Thursday, September 16, 2010

    The big news today…no more gum for the next month. We had someone put gum in the recycle bin earlier this week??? Now today I discovered in front of the class a piece of gum on the ground in front of our class. Since we are the only class allowed to chew gum during tests, we have lost the privilege for the next month.

    Today – we started the day with DEAR time again. Many students took their first independent AR tests. Some chose to use this time to study for the science test.

    Afterwards I showed them how to get to the AR book finder.

http://www.arbookfind.com/usertype.aspx

This can be found in my delicious.com/iamron under AR

    I also taught a lesson regarding how to use Amazon to help you find a book. We looked at "customers also bought, " "listamania," and how to review the customer write ups.

    We reviewed the practice book lessons for the week. So we reviewed again correct plural nouns and specific descriptive nouns.

    Before recess we reviewed this week's strategy of classifying and grouping non-fiction information.

    We reviewed the distributive property (aka decomposing of #'s) and as a class we worked and showed 4 examples from tonight's homework.

    We then had our class photos which took a period of time. The students did a wonderful job of not getting hurt or being too much of a distraction while we had to wait for everyone to complete their photo.

    Prior to lunch students were able to watch math brainpops, work on our new math website or work 20+ minutes on tonight's math homework.

    Rotations today….Cargo and then science w/ Wilmott. Science does have homework tonight due tomorrow.

    Finally tomorrow we are going to spend some significant time celebrating national Constitution Day. So make sure to ask your son/daughter on Friday about our Federal Government and our Bill of Rights.

Homework for the week:

Math:

Due Friday pages 57-58 5-27 **11 of the multiplication problems must be decomposed.

Free-Write due Friday – this week a true free-write; write about whatever you want

Science due Friday (softback page 158/160) vocabulary notecards –sun,star, fusion and the non-fiction handout

Social Studies due Wednesday 9/22 read pages 155-162

Due
Friday -- Language Arts Comprehension:

Read 78-100 / On page 100 – you choose 3 questions and answer them in complete sentences / P.B. 39/40

Kind regards,

Ron