Cerrito Creek

I spent the morning observing at Redwood DaySchool to borrow good ideas about literacy, and call me a systems geek, but I loved this teacher's way of keeping pencils sharp and sharpeners intact. It's the little stuff in life...

The same teacher uses bookmarks to keep track of what students read each year. Love it.

Homework:
Read for 30 minutes (independent book of your choice or get ahead on your lit circle assignment)
Fill out a Book Talk sheet and either bring in or choose a book from our library to refresh our "Students Recommend" book shelf in the library.

5th grade math homework can be downloaded on yesterday's blog.
Here's the POW.

Blue Group:  Today we reviewed our work with multiplication and division to prepare activities for Math Night.  We then looked at 90º (right) angles we made yesterday with polygon shapes and determined the degree measure of angles joined to form right angles.  For example, three 30º angles together, two 45º angles, 30º and 60º etc.  Protractors were introduced to check the angle measures of the polygon shapes.
Homework:  Monday's assignment is due tomorrow.

Fourth grade math
Purple group:  After our weekly 5-minute multiplication activity, we talked about right, obtuse, and acute angles. We also looked at how angles work--that they don't depend on arm length, that reflex angles are bigger than even a straight line, and that the angles in polygons areinside the shape.Students put together different polygon shapes to make right angles, and shared them on the Smart Board.

Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:  Finish pages 159-160 only in the JUMP packet