Cerrito Creek

Can you see the beauty in this? Maybe it's a math teacher thing...

We examined how much of the earth's land and water is actually usable by humans. It's not much, and with what we're doing to it all, it's getting to be even less. 

Volunteers blowing it out of the water. You have to come see our library tomorrow during the feast and how far it has come.

The first issue of the Chanterelle, our very own literary magazine, hit the press today. The editors share a moment of elation.

Homework:
Science: finish summary on notecard
Read for 30 minutes
Practice spelling words

Math: 5th graders finished their 3D models of rectangular prisms, calculating surface area and volume. They worked on their problems of the week, as well, which are due tomorrow.
4th grade Blue Group:  Today we continued to work on making bar graphs and determining the scale to use to represent data on a graph successfully.  Homework page due tomorrow:  Double Bar Graphs
Fourth grade math:
The purple group's question of the day was:  How can we make a survey to find out an amount of something?  Pairs of students worked together to come up with survey questions that would measure the amount of something, and that they could ask of two different groups to compare them.  Students came up with questions like:

• How many different kinds of classes do you take after school or on weekends?
• How many people did you ride to school with you today?
• How many kids under 18 live with you?

Students will be collecting data for these surveys next week, since Cerrito has their feast tomorrow.

Fourth grade math homework:
Purple group should complete Unit 2, pages 15-16, which you can download here.  Calculate mode, median, range, range above median, or range below median to make conclusions. Due Monday, 11/21.