Cerrito Creek

Kate will teach a series of five classes in upcoming weeks on social skills. Today, they created the cover for a booklet called Social Rules in which they will elaborate their thinking and learning.

Artists worked with Julianne today on painting skills, basing their efforts on local painter Richard Diebenkorn's work.

Homework
Read for 30 minutes
Spelling practice

Math:

Our warm up in 4th grade math was a Quick Image of 30 dots, which were seen as 5 x 6, 6 x 5, and 2 x 15, among other ways.  Young mathematicians practiced their multiplication with some multiple choice questions, and played more math games to strengthen their fluency with multiplication facts.  Several students acted out and discussed the Handshake problem, and shared patterns they noticed.

4th grade math homework:  Create multiplication cards (Blank Math Cards) and practice multiplication facts you are working on, reading the instructions and documenting them on the Homework Handout (due tomorrow).
Optional Problem of the Week:  Three Light Switches (due Tues., Oct. 11).

Fifth graders learned to multiply to divide today. In other words, we talked about how just as subtraction is the opposite of addition, division is the multiplication. We then used "multiple towers" to show the multiples of a given number until we arrived at another number. Students took notes in their math notebooks, so any questions about tonight's homework can hopefully be answered by a glance at their notes. 

This week's packet (includes homework and classwork)

This week's POW (to be worked on in class)