Cerrito Creek

Morning message: how many even-numbered red cards are there in a standard deck of cards?

Students demonstrated the "fish bowl" in which they discuss chapters from a book. Each student brings a question for discussion while another group looks on. After the group is finished, each student turns around, gives a verbal self reflection to an onlooker, then receives formal feedback.

We pickled this afternoon. These two fake smilers were chopping Asian pears. You will enjoy the fruits of their labors at our Thanksgiving feast in mid November.W

Our sourdough starter was finally ready to make bread this afternoon. Our room has taken on a delicious, bready smell as the dough ferments.

Pickled daikon.

Homework:
Study spelling words
Read chapters 15 and 16 of I.O.B.D. and bring in one question for tomorrow's fish bowl
Math:
Fifth math packet

Fourth graders worked in two half-groups today, looking at the shape of data, by organizing it and finding landmarks like the maximum, minimum, range, and mode. Students shared the graphs they brought from home, and talked about how graphs are used to answer questions and make decisions. The blue group with Jeff and Stephen made line plots of the number of family members in students' families, and discussed how to find the median.  The purple group with Sima made tally charts of the raisin data from Monday.  Then they started working on the question: What is the difference in height between fourth graders and first graders? Amalia pointed out that we would need to measure the height of many fourth graders and first graders, since there is such a big range in heights in one grade.  Students measured their own heights in inches, and then we visited the Blackberry Creek class and measured the heights of first graders there.

4th grade Blue group (Jeff & Stephen) homework
Option 1: Unit 2, page 1
Option 2: Unit 2, page 2
Due tomorrow.

4th grade Purple group (Sima) homework
Option 1: Unit 2, page 3
Option 2: Word problem handout
Due tomorrow.