Thursday #47 2011 2012

I have my monthly long 90+ technology meeting so this is super quick.

Tomorrow the parade hopes to start at 9:00 a.m.

Students should come to school in their costume.
If the costume is overly distracting please have students bring a chance of clothes so they still sit the rest of the day.
**We went to our Buddy Class today, they just adore the 5th graders.  However they are only 5 or 6 years old so please do not put on too much blood or gory costumes.  As we left today all of the buddies were saying, "see you tomorrow!!"  We don't want to tramatize the entire kindergarten kids****


Technology Time:
CLICK HERE to see what we did in the computer lab today

Math time
The entire class covered Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor or Greatest Common Divisor
Here are our notes.  http://www.box.net/shared/e26eg85h8gylpyvjq86e 
Here is a khan video on finding factoring ( http://www.khanacademy.org/video/finding-factors-of-a-number?playlist=Developmental+Math )
On www.ixl.com -- all the K lessons found in “Number Theory” of 5th grade would be great skills to master.

On Friday we are watching A Princess Bride, it is PG so we require your written permission.
Here is the document to print up and sign that it is ok for them to watch the movie. I also included links to sites that will give you a review from a parent’s perspective.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ngfi7dpclx8mctezrhz1.doc

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 204-205 4-24 all due Friday


Writing:
Rough draft of the compare and contrast essay is due on Friday.
Many students worked another 45 minutes during the computer lab time so they have already printed it up.

Book Card is due on Friday
Click here for the instructions and also you can try dropping your file into the book card folder
**I set up this folder so you can sign in and drop off book card files (power points or PDFs)
Click here for the instructions and also you can try dropping your file into the book card folder


Bill of Rights / Amendment Poster is due on Tuesday 11/2
They were given verbal instructions and we discussed how to research your amendment further.
Use this link.
http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/2011/10/bill-of-rights-information-for.html

Technology Thursday October 27th

Technology Thursday

Typing for 15 minutes.   You may use your 15 minutes to practice by typing in your compare and contrast essay.


 THREE VIDEOS:
1,  Watch the next video in the Khan Academy:

Unit 1 and Part 6 


2.

Greatest common divisor 


3.

Least common multiple


Then rest of the time, work on compare and contrast essay and/or amendment poster..

 How to save onto your I-Drive
Save As
Find the arrow and pull it down
Find your name and double click
Find "My Document" and double click

Wednesday Day #46 2011 2012

CNN students
Hurricane Rina is coming to Mexico and it may hit some tourist areas.    We also learned how Japan is still cleaning up from the 9.0 earthquake that hit them in March.   Hawaii is starting to receive some of the debris from Japan as it has floated towards their islands.  We talked about a “flat tax” and how that would work for their parents and for them.  

Students were given 45 minutes to work on their compare and contrast essays.  I was able to proofread about 10 of the rough drafts and offer suggestions for improvement.  The big “theme” for improvement was adding more specific details from each individual story.  Students were and have been strongly encouraged to quote from the stories.

Social Studies -- students had 25 minutes to begin researching and working on their amendment poster.  Students that take the time to pull up the resources found on my web-posting have been finding the power points to be especially helpful.  

Science -- they are starting their unit on atoms and other small yet “big” information.

Poetry memorizing and reciting....we had about 8 students perform today.  

Singing

 Math time -- We are becoming factor masters!!  More work with factoring trees and at the end we worked on using our factoring skills to reduce a fraction.    We also watched a great Brainpop on factoring.  
As a team we completed the first 5 problems on tonight’s homework and they were given 10 minutes to work independently.
Here are our notes.
Here is a khan video on finding factoring
On www.ixl.com -- all the K lessons found in “Number Theory” of 5th grade would be great skills to master.

Reading Comprehension and reading for high-stakes testing...we discussed the comprehension skill of putting information into order as you read.  Our short story had a part where they referred to events that occurred prior to the current day discussed in 80% of the story.  

On Friday we are watching A Princess Bride, it is PG so we require your written permission.
Here is the document to print up and sign that it is ok for them to watch the movie.  I also included links to sites that will give you a review from a parent’s perspective.

Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard
Mr. Hubbard
http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron
http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/
Use my Gmail account and you can make me your coach on http://www.khanacademy.org/class_profile
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain

Homework for the week:

Math
Page 202-203 1-31 odd due Thursday
Page 204-205 4-24 all due Friday

Science:
Page 157 and IV due by Tuesday

Writing:
Rough draft of the compare and contrast essay is due on Friday.  Please note the new due date.  
Final draft due on Wednesday next week.  (they will be given time to type this out on Wednesday and Thursday in class).

Book Card is due on Friday
Click here for the instructions and also you can try dropping your file into the book card folder
**I set up this folder so you can sign in and drop off book card files (power points or PDFs)

X and Y coordinate graphing and art is due on Thursday.

Free Write due on Thursday
A true free write - -any subject that you want

Short animal poems must be memorized by Tuesday (11/2)  for a dramatic presentation

Bill of Rights / Amendment Poster is due on Tuesday 11/2
They were given verbal instructions and we discussed how to research your amendment further.  
Use this link.

