Cerrito Creek

Fifth graders played math games this morning to shore up various skills.

"What are the factors of 33?"

Talent Friday featured a beautiful song about the Chinese New year.

Cerrito students appreciate each other at the end of each Friday. Today's were our best yet. These guys are really starting to come together as a community.

Fourth grade math
Students met all together today to talk about polygons--what makes a polygon a polygon, and how can we identify shapes that are not polygons? They came up with these ideas:

• Polygons have straight sides, no curves.
• Polygons are closed figures, no gaps or lines sticking out.
• Polygons have no intersecting lines.

We played Guess My Rule using a variety of small plastic polygons called "Power Polygons," then students created new polygons with different rules by putting together Power Polygons and tracing them.

No homework this weekend.

Fifth grade math

Today was a game smorgasbord. Students chose from a variety of games that helped them practice multiplication, factoring, adding fractions, mixed number fractions, etc.