Sorry that this is my first communication this week. It has been a tough week, my 93 Camry died on me Sunday so we are down to one car at home, I had to go in for some minor surgery on Wednesday, and my mom’s family all live in the part of Alabama devastated by Mother Nature and I couldn't find out their status for a day. It was a looong 24 hours between communique because they were down power and cell service but this morning via voicemail/Facebook, they confirmed they were all ok.
Anyway -- at school we are in the heart of test prepping for the next two weeks.
In case you forgot:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the next two weeks will be test taking.
So we spend a great portion of the day using the response devices, discussing test taking strategies and reviewing skills necessary for language arts, math and science.
So we have been reviewing the most challenging math concepts. We took a survey on Tuesday and I asked students to tell which concepts they need to see and practice with. The two most popular were work with adding/subtracting with positive & negative integers AND multiplying/dividing with decimals & fractions.
Tonight’s homework is working on the fractions & decimals and completing the large math packet given to them on Tuesday. It is 60+ problems but they were encouraged and given time to realistically complete 20 problems per day so it would not be a big homework issue tonight.
If you need answers to the math handouts and you want to see our notes CLICK HERE.
In today’s math time we did some extra work on circumference and area of a circle.
Note above and CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT KHAN ACADEMY VIDEO ON CIRCLE BASICS
We did some poetry discussions on one of my personal favorite poems “The Road Not Taken”
Tonight’s poem work is “If”
All of our poems can be found here CLICK HERE
Students have one more evening of reading practice for state testing. Tonight’s reading is Scarecrows Then and Now -- about facts versus opinion
Passages (page 68-69) --- what is the main idea of the paragraph
Homework:
Math
1. handout on multiplication division decimals and fractions
2. handout on the toughest concepts for 5th grade math
both packets found right here and it includes answers
The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday is also in the link above
Language Arts:
See above the handout about facts/opinion and main idea
Poetry
See above for the link, it is the poem “If”
Science
Read and do the pages on the 148-150
Cargo rotation -- students need get their incomplete assignments in ASAP
May Testing Review:
If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS
Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level. CLICK HERE
The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on. CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Anyway -- at school we are in the heart of test prepping for the next two weeks.
In case you forgot:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the next two weeks will be test taking.
So we spend a great portion of the day using the response devices, discussing test taking strategies and reviewing skills necessary for language arts, math and science.
So we have been reviewing the most challenging math concepts. We took a survey on Tuesday and I asked students to tell which concepts they need to see and practice with. The two most popular were work with adding/subtracting with positive & negative integers AND multiplying/dividing with decimals & fractions.
Tonight’s homework is working on the fractions & decimals and completing the large math packet given to them on Tuesday. It is 60+ problems but they were encouraged and given time to realistically complete 20 problems per day so it would not be a big homework issue tonight.
If you need answers to the math handouts and you want to see our notes CLICK HERE.
In today’s math time we did some extra work on circumference and area of a circle.
Note above and CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT KHAN ACADEMY VIDEO ON CIRCLE BASICS
We did some poetry discussions on one of my personal favorite poems “The Road Not Taken”
Tonight’s poem work is “If”
All of our poems can be found here CLICK HERE
Students have one more evening of reading practice for state testing. Tonight’s reading is Scarecrows Then and Now -- about facts versus opinion
Passages (page 68-69) --- what is the main idea of the paragraph
Homework:
Math
1. handout on multiplication division decimals and fractions
2. handout on the toughest concepts for 5th grade math
both packets found right here and it includes answers
The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday is also in the link above
Language Arts:
See above the handout about facts/opinion and main idea
Poetry
See above for the link, it is the poem “If”
Science
Read and do the pages on the 148-150
Cargo rotation -- students need get their incomplete assignments in ASAP
May Testing Review:
If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS
Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level. CLICK HERE
The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on. CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
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