Thursday, March 31st

In the morning students were given time to read, prepare for their social studies test, complete their practice book pages for the week, and read for science.

After this DEAR time, we had a special adverb lesson given by guest “teacher” Nicki B.  She did a great job showing her correct work and also explaining why her words were adverbs :)

We then did some social studies catch-up in preparation for tomorrow’s social studies exam.  We watched a great lesson on General Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben.

We also watched and discussed how:
General Washington was a man of the up most character because he easily could have become a “king” or a dictator once the Revolutionary War ended.  
General Washington had to fight off a potential rebellion early on and he did it by “reaching for his eye glasses.”  
Tomorrow is the big test, so they MUST have completed their study guide and they MUST bring that study guide with them.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY GUIDE

Math:
More geometry definitions and using algebra or Singapore method to find missing angles.  
Students will need to have memorized all of the definitions that we discussed today and that they wrote either on notecards or in their notebook.  
Once again Smartboard crashed on me and we lost all of our work and notes :(

Cargo and Wilmott rotations.
There is science homework tonight.

5th Grade Dedications (you have received several emails about this, the deadline is a HARD deadline on Friday):
I just wanted to communicate to you about the 5th grade dedications.  Below is who I have so far.  Unfortunately, it's not many.  Could you please mention to your class that their baby pic and message has to be turned in BEFORE spring break - by Friday, April 1st.  We cannot accept anything after we come back from the break.
Thanks so much.  If there are any questions, please let me know.
~Jenn Rowen
CLICK TO OPEN the form that you need to complete

Have a great Thursday evening,
Mr. Hubbard

Math
Page 180 1-12 and page 182-183 1-15 all due Friday
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH NOTES AND PRACTICE TESTS

Reading Comprehension due by Friday:
Read pages 550-564
2 masterpieces on-line -- WILL BE GIVEN TIME IN CLASS TO COMPLETE ON FRIDAY
P.B. 325, 326, and 327
Take your A.R. test

Social Studies Test:
On Friday for our class.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY GUIDE

Free-Write due Friday
Describe what life would be like WITHOUT Saturdays

Vocabulary and Spelling Test on Friday:
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK'S SPELLING AND VOCAB WORDS

Tuesday, March 29th

Here is what we did today:
CLICK HERE TO GET ALL THE DETAILS on what we did in the computer lab

The highlight of the time there was easily the “Build Your Wild-Self”
CLICK HERE TO BUILD YOUR WILD SELF  
I allowed them to print them up in color, so please ask your son or daughter to show you their “wild-self.”

Math Test:
We had practiced for this test last night for homework and also in the computer lab today.  So I believe the kids were well prepared for today’s test.
FYI -- we move onto Chapter 8 and it is only four days of lessons, then another review day and then the test.  Chapter 14 and Chapter 19 will be similar quick hitting lessons.

After the test, we did cover some of the basic Geometric terms that will be assessed this chapter.
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH NOTES

While students completed their test at different times, students were allowed to:
1. study for their big science test on Wednesday
2. work on their social studies notebook and prepare for the test
3. work on tonight’s math test
4.  complete tomorrow’s vocabulary work

P.E. in this perfect weather.  

5th Grade Dedications (you have received several emails about this, the deadline is a HARD deadline on Friday):
I just wanted to communicate to you about the 5th grade dedications.  Below is who I have so far.  Unfortunately, it's not many.  Could you please mention to your class that their baby pic and message has to be turned in BEFORE spring break - by Friday, April 1st.  We cannot accept anything after we come back from the break.
Thanks so much.  If there are any questions, please let me know.
~Jenn Rowen
CLICK TO OPEN the form that you need to complete

Have a great Monday evening,
Mr. Hubbard

Math
Page 175-176 all  Wednesday
Page 178-179 all Thursday
Page 180 1-12 and page 182-183 1-15 all due Friday
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH NOTES AND PRACTICE TESTS

Reading Comprehension due by Friday:
Read pages 550-564
2 masterpieces on-line
P.B. 325, 326, and 327
Take your A.R. test

Social Studies Test:
On Friday for our class.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY GUIDE

Free-Write due Friday
Describe what life would be like WITHOUT Saturdays

Grammar due by Thursday:
P.B. 333, 334, and 335

Vocabulary due Wednesday:
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK'S SPELLING AND VOCAB WORDS
Challenge Words and Sentences
P.B. 323, 328 and 332

Science Test is on Wednesday

March 29th Technology Lab Time....