Spelling and Vocab Review
Note the spelling test and vocabulary test will be on a “special” Thursday.  Past test given on Halloween Fridays have not been pretty.  
This week's review words

Red Ribbon Week:
Thursday -- 5th graders are supposed to wear white

Tuesday Day #45 in 2011 2012

poster is from www.digitalscrapbookplace.com

CNN students
The earthquake in Turkey and how the situation is made more difficult by the chilly weather.   The first democratic elections in Tunisia since 1956.  They are writing a brand new constitution so we talked about our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.  The “Arab Spring” = bad time to be a dictator and maybe a great time to discover democracy?  We then talked about ambassadors and why being a USA ambassador in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas may be a cushier job that the ambassador in Syria.   We then had more “jobs bill”  talk with President Obama being in California, Colorado and Nevada.      Finally they had a great demonstration of the “Kind Campaign”;  it focuses on girls bullying other girls.  Their website has a ton of resources, if you have a daughter, it may be worth check them out.   

Social Studies -- we have now covered all of their 10 Bill of Rights.  We discussed them as a class and gave several examples.   We then went over some of the on-line resources they could use.  Here is the on-line resources.  
**The poster is now due on Tuesday, November 1st.

Science -- the students had their test.  No homework!!

Math:
Prime number?  Or composite number?   We reviewed yesterday’s lesson on divisibility rules.  We then used those rules to decide if a number is a prime number or a composite number.
Here are the notes from today
Here is a khan video on finding factoring
On www.ixl.com -- all the K lessons found in “Number Theory” of 5th grade would be great skills to master.

Universal Access:   Creating the mother of all fraction book.   An amazing fraction keepsake with various self-created examples of different types of fractions!!  This will be super helpful as we go through the fraction chapters.


On Friday we are watching A Princess Bride, it is PG so we require your written permission.
Here is the document to print up and sign that it is ok for them to watch the movie.  I also included links to sites that will give you a review from a parent’s perspective.

Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard

Mr. Hubbard

http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron

http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/

Use my Gmail account and you can make me your coach on http://www.khanacademy.org/class_profile

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

• Mark Twain

Homework for the week:

Math
Page 199-200 1-29 odd due Wednesday
Page 202-203 1-31 odd due Thursday
Page 204-205 4-24 all due Friday

Science:
No homework!!

Writing:
Rough draft of the compare and contrast essay is due on Thursday.  Please note the new due date.  
Final draft due on Wednesday next week.  (they will be given time to type this out on Wednesday and Thursday in class).

Book Card is due on Friday
Click here for the instructions and also you can try dropping your file into the book card folder
**I set up this folder so you can sign in and drop off book card files (power points or PDFs)

X and Y coordinate graphing and art is due on Thursday.

Free Write due on Thursday
A true free write - -any subject that you want

Short animal poems must be memorized by Wednesday for a dramatic presentation

Extra credit:
CNN students had a restaurant that makes a jumbo hamburger.  It contains 540,000 calories!!!  Assuming a 11 year old should eat around 2,100 calories per day, how many 5th graders could that feed?  

Bill of Rights / Amendment Poster is due on Friday
They were given verbal instructions and we discussed how to research your amendment further.  
Use this link.

Spelling and Vocab Review
Note the spelling test and vocabulary test will be on a “special” Thursday.  Past test given on Halloween Fridays have not been pretty.  
This week's review words

Red Ribbon Week:
Wednesday --- support your favorite sport team and dress up in sports clothing
Thursday -- 5th graders are supposed to wear white

Bill of Rights Information for the Amendment Poster

The poster is due on Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Here is a great website with the Bill of Rights written in kid language.


Here is another website with the Bill of Rights written in kid language


This website has great information on individual amendments


This has website has great PowerPoint, written for students, to find out more about your individual amendment


Here is the Bill of Rights Rap song


Don’t forget that Brainpop has the following Brainpop videos on Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights Brainpop


Miranda Rights with the Bill of Rights


Your Bill of Rights while at school

Monday Day 44 of the 2011 2012 school year

If you get a chance, please take a few minutes to read this article that came out this weekend:
A great piece on the importance of reading for enjoyment and how to find great books to read.
Here is what I said on the class’ Facebook account when I posted the article:
The author lays it all on the line...1. He gives you a cornucopia of great resources to find book lists/recommendations, 2. He breaks down that the best way to become a better reader...”Just read”  and 3. You need to role-model in your house how reading is important.


CNN students
39,000 troops will be returning from Iraq by December 31st .   There is some concern about Iran’s influence after we leave.  This will definitely help our domestic budgetary challenges.  Turkey experienced an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude.  We then discussed the European Union and their on going debt challenges and to what extent do the more stable countries bailout their fellow neighboring countries.  Another satellite is falling into Earth and they were unclear where is was landing?  Finally we discussed baseball’s efforts to rid itself of players using chewing tobacco.   Some players feel this is the right thing to do since ballplayers are role-models.  Some players so this was a personal choice and they had the freedom to choose to chew.  This lead to a great conversation about Americans love with freedom and person rights versus a government’s desire to protect the common well-fare of its citizens.  

