Thursday, September 23, 2010

Day three of my Smartboard on a mini vacation....no response devices and no Smartboard.  It hurts me having to teach old school style.  Plus the computer and the technology in the room continues to act unstable. 

Today we worked for 75 minutes on our Theme 1 projects.  Once again kids did an amazing job staying on task and challenging themselves.    
Here is a great example of what one pair of students have done so far:
http://prezi.com/d1eblujymi0_/natures-fury/
What is really amazing about this, is they completely self taught themselves how to use this software.  They watched the video tutorials and then went off and running.

Math:

Exponents

The actual notes that we took in class

Students are to do page 66-67 1-30 all.  They have 25 minutes to work on today’s homework.
We also watched the Brainpop on exponents.

Social Studies --
We finished discussing compromise, the debate over enslaved people, Federalists/Antifederalists and Amendments.  
We also a short conversation about Bath, England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Somerset
Must read pages 163 through 174 by Wednesday the 29th.

Rotation:
Mrs. Cargo’s Class
Mrs. Wilmott’s Class --
Check her website on science for final confirmation, however I believe it to be page 156 and 157 (lessons #1); all of page 164 and 5 vocabulary cards from lesson 2

I am attending an all day technology conference at the District Office tomorrow.   So Mr. Cross my former protege, tutor and aspiring 5th grade teacher himself, will be manning the fort tomorrow for room C-5.  Please make sure students bring any neccessary materials for their theme 1 project since they will once again be given 60+ minutes to work on them.  

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework due on Friday:

• Math:  Page 66-67 1-30 all due Friday
• Free Writes (a 2 free-write week): 

The ultimate superhero would……" due Friday

• Grammar packet – due Friday
• Theme 1 project – bring needed supplies