1st --- Type of 20 minutes.  So you should stop around 8:50

2nd --- CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO www.pearsonsuccessnet.com 
I have assigned you the chapter 16 test so you can make sure you are ready for today's test.  Complete this test before moving onto the 3rd or 4th options.
You may use your book or your notebook to make sure are answering correctly.  Use this test to help you prepare to kick some serious butt on today's test.

3rd --  CLICK HERE TO BUILD YOUR WILD SELF 
You are to spend no more than 10 minutes on this.  Play around with building yourself, print it (2 of them because I would like one) and then move onto 4th and 5th  below.

4th -- Watch some Brainpops to get ready for our next chapter:   Please take the quizes and test yourself and your ability to watch and learn the concepts.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A BRAINPOP MOVIE ON ANGLES

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A BRAINPOP on basic geometry terms

5th --- Watch the www.pearsonsuccessnet.com lessons that were assigned to you.  You must take the 5 question quizzes.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO PEARSONSUCCESSNET.COM

6th --- CLICK TO READ ABOUT THE MISSING COBRA AT THE N.Y. ZOO

Monday, March 28th

Spelling Pretest...

Elena story -- we watched the brainpop.com movie on the Mexican Revolution;  This movie did a great job of setting the setting and background knowledge about the uncertainty that Elena’s family must face if they choose to stay in Mexico in the early 1900’s.   We also went over this week’s vocabulary words.  

DEAR time

Social studies:
We learned about James Armistead and the battles out in south.
We then learned about events leading up to our final Yorktown battle.
CLICK HERE to get the study guide

Math:
Reviewing our final algebra concepts prior to tomorrow’s test.  
We worked on the two pages of algebra reviews.  

Discuss our Friday Google/Fed Express day....
The kids shared out the projects that they researched and worked on last Friday.  Tons of Prezi’s were created about topics that interested the students.  We also have three kids teaching themselves HTML, a letter was written to President Obama, and some Google Sketch was experimented with.

5th Grade Dedications (you have received several emails about this, the deadline is a HARD deadline on Friday):
I just wanted to communicate to you about the 5th grade dedications.  Below is who I have so far.  Unfortunately, it's not many.  Could you please mention to your class that their baby pic and message has to be turned in BEFORE spring break - by Friday, April 1st.  We cannot accept anything after we come back from the break.
Thanks so much.  If there are any questions, please let me know.
~Jenn Rowen
CLICK TO OPEN the form that you need to complete

Have a great Monday evening,
Mr. Hubbard

Math
Test version A  on Tuesday

• Test on Tuesday

Page 175-176 all  Wednesday
Page 178-179 all Thursday
Page 180 1-12 and page 182-183 1-15 all due Friday
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH NOTES AND PRACTICE TESTS

Reading Comprehension due by Friday:
Read pages 550-564
2 masterpieces on-line
P.B. 325, 326, and 327
Take your A.R. test

Social Studies Test:
On Friday for our class.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY GUIDE

Free-Write due Friday
Describe what life would be like WITHOUT Saturdays

Grammar due by Thursday:
P.B. 333, 334, and 335

Vocabulary due Wednesday:
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK'S SPELLING AND VOCAB WORDS
Challenge Words and Sentences
P.B. 323, 328 and 332

Science Test is on Wednesday

Studying for the end of the American Revolution Exam

The test will be on Thursday, March 31st.

Students were given the study guide on Thursday the 24th and STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to answer 7 or 8 questions per evening to be best prepared for the exam.

Click here to see the study guide.

Here is a collection of my favorite American Revolution Links.

Black Cowboy Wild Horses -- Your Masterpieces

CLICK HERE TO INPUT YOUR MASTERPIECES

Wednesday, March 23, 2010

Tonight at 6:30 is the big town hall meeting about the proposed charter school.  If you are interested in finding out more about the process and what lies ahead, it is being held at the D.O.  

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Library this morning.....

Dear Time

Review our 21st Century Learning projects that were completed:

CLICK HERE FOR A 21ST CENTURY MOVIE

CLICK HERE FOR The 21st learning Prezi presentation:

CLICK HERE FOR THE The How to Do a Prezi presentation:

CLICK HERE FOR the presentation on how to use www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

Vocabulary and Practice Book pages.

Rotated to Mrs. Cargo’s class and Mrs. Wilmott’s class.

