Cerrito Creek

Today, I was able to observe literature instruction in both Strawberry Creek and sixth grade Wildcat Creek. Besides observing the great chops of master teachers Jeff and Norman, I got some nice ideas for displays and resources. Our library needs a board like this. 

Strawberry Creek talks poetry.

Literature circles convened for the first time this morning. Here, an illustrator shows his fabulous work.

The discussion director wears a special crown and is in charge of keeping group members on track, creating discussion questions, acquiring a power object, etc. 

Homework

Fifth graders learned how to name angles this morning and how to identify regular and irregular polygons (regular means that all the sides are the same length). The learned the difference between a vertex and an angle. Download homework on Monday's blog. 


Blue Group:  The blue group practiced drawing polygons, naming them, identifying properties, such as, parallel sides, concave and convex (non-concave) angles, and related terminology.  Students are sorting polygons by properties and learning how to determine what are "regular" polygons.
Homework for 4th Grade Blue Group: Polygons


Fourth grade math
Purple group:  We did another 5 minute multiplication fact practice this morning, then worked on geometry. Today's questions were:  What makes lines parallel?  What makes polygons quadrilaterals? Students discovered that lines must be straight and never intersect to be parallel.Quadrilaterals are polygons with four straight sides.

Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group:  Please complete pages 156 through problem 2 of page 159 in the JUMP packet. Do NOT finish the packet!