President #44 on Day 44

Spelling Pretest
Note the spelling test and vocabulary test will be on a “special” Thursday.  Past test given on Halloween Fridays have not been pretty.  
This week's review words



Writing:
We reviewed the ways to write a compare and contrast essay.  Students were then given 35 minutes to begin writing their rough draft in class.   3/4th of the students choose to diligently work and will less homework while the other 1/4th  chose to have more homework.
Rough draft is due on Wednesday morning



1st Trimester Math Assessment
Student did not have to specially study for this assessment.  It was a reflection on how well they have retained the math concepts covered in the first 9 weeks of the trimester.  This took on average about 70 minutes to complete.



P.E. -- they were outside in this beautiful sunny weather.



Discuss this week’s Bill of Rights / amendment assignment
Each student was given a poster paper and assigned one of the 10 amendments from our Bill of Rights.   The students will be given time in class to research what their Amendment means and create a poster that either defines, symbolizes or explains the meaning of their assigned amendment.  



Prepare for the week..
We used Luigi’s day planner and we practiced writing and prioritizing this week’s homework assignments.
Students had about 20 minutes to work on homework, study for tomorrow’s science test and work on www.IXL.com
Friday -- We have  about a 2 hour gap between the end of the Halloween parade until lunch time on Friday.  Since students minds are often on scary things, soon acquiring large amounts of sugar and it being Friday, we are going to watch a movie during that 2 hour period.  
I have chosen A Princess Bride.  It is PG so I do require your written permission your son/daughter may watch the movie.  
Here is the document to print up and sign that it is ok for them to watch the movie.  I also included links to sites that will give you a review from a parent’s perspective.



Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard

Mr. Hubbard

http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron

http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/

Use my Gmail account and you can make me your coach on http://www.khanacademy.org/class_profile

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

• Mark Twain

Homework for the week:

Math
Page 195  1-24 all due Tuesday **students should write down the box of divisibility rules into their math notebook.  
Page 199-200 1-29 odd due Wednesday
Page 202-203 1-31 odd due Thursday
Page 204-205 4-24 all due Friday

Science:
Have a well written completely filled out -- science study guide due Tuesday.  Study for the Tuesday test in science.

Writing:
Rough draft of the compare and contrast essay is due on Wednesday.
Final draft due on Thursday (they will be given time to type this out on Wednesday and Thursday in class).

Book Card is due on Friday
Click here for the instructions and also you can try dropping your file into the book card folder
**I set up this folder so you can sign in and drop off book card files (power points or PDFs)

X and Y coordinate graphing and art is due on Thursday.

Free Write due on Thursday
A true free write - -any subject that you want

Short animal poems must be memorized by Wednesday for a dramatic presentation

Extra credit:
CNN students had a restaurant that makes a jumbo hamburger.  It contains 540,000 calories!!!  Assuming a 11 year old should eat around 2,100 calories per day, how many 5th graders could that feed?  

Bill of Rights / Amendment Poster is due on Friday
They were given verbal instructions and we discussed how to research your ammendment further.  However I will get written instructions created by tomorrow’s update.  

Red Ribbon Week:
Tuesday --- wacky socks or wacky shoes or BOTH
Wednesday --- support your favorite sport team and dress up in sports clothing
Thursday -- 5th graders are supposed to wear white

Thursday Day 42 of 2011 2012

A "whole lot of shaking" and technology went on today.

The big news...at 10:45 we pretended to have an earthquake and then practiced how we would respond.  Then at 2:41 pm/pst, the big guy upstairs decided to participate in the California Shake Out Day and he gave us a 4.0 earthquake.  We were too caught doing math at the time to notice the shaking that was going on.

We started the day off with CNN students.   We discussed how the Republican debates are starting to get heated and personal.  We also discussed why the Democrats have not had several debates.   We then discussed Greece, making tough budget cuts and the protesting of their people regarding their budget crisis.   Then we contrasted how yesterday they discussed the drought throughout the USA south while flooding continues to plague Guatemala and El Savador.  Today's CNN heroes was a great one.  It talked about Sal Dimiceli,  a man that has dedicated his life to giving back money to those less fortunate.  

Technology Thursday --- typing, tons of math, and deciding if how we want to spend next Friday morning after the parade.    Here is what we did today.

Library Time -- it was only 15 minutes long;  Mrs. Klein was awesome and allowed students to show up at lunch time if they were unable to check out their books prior to the earthquake drill.

Earthquake drill -- the students took it seriously which is what I wanted to accomplish.  As a whole I am glad that we practiced this since there were some great ideas that came out of the practice session.  

Vocabulary time --- students were broken into teams of five.  They then shared out their amazing vocabulary posters and/or study cards.   

Math time -- we reviewed for tomorrow's test.  On last night's practice test the class averaged 85% correct.  There were some challenges on the final four questions which we tried to quickly cover.  

Tonight's homework should be even more great practice for tomorrow.
Tonight's homework and answers to tonight's homework can be found at this link.

U.A. time -- they are finishing their order of operations book markