Mission Dolores Trip Tomorrow

Mission Dolores: We will depart by 8:45 am, so please be on time.  We plan to be back by 2:30pm. Students will need:

• Snack
• Lunch
• Day pack
• Jacket
• Good walking shoes!

Home Assignments:

1. 

5th Grade Math: 

4th Grade Math: No homework tonight

2. Reading survey:  Students may be bringing home a reading survey to complete that was started in class.

2.  Fort Ross COSTUME:  Due November 6!

3.   Reading (20 min. every night)– Students may read from their assigned Book Group books.

FORT ROSS PREPARATION

• Packing List
• Reminders (important dates and events leading up to Nov. 11)
• Letter samples:  The letter to your child is due to me by November 6.  Remember this is a special surprise for the kids to receive on our trip.  The letter can be as creative as you like.  Scrolls, parchment paper, wax seal, quill pen writing, written on wood, leather, tree bark,  a clam shell or bone . . .
• Costume Reminder and links to Fort Ross website information

Other Upcoming Events:

Thursday, October 31, Halloween Parade, 8:45: Students should come dressed in costume for the parade.  Please no masks or violence represented in the costume.  

November 1 & 4:  Conferences/No School

Wednesday, November 6:  Dress Rehearsal for FORT ROSS.  Students will present about their characters in costume.  This is the same day the secret letter is due.  Your child will be bringing home an assignment to help you get to know their character.

Friday, November 8:  Sleeping bags, pads and pillows due to be packed in cars.

November 11-12 (Monday-Tuesday), Fort Ross trip.  Arrive at TBS by 7am on November 11 for our early departure!!!

Just 2 Weeks until Fort Ross!

Home Assignments:

1. 

5th Grade Math: Packet - see Cerrito Creek's blog

4th Grade Math: Packet.  Today, math students worked with partners to find the multiplication arrays (factor pairs) of groups of numbers.  We also reviewed the 7s.

2.  Fort Ross COSTUME:  Due November 6!

3.   Reading (20 min. every night)– Students may read their assigned Book Group books.

4.  Classwork to complete by Thursday:

• Reading Goal for Book Group:  This includes the connections note taking sheet, with 5 connections made to the book.

• Fort Ross Journal:  (Bring journal to school each day too.)  Students are writing from a prompt started in class.

• California Map:  Some students brought home their California Map last Friday to finish the details of labeling, drawing a compass rose, and including the border lines around the state.  This link has the information they need.

Upcoming Events:

Friday, October 25, Mission Dolores Field Trip:  This is a BART and walking trip to the Mission.  

Thursday, October 31, Halloween Parade, 8:45: Students should come dressed in costume for the parade.  Please no masks or violence represented in the costume.  

November 1 & 4:  Conferences/No School

Wednesday, November 6:  Dress Rehearsal for FORT ROSS.  Students will present about their characters in costume.  This is the same day the secret letter is due.  Your child will be bringing home an assignment to help you get to know their character.

Friday, November 8:  Sleeping bags, pads and pillows due to be packed in cars.

November 11-12 (Monday-Tuesday), Fort Ross trip.

 Making Arrays - 4th grade math

 Acting out situations related to the Missions

Mission Dolores is on for Friday!

Home Assignments:

1. 

5th Grade Math: Packet - see Cerrito Creek's blog

4th Grade Math: Packet and 7s page:  In class today the students experienced a teaching process from Making Math Real known as the 9 Lines.  This is a visual imaging strategy to learn the times tables one fact family (or house) at a time.  Today the class participated in a whole group experience with this method to learn the 7s, however this process will normally be used to target fact groups students are needing support with, and done in smaller groupings.  The goal today was to familiarize all of the students with this unusual and highly specific method for learning multiplication facts.  

2.   Reading (20 min. every night)– Students may read their assigned Book Group books.

3.  Classwork going home to complete by Thursday:

• Fort Ross Journal:  (Bring journal to school each day too.)  Students are writing from a prompt started in class.

• California Map:  Some students brought home their California Map last Friday to finish the details of labeling, drawing a compass rose, and including the border lines around the state.  This link has the information they need.

• Fort Ross Historical Questions:  A student or two needed the historical questions again.  These are all of the questions they have worked on so far, so you will need to compare to what they do and do not have.

Reminder:
Friday, October 25, Mission Dolores Field Trip:  This is a BART and walking trip to the Mission.  

Today in Strawberry:  In preparation for our upcoming trip to MIssion Dolores the students watched a short video about the history of the Mission system in California and discussed the probable motivations of the Padres and Native Americans who chose to join in the beginning.  Our BIG ideas today included:  The Mission was more than a church, it was a self sufficient community.  The intentions of the Padres were focused on "saving the souls" of the California Indians.  The high death rate was not an intended outcome.  California Indians had many reasons for joining the missions, or simply were forced to by soldiers.  It is a complicated time in history, as are most.  Tomorrow we will role play scenarios to delve into the various perspectives of the different roles people played at the missions.

Home Assignments:
1. 

5th Grade Math: Packet

4th Grade Math: Complete at least 2 more Array Photo pages.  

2.   Reading (20 min. every night)– Students may read their assigned Book Group books.

Reminder:
Friday, October 25, Mission Dolores Field Trip:  This is a BART and walking trip to the Mission.  Cross our fingers the BART strike will be over.

California Map:  Some students brought home their California Map last Friday to finish the details of labeling, drawing a compass rose, and including the border lines around the state.  This link has the information they need.

Conference Sign Up information coming home today with the students in the Pick a Party Packet!

Reminder:
Friday, October 25, Mission Dolores Field Trip:  This is a BART and walking trip to the Mission.

California Map:  Some students are bringing home their California Map to finish the last details of labeling, drawing a compass rose, and including the border lines around the state.  This link has the information they need.

Fort Ross Historical Questions:  A student or two needed the historical questions again.  These are all of the questions they have worked on so far.

Today in Strawberry: Choice time included carpentry projects.  Thank you to all who donated scrap wood.  The kids love it!