All the way live with day 5 in 2011-2012

Day 5: An extra “special” Friday posting.

We concluded our first week with beautiful weather and spirited students. Today in quick run-down: We started the day with The Week In Rap. We use Friday morning to discuss current events that have been going on this week. Therefore we discussed the east coast’s earthquake, Hurricane Irene, hiking in Iran, the MLK Jr. Monument, and the 49er/Raider fiasco last weekend.

 We completed our “I believe” project. We tried to work on adding some “meat” to go with our dreams. I challenged many of the students to go back and use the word “because” and explain what they will have to commit to doing in order to reach their dream (e.g. take notes, study before tests, read every night, etc..) Look for their “I believe” statements hanging up in the multi-purpose room during Thursday’s Back to School Evening.

 Drop Everything And Read time (DEAR time): We laid down expectations, students opened their books and they read for 20 minutes. This class did a wonderful job of enjoying this time to get some awesome reading done. We also had our first student have 100 pages signed off!!

If the World Was a Village -- we completed the book and discussed the topics of electricity, what the village looked like in the past and what it will look like in the future. The section on electricity lead to a ton of great conversations from how to get by without air-conditioning, a heater, candles/oil-lamps and computers/t.v. & radios. We also had a discussion regarding the book’s use of the B.C.E. and C.E. rather than B.C. and A.D.

 Math -- we reviewed last night’s math homework. We were able to use the response devices and discuss trends regarding what we were successful completing and areas that we need to focus our studies towards. 

Mrs. Silva did an art project and social studies lesson with them to complete the day. They were taking notes regarding the three branches of government while placing the notes next to the tree that they painted today (guess how many branches their tree has?) Students showed a great deal of government knowledge. They easily could identify who our Vice-President is and they knew the role of the Supreme Court and the number of Justices.

No weekend homework...this is a general rule, unless students struggle with learning our Friday math lesson in which case they sometimes get assigned weekend homework.
 Remember: Thursday evening is Back to School Night!!
 Friday is a teacher work day so students do not have school
2:05 -- Monday & Tuesday
2:50 --Wednesday & Thursday

Kind regards,
 Ron Hubbard
Teacher,
5th Grade
Dublin Elementary School
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