Can You Hear the Music??

Are you learning the words to our school song? During our last flag raising, our principal challenged everyone to learn the words to the song we dismiss to every afternoon. It was written by the first music teacher at Chets Creek, Mr. Joe Bernat. Can you meet the challenge?

Here are the lyrics:

The Chets Creek School Song

We love our school caled Chets Creek,

Where we are free to dream.

Our teachers, they will guide us,

and help us to achieve.

With values we can live by–

the heights that we shall seek…

We’ll prepare for our future

at our school we call Chets Creek.

Chets Creek!

Counting Patterns

The recent student sheets from our Math Investigation Unit, Building on Numbers You Know, that we have been working on in class are designed to stimulate thinking about counting patterns. Often, students fall back on methods of solving these questions that are far from efficient. For example, a student might simply list all of the multiples of 25 in order to get to 300 and then state, after counting the written numbers, that it takes 12 people counting by 25 to get to 300. However, many students quickly latch onto the idea that it is much easier just to figure out how many 25s are in 100 and then triple the amount to get to 300.

On the "What's in Between" page, students have to sort through a multitude of important concepts in order to find the answers to these puzzles. See if you can find the puzzle with answers that are not quite correct.

Presidential Address to School Children

Presidential Address to School Children

The president will deliver a message to school children on Tuesday, September 8th at noon. This will broadcast on C-Span.
Sometime on Monday, Labor Day, the videotaped message will be uploaded to the following link for your viewing.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources/
A letter was sent home on Friday, for families wishing to “opt out” of the viewing for their children. Please go ahead and complete the form if you would like to opt out as we may watch the address at a future date.