Christopher, Volume 27: March 9, 2015

"Mr. Mike, will you be my twin?" said Anthony.
With a mile-wide smile, Mr. Mike exclaimed "What do you think?"
(We've been adding dialogue to our weather myths to bring our characters to life!)

Spirit week, pumpkin rotting, ballroom-dancing, strategies to solve all types of addition and subtraction word problems, authentic myths where we explain elements of weather, researching geographical landmarks of our cities, related problem sets (equations), learning through playing games like Close to 1,000, birthday cake lollipops, and fabulous book shares basically sums up our week.

Next week, we have author David Schwartz coming! He wrote "Rotten Pumpkin" and "How Many is a Million?" We are excited to have him! There should be opportunities to purchase books he has written, so they can be autographed. It really is something special to meet and interact with an author of a book you love! I hope you laugh with me as you view this week's pictures!

Lastly, April Book Share guidelines are posted on the blog. Please read it carefully. We have accounted for March break!

Owl:
Christopher

Homework:
Monday: 2-4 Cursive Writing pages; In our assembly today, David Schwartz talked about the things he wondered about when he was young like "How many blades of grass in a baseball field?" or "How may grains of sand on a beach?" or "How many hairs on your head?" Please write a list of wonders that deals with numbers. Please choose your favorite one and explain how you might go about finding your answer. You don't actually have to find the answer! Just explain! Bring it in to share for community meeting.
Tuesday: Math activity Commas
Wednesday: IXL Grade 4 A.1Place values A.2Convert between place values
Thursday:

Sometimes math is like getting stuck in our shoes. 

 Adding soil (in our pajamas), so our pumpkin rots away!

 It's weather myth time! Independent, peer, and teacher conferencing going on!

 Mr. Mike's group playing Close to 100 and arguing over different strategies and points of view for how 1,000 is used in real-life.

 We worked hard on our March book sharing posters!

 Twin day turned quickly into triplet day!

 Reading up on author David Schwartz and sharing characters during community meeting.

 Some real characters!

 It's on! Math word problems need team work for sure!