Today -- we completed our Theme 2 projects for this go around. We were busy bees on Thursday, Friday and today. We now have just one more presentation to make and their delay is only because of some technical difficulties caused by MS movie maker.
We had some great presentation and overall people are growing and learning through the project process. We had some of the following:
A CBS news cast covering Jerry Brown’s election win and history.
A compare and contrast presentation between Michael Phelps and myself.
A presentation on Bob Montana the artist behind the Archie comics.
We had a prezi.com presentation on Meg Whitman and her life and times.
We had a prezi.com presentation that covered Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Amelia Earhart.
We had a powerpoint that covered the life/times of Kristi Yamaguchi, JK Rowling, M. Sonne’s grandmother (a great artist), and the Beatles.
We had a special visit on Friday from Cleopatra and from King Tut themselves and they also did a powerpoint full of information.
We had Brandon do a great photo movie and a presentation on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.
Check out his cool lego movie: http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/2010/12/brandons-presentation.html
We had a prezi.com presenation on McLain Ward, Olympic horseback rider, & his horse Sapphire along with a presentation on tennis great Vennus Williams.
We had a powerpoint today on Dan Bowle of the S.J. Sharks.
We also had a powerpoint and a journal entry about Martin Luther King Jr.
We had a spirited debate full of many sports facts about who is greater Sidney Crosby or Michael Jordan.
If you would like to see all your son/daughters work here is the link with the various presentations:
http://www.box.net/shared/cl807c0r96
Here are the www.prezi.com presentations:
http://prezi.com/l2eskmq674uc/women-in-history/
http://prezi.com/dzg6sfrkv0i1/famous-people-who-gave-it-all-they-got/
http://prezi.com/hhbgetvr4rq4/meg-whitman/
Besides projects, we did do our spelling and here are the words for the week:
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_02.html
We read the entire story this week for Katie’s Trunk. We spent some time discussing what is a Torie, a Loyalist, a Patriot or a Rebel. So students do not have to spend time this week with the reading part, just completing the necessary P.B. and Open-Ended questions.
We also went over the key vocabulary for the week.
Math:
Getting ready for Wednesday’s test and I am fearful since a part of the test covers materials we began PRIOR to the Thanksgiving vacation. So I emphasized with the kids the need to restudy the entire chapter.
We did some review of tonight’s homework and also of the chapter itself.
Here is the link for the math review test due on Wednesday:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
**FYI -- if your child has access to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com tonight or tomorrow, I also posted another practice quiz/test that has 3 questions from all TEN lessons in Chapter 10. They can take the test and get immediate feedback which would be a great study device.
After lunch with met with Melissa Grottkau. She is a teacher currently attending Cal. State East Bay. If everything goes as planned, she will be apprenticing with us beginning in January 2011. She gave a little history about herself (she shared that her mom is a teacher as well!!) and took questions from the students. She would definitely be a great asset to our DES community and I look forward to working with her.
We spent the last part of our day working on writing down our homework for the week.
Just a follow up to last week’s email conversations, the Friday before the holiday vacation is a ½ day. It runs from 8:30-12:30. Historically I have asked the room moms if we can incorporate some type of giving back into the day’s events. Why? Caring and giving back is directly aligned with our city, our district and our school’s character attributes. Also I have always remember I read somewhere, “Don’t wish for your child to have a happy life; rather wish that they will live a life full of goodness and kindness and the happiness will follow.” Therefore we have made tree ornaments for the elderly in the past (e.g. Mr. Haar’s class is writing letters/cards to the elderly on that Friday), we have donated and wrapped toys for Toys for Tots and we have adopted a family as well. In my opinion the students have enjoyed participating in these type of activities, feel it is far superior to a vocabulary/spelling test and they don’t see it as a chore.
Now having said that, we do spend a great deal of the day with a party of some-kind. I must say that several years, I have end up playing the movie Elf with Will Ferrell or allowed them to run off their sugar high outdoors towards the end of the day since you can only eat so many cupcakes, drink hot-chocolate and what-not. However these parties are whatever you guys want them to be, I 100% get that after this year there will be no more school site parties so I do not plan any great lectures, tests or exams on this day -- they are whatever you want them to be.. So continue having the discussions and offering to volunteer/help with our room-parents.
Here is the homework for the week:
Reading Comprehension due on Friday:
Read pages -- 282 through 304
Answer two questions on page 304, make them a “master-piece”
P.B. 161, 162 and 163
Grammar due on Thursday:
P.B. 169, 170, 171
Writing due on Friday:
P.B 172
Type or write out a Friendly Letter to an adult that you know and that you want to write to them.
Vocab Work due on Wednesday:
Define and use in a sentence the 5 challenge words:
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t03_02.html
P.B. 159, 164, and 168
Math:
240-241 1-14 all due Tuesday, December 7th
Chapter 10 Version A all due Wednesday, December 8th
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Chapter 10 test will be on Wednesday.
Chapter 11 248-249 2-36 even due Thursday
252-253 1-35 all due on Friday
Free Write due Friday:
For me the holiday season has always meant.....
*Please please make this a non-fiction free write. I love reading and hearing about all of the great family traditions that exist out there.
Free Write due Thursday:
Free free write -- write about whatever you want
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