Cerrito Creek

Homework:
Math: 4th grade do cups, pints, quarts, gallons packet
5th graders write one page on today's activity: what were you supposed to do? What was hard about it? What would you do differently? What strategies did you use to "be lazy."
20 minutes of Wordly Wise
20+ minutes writing and summary on weekly planner.

If you don't have a planner, check out Cerrito's Google Drive account and you can download one there. you could even do it on your computer!


The week ahead will be all about puberty for the students. They are sure to remember the first (or second, in fifth graders' case) time a teacher talked to them about these seemingly private, even forbidden matters. TBS has really done their research and landed on Jennifer Devine, whose punk style and firm yet open and kind approach lends itself to the material. Make sure to open up the lines of communication at home. Your child is sure to have questions about what they learn in school each morning this week. 

We are watching The General, by Buster Keaton, which you can watch for free on YouTube, to study early silent films with the hope of making our own for a year-end performance. We will continue to publish fiction writing for the next edition of the Chanterelle, finish up Holes as a read aloud, read Romeo and Juliet in readers theater, and begin a new round of literature circles, with students reading a variety of fiction and historical fiction novels about different parts of California history. They are each reading about a different ethnic group – Japanese during the internment camps of WWII, Chinese during the Gold Rush, etc. – and the hope is that we will represent a wide band of California's diversity in your year-end performance.  

Jennifer Devine teaches about adolescence. 

Student faces in this shot give you a sense of the range of emotions.

My math mantra above today's math assignment. This was a challenging activity for students as they had to put their mathematical rubber to the road.