Cacioppo Crew 2024-2025 Blog

Our new Kindness and Grit winners! We completed a Halloween and Fall Getting to Know You activity with our first grade buddies! We also learned about other kids in our first grade buddy class. What are you going to be for Halloween? What is your favorite Halloween candy? What do you like to do in the fall? This week we practiced our multiplication strategy to solve our 4th grade goal of 2x2. When we gained confidence, we worked on 5th grade skills that include  multiplying 3x2, 3x3, 3x4, and 4x4. WOW! In LMC, we explored a website to determine if it is sharing real or fake info.  Ask your fourth grader about tree octopuses! Our leader of the week shared her poster and pictures with the class!  

In math, we are working on multiplying 2x2. The kids are learning MANY different ways to solve including the distributive property, partial products, area model, and standard algorithm. On Friday, kids chose which strategy they would like to work on to master the skill of multiplying 2x2. The kids can choose the strategy that works best for them and the one that gives them an accurate answer. These sheets will be coming home on Monday.  Congrats to our new Kindness and Grit Award recipients! In Social Studies, we are learning about renewable and nonrenewable resources on Earth.  We did some research today after reading an article and worked to categorize different resources as renewable or nonrenewable. Our Apex Predator information essay Author's Chair! I am so proud of the kids as they researched, organized information, completed a rough draft, then worked to complete a final published draft for their predator. You will find a rubric coming home with your 4th grader's book t...