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| Fifth graders mingle to the music on Monday mornings, finding their partners for the week based on some teacher-given constraints. |
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| Just a couple a guys having snack. |
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| Sustained Silent Reading remains an essential component of the readers workshop. |
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| Table groups rolled "Haikubes" to create comic and serious haiku poetry. The class voted on their favorites. Poetry=fun. |
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| Place is important to the poet. |
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| Indeed. |
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| Our student council representative gave essential details about the Walkathon this morning. Students will soon be asked to solicit money for the fundraiser. We will have a mini-lesson on how to be a good asker. |
Reading Group homework: By the Great Horned Spoon
ERB practice: 2 pages in packet
Math:
4th Grade Blue Group homework: Practice/review pages for Geometry and Measurement.
Purple group: Today students explored finding the area of parallelograms and triangles using the dimensions base and height. Using geoboards, students experimented with a fixed base length and fixed area, discovering that you can create different parallelograms but they all have the same height. They also found that the height is not the side length of the parallelogram (unless it is a rectangle), but the length of a line from the base perpendicular to the opposite side or vertex. We came up with these formulas:
Area of parallelogram = base x height
Area of triangle = (base x height) / 2
Fourth grade math homework, due tomorrow
Purple group: Standardized test practice
Fifth graders have spent extensive time of late practicing the seemingly simple skill of counting up and down. As Beatles music plays, the students warm up their brains skip counting with a partner. I say seven, you say fourteen. When the music stops, students have often gotten to the twelfth or thirteenth multiple of the number. Today they counted by square numbers, to change it up. They continued their work on starter problems, which have been conceptually quite difficult (perhaps the most difficult concept of the year?), but students are beginning to have aha! moments about their utility. What problem would a shopper do if he wanted 8 lengths of board at $29.99 a piece? Let's hope these kids don't have to pull out their iPhones for that one (unless of course it's to calculate the 8% sales tax!).
5th Math Part 1
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