in a series of puzzles using 0-9 number tiles, while others solved algebraic and computational problems involving air travel.  A few students gave the math game 24 a try. Final math club of the year will be on June 5, in two weeks.

In 4th Grade Math today the students learned about Gallon Man and measured in cups, pints, quarts, gallons and eventually teaspoons and Tablespoons.

Painting the keepsake boxes.

Knitting, script writing and prop making in the background.