Monday, January 31st and the day before ZEUM

Field trip to Zeum tomorrow!!

1. We are asking students to arrive at the Dublin Elementary School parking lot at 7:45.

• We would like the bus to leave promptly at 8:00 a.m.

2. We will be returning to the school close to 2:50.

• Our usual release time on Tuesday is 2:05 therefore please plan for our later release time.  

3. There is no snack-bar at Zeum so please have your son or daughter pack a lunch.  If they usually enjoy a morning snack, you may want to pack something for that as well.  

4. It is in San Francisco and www.accuweather.com is saying that it will be a high of 59 tomorrow with clear skies.  

5. For the chaperons that are going on the field trip, please park outside our school parking lot.  

• This will make parking and coming/going much easier for our community throughout the day.  

We started our day with the monthly assembly for February -- Trustworthiness

We then had our school level spelling competition.  All 4th and 5th graders were able to compete in this year’s competition.  Our class earned one representative:  Taylor Hitchan.   The other two DES representatives and “Hitch” will represent our community at the district level sometime in early February.   

We came back and did our weekly pre-test in spelling:
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t04_02.html

DEAR time -- students could read or work on researching for their Famous American Report

Math:
A follow up to our Friday lesson -- multiplication and division with decimals.
Friday’s lesson :  multiplying by 10, 100,  or 1000  
Today’s lesson:  multiplying with one whole number and one decimal
Our notes from today’s math lesson:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Here is the Alameda lesson on multiplication with decimals (about 20 clicks into presentation):
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Area%20model%20through%20the%20gradesV2.swf

Here are two great resource lessons on multiplying decimals as well:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/multiplying-decimals?playlist=Developmental%20Math
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/multiplying-decimals-2?playlist=Developmental%20Math

Homework for the week:
Math
page 136-137 all  due Wednesday
page 138-139 odd due Wednesday
page 142-143 2-34 evens due Thursday
page 144-145 2-38 evens due Friday

Comprehension all due by Friday:
Read pages369 through 385
Answer any two questions on page 385; make it your master piece;
P.B.  218
A.R. test

Grammar all due on Thursday
Commas
P.B. 227, 228 and 229

Vocab all due on Wednesday
P.B. 217, 222, and 226
5 challenge words -- definition and use them in a sentence
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t04_02.html

Free-Write due Thursday:
Tell me about your experience at Zeum

Free-Write due Friday:
Describe the day in the life of “Mookie”

Science:
study guide is due on Wednesday and the large exam this week.  

Famous American Report:
http://www.box.net/shared/4idhdcrbhs
Here are the high level due dates:A person chosen & a book found Friday, February 4, 2011
Notes due – broken into the five topics Friday, February 18, 2011
Rough Draft due                                             Friday, March 18,  2011
Final copy due                                                Friday, April 15, 2011