Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Library time....students are excellent at listening and participating during the story time.

DEAR time -- students had an opportunity to read their new books, work on homework or study their social studies/vocabulary words.

Math -- more work with division.  As a quality control measure, I wanted to collect today’s homework and an amazing six people did NOT have the homework done completely.  So some people may have some extra homework to work on tonight.

Social Studies -- BIG TEST TOMORROW.
More talk about tomorrow’s test, the Bill of Rights and reviewing the checks and balances.  
For studying:
http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/2010/10/bill-of-rights-and-us-constitution.html
I added the prezi links and brainpop suggestions....
Also students were reminded to know about Eminent Domain....it should be added to the 5th Amendment.  

Language Arts -
We reviewed the 5 vocabulary words and the PB pages.
We reviewed the three grammar lessons for the week:
1.  action verbs,  2.  specific verbs and 3. Direct Objects
We reviewed how to assess which is the proper definition to use when you read a dictionary definition and it has more than one definition.

We also had a great talk about records since Nicki brought in some actual records. The kids were pretty amazed and asked some great questions about records.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week

Math:
Page 100   11-18 all due Wednesday  *use both multiplication method and standard division when you answer each question; therefore the 8 problems will seem like 16 of them.   SIX PEOPLE STILL OWE ME THIS!!
Page 103-104  1-14 all due Thursday
Page 106-107 1-14 all due Friday **test on Friday**

Free-Write due Friday
Let me tell you about my best friend..........
This free write always makes me think about Courtship of Eddie’s Father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGu0m08Etm8

Language Arts:
Grammar due Thursday
P.B. 93, 94 and 95

Comprehension all due Friday
Read 160-176 by Friday
Answer any FOUR questions on page 176 due Friday
P.B. 84 and 85 due Friday

Writing “rough draft due on Friday”
Let me tell you about a time that I gave it all it got.....
*mostly non-fiction
*about one full page
*This really is similar to a free write, we are going to use this braindump/rough draft to make a stylized final draft next week.