Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Division and Estimating

 We've begun estimating with division. To help us get started, we are using our multiples. Students worked together to generate multiples for our basic facts. We quickly found that this was very helpful to our division estimating!

Hour of Code

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Monday, November 30, 2015

Holiday Mall

Dear Parents,

We are happy to announce that Mrs. Foley, Ms. DiPesa and Mrs. Crable’s students will be hosting the Dale Street Holiday Mall this year. This event is designed to give students insight into holiday shopping and spending. Our classrooms will be working together to create a mall simulation for the rest of the Dale Street students to come “shop” at. Students will practice important business ideas such as supply & demand, budgeting, sales tax, and balancing their own checkbooks. They will be challenged to budget their money and do their best to sell their products. In addition to the stores, we will have a “Food Court” that consists of a bake sale. All proceeds for the bake sale will go to the Medfield Home Committee. 

The Dale Street Holiday Mall will be open for business on Tuesday, December 15from 9:00-11:15. We ask that you continue to discuss this with your child to gain insight into what he or she is learning and creating. Please support our event by donating baked goods for our “Food Court.” All baked goods should be individually wrapped or packaged together at a $1 value and nut-free. We thank you in advance for your time and support from home.



Sincerely,

 Mrs. Foley, Ms. DiPesa & Mrs. Crable​


Please see the link below for pictures of previous holiday malls! 

Link to Mrs. Foley's website

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Snack Tectonics

link from today

Divergent Plate Boundary- You've made a rift or crack in the ocean floor. Magma oozes up from below and makes new ocean floor and creates underwater mountain ranges.


Transform Plate Boundary- Plates move past each other and get stuck on each other. It creates waves of vibrations through the earth's interior. These vibrations create earthquakes!


Oceanic Collision- One plate is sliding under the other.  The bottom plate starts to melt from the heat and pressure. It becomes new magma that floats up between two plates. This creates mountains and sometimes volcanoes.


Continent Collision- Two continental plates collide cause mountain ranges and volcanoes. An example of this is the Himalayas.