Happy Post Turkey Holiday!!
Many of the kids complained that today went by waaay too quick. I think that is great because I like to think we had some serious learning going on.
We had a spirit assembly to kick off our triumphant return. This month’s character attribute is caring.
After the assembly we took our weekly spelling test.
Here is the list of words:
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_01.html
We then kicked off the discussion regarding the new theme, Voices of the Revolution. I gave some background information about the Revolution and Washington’s risky Christmas eve gamble.
The students then had 60 minutes to work on their theme 2 open ended project. Students also could sign up their project presentation. Here is the sign up list if for some reason your child would like to change their time:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dFp2M2FYclNIUHhuck9KU192R1R4Snc&hl=en&authkey=CMPq--gE
Math:
Fractions -- simplifying them.
We reviewed the concept of using the power of one.
Here are the detailed notes for the first five problems that we did:
http://www.box.net/shared/c90febr235
Page 227 1-32 all **must show the power of one, you can NOT just give the final answer;
Students were given 25 minutes to work on their math.
More discussion regarding the American Revolution while we discussed this week’s key vocabulary. Many of the students were paying attention so they were able to complete practice book page 144;
After lunch we watched two amazing movies about education that also uses great use of visual learning to better teach or symbolize a lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
The first one deals with the future of education and where it is at now and why it must change. I personally was interested to see what the students thought about this one.
However we were having much more conversation about the second video about what motivates and drives human beings. We ran out of time before we started discussing why humans care so much about purpose and being self-directed.
As a friendly reminder the jogathon donations are due tomorrow. If your son/daughter lost their form, you can collect the donations and send it in an envelope. Just please make sure to give yrou child’s information and our class information on it. Also checks should be written payable to Dublin Elementary PFC.
I hope everyone had a glorious Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones. I personally had a great time with this year being the first year we hosted everyone at our house. The mash potatoes were a lumpy disaster (I’ve already ordered a hand ricer through Amazon so it won’t happen again) however everything else came out fine.
In case you missed it, it was the one-year anniversary of our friend Mr. Tom; Here are some updates regarding his family:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/25916358/detail.html
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_16693465
Have you ever wondered, why two or three siblings could share the exact same gene pool however be so opposite?
Well NPR did recently as well.
Here is a quick read or a quick listen about why sibling A is so so different than sibling B.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/18/131424595/siblings-share-genes-but-rarely-personalities
Homework for the week:
Comprehension:
Read 260-280 by Thursday
Answer two questions on page 280 by Friday. Only two so make them your masterpiece, complete answers that refer back to the story and completely written.
P.B. 140-141 by Friday
AR test by Friday
Free-Write due on Friday
“This year Santa was on steroids....”
Grammar due by Thursday:
P.B. 149, 150, and 151
Vocabulary Work due by Wednesday:
5 challenge words -- write complete definitions and use them in a sentence
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_01.html
P.B. 139, 144, and 148
Graph work due for Mrs. Cargo’s class due on Thursday.
See her if you do not still have your graph
Math for the week:
227 1-32 all *show the power of ones when simplifying due Tuesday
230-232 1-37 odds due Wednesday
234-235 2-32 evens due Thursday
236-237 1-17 all due Friday must show on a number line
240-241 1-14 all due Tuesday, December 7th
Chapter 10 Version A all due Wednesday, December 8th
Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Happy Post Turkey Holiday!!Many of the kids complained that today went by waaay too quick. I think that is great because I like to think we had some serious learning going on.
We had a spirit assembly to kick off our triumphant return. This month’s character attribute is caring.
After the assembly we took our weekly spelling test.
Here is the list of words:
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_01.html
We then kicked off the discussion regarding the new theme, Voices of the Revolution. I gave some background information about the Revolution and Washington’s risky Christmas eve gamble.
The students then had 60 minutes to work on their theme 2 open ended project. Students also could sign up their project presentation. Here is the sign up list if for some reason your child would like to change their time:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dFp2M2FYclNIUHhuck9KU192R1R4Snc&hl=en&authkey=CMPq--gE
Math:
Fractions -- simplifying them.
We reviewed the concept of using the power of one.
Here are the detailed notes for the first five problems that we did:
http://www.box.net/shared/c90febr235
Page 227 1-32 all **must show the power of one, you can NOT just give the final answer;
Students were given 25 minutes to work on their math.
More discussion regarding the American Revolution while we discussed this week’s key vocabulary. Many of the students were paying attention so they were able to complete practice book page 144;
After lunch we watched two amazing movies about education that also uses great use of visual learning to better teach or symbolize a lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
The first one deals with the future of education and where it is at now and why it must change. I personally was interested to see what the students thought about this one.
However we were having much more conversation about the second video about what motivates and drives human beings. We ran out of time before we started discussing why humans care so much about purpose and being self-directed.
As a friendly reminder the jogathon donations are due tomorrow. If your son/daughter lost their form, you can collect the donations and send it in an envelope. Just please make sure to give yrou child’s information and our class information on it. Also checks should be written payable to Dublin Elementary PFC.
I hope everyone had a glorious Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones. I personally had a great time with this year being the first year we hosted everyone at our house. The mash potatoes were a lumpy disaster (I’ve already ordered a hand ricer through Amazon so it won’t happen again) however everything else came out fine.
In case you missed it, it was the one-year anniversary of our friend Mr. Tom; Here are some updates regarding his family:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/25916358/detail.html
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_16693465
Have you ever wondered, why two or three siblings could share the exact same gene pool however be so opposite?
Well NPR did recently as well.
Here is a quick read or a quick listen about why sibling A is so so different than sibling B.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/18/131424595/siblings-share-genes-but-rarely-personalities
Homework for the week:
Comprehension:
Read 260-280 by Thursday
Answer two questions on page 280 by Friday. Only two so make them your masterpiece, complete answers that refer back to the story and completely written.
P.B. 140-141 by Friday
AR test by Friday
Free-Write due on Friday
“This year Santa was on steroids....”
Grammar due by Thursday:
P.B. 149, 150, and 151
Vocabulary Work due by Wednesday:
5 challenge words -- write complete definitions and use them in a sentence
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_01.html
P.B. 139, 144, and 148
Graph work due for Mrs. Cargo’s class due on Thursday.
See her if you do not still have your graph
Math for the week:
227 1-32 all *show the power of ones when simplifying due Tuesday
230-232 1-37 odds due Wednesday
234-235 2-32 evens due Thursday
236-237 1-17 all due Friday must show on a number line
240-241 1-14 all due Tuesday, December 7th
Chapter 10 Version A all due Wednesday, December 8th
Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
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