Math:
More basic algebra skills this time with multiplication, division, and reciprocals
CLICK HERE FOR OUR MATH NOTES FROM TODAY

CLICK HERE FOR KHAN ACAD VIDEOS ON CHAPTER 16

Then our collaboration day ended early at 1:50;

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math:
Page 364-365   1-24 all due Wednesday
Page 366-367  1-25 all due Thursday
Page 369 8-14 all AND page 371  1-11 all due Friday

Reading Comprehension all due by Friday
Read all of Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
Answer 2 Masterpieces on-line by Friday
Practice Book page(s) -- P.B. 308, 310, 311, and 312
Take the A.R. test by Friday

Grammar all due by Thursday
Double subjects and “we” versus “us”
Practice Book Pages P.B. 318, 319, 320

Spelling and Vocab test on Friday:
CLICK HERE FOR THE BLACK COWBOY, WILD HORSES SPELLING WORDS

Free-Write due Thursday
When I think of spring time, I think of......

Free-Write due Friday
I’m going to describe for you the “ultimate student/scholar” …..

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Sorry about Monday, I had to get some tests done.   There could be more to come, I’ll keep everyone in the loop.  

Tomorrow is another collaboration day so the kids head home at 1:50.


Computer lab time.....
20 minutes of typing
We used www.pearsonsuccessnet.com to review this chapter’s lessons.
We  used www.brainpop.com to watch two movies on solving for equations and solving with variables.
We finally did some www.freerice.com  on grammar and some Grammar Ninja.

Math
Chapter 15 Test
Students finished quickly and they seemed to believe that it was extremely easy.  


Social Studies
John Paul Jones
The father of the Navy!!  What a great inspirational story about that American “can-do” attitude.  
CLASSIC 1950'S VIDEO PRODUCED BY OUR US NAVY CONCERING JOHN PAUL JONES
CLICK HERE FOR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE on John Paul Jones
http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/jones_jp.htm

Math:
CLICK HERE FOR OUR MATH HANDOUTS
We began the process of getting ready for more advanced algebra.  
CLICK HERE FOR KHAN ACAD VIDEOS ON CHAPTER 16

P.E.

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math:
Page 364-365   1-24 all due Wednesday
Page 366-367       1-25 all due Thursday
Page 369 8-14 all AND page 371  1-11 all due Friday

Reading Comprehension all due by Friday
Read all of Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
Answer 2 Masterpieces on-line by Friday
Practice Book page(s) -- P.B. 308, 310, 311, and 312
Take the A.R. test by Friday

Grammar all due by Thursday
Double subjects and “we” versus “us”
Practice Book Pages P.B. 318, 319, 320

Vocabulary all due by Wednesday
The sentences and definitions
P.B. pages for Black Cowboy, Wild Horses  P.B. 315, 316 and 317
CLICK HERE FOR THE BLACK COWBOY, WILD HORSES SPELLING WORDS

Free-Write due Thursday
When I think of spring time, I think of......

Free-Write due Friday
I’m going to describe for you the “ultimate student/scholar” …..

Computer Lab on March 22, 2011

1.  20 minutes of typing --stop around 8:45'ish
2.   go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com  
There are the intro video to chapter 16
Watch that --- everyone
Then I assigned the next 3 lessons, you must watch the first 2 and then take the 5 question quiz.

3.  Go to brainpop.com
click here for a brainpop movie on 2 part equations
click here for a brainpop movie on solving equations

Special Computer Lab on 3/18

Things you can do:

1.  Work on your Famous American reports

2.  Finish your www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

3. CLICK HERE FOR FREE RICE

4. CLICK HERE FOR GRAMMAR NINJA

5. Work on their science fair projects
CLICK HERE FOR A FEW SCIENCE FAIR IDEAS

6.  Challenge other people with your math skills
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH GAMES

March 17, 2011

Famous American now due on Monday, March 21st.   A large number of people have expressed an interest in going for the 90% or higher on their first attempt.  Therefore, I am giving them the extra time.  Also my sister is in town from Austin, Texas and I rarely get to spend time with her so there is little to zero chance that I would look at them this weekend.  So let the kids have some extra time.  

Today --
With band going on, we played catch up and worked on projects.  Students continued to work on their reading comprehension, A.R. tests, math tests, and famous American reports.

We also spent some time reviewing our recent “masterpieces.”  A big emphasis on what goes into inference skills and what is an acceptable 5th grade answer.
CLICK HERE FOR a look at what we reviewed and discussed

Grammar:
Possesive pronouns
CLICK HERE FOR LESSON ON POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
CLICK HERE FOR A LESSON ON POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

Contractions
CLICK HERE FOR a Brainpop on contractions  (brainpop on contractions!!)   
CLICK HERE FOR examples on contractions

It, it is, and it’s
CLICK HERE FOR EXAMPLES ON IT, IT IS AND IT'S

Math:
Positive and Negative Numbers combined with algebra concepts
We spent a great deal of time on both Wednesday and Thursday going over this foundation building skill.
CLICK HERE FOR THE MATH NOTES

Kind regards!!

Mr. Hubbard