Cerrito Creek

Students received their Ft. Ross packets this morning. They practiced highlighting headings and titles and had to pull out three things they learned. 

Who knew Santa was a poet? More Richard Wilbur today.

This is what collaboration looks like. Students get more intimate each week with the California maps as they plan their quilt square.

Piecing together the quilt square sketches. You can see the state coming together, complete with highways, rivers, county lines, and more.

Homework:

Finish typing your piece for the Chanterelle (most of you emailed yourselves or are already done)
Math
5th Math
Fifth graders played a game of staircase to begin the day, a game in which the teacher rolls a ten-sided die ten times. Students place each digit that is rolled on the staircase in order to get the biggest possible number, smallest possible number, or closest to a number the teacher names. They practice reading their large numbers in front of the class. Then they practiced mental subtraction of large numbers and some division word problems. Their homework is in the packet, downloadable on yesterday's blog (sorry that last night's hw was absent).

Fourth grade math

In both groups, we did a warm up with Quick Images of dots in different arrays.  Students shared math equations and how they saw the dots grouped. One part of the purple group continued work on breaking arrays into smaller parts to solve multiplication word problems.  The other used a computer applet of the Paper Pool game to test systematically different dimensions to figure out rules for which pocket the ball goes in, and how many hits occur, looking for patterns and number relationships.

Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Option 1 (plum): Continue making & practicing multiplication cards from Monday; complete Tickets for the Play, Unit 3, page 6
Option 2 (periwinkle): Round & estimate with 100s and 10s

Blue group:
1. Finish cutting out the multiplication fact cards (pages 1-2, pages 3-6).
2. Label the back of each card with the answer.
3. Practice the cards (use the instructions) to separate them into two piles (fast and slow or don't know).
4. Write a hint on the front of the card for ones you need to practice.
5. Keep the cards in your envelope and place inside your RED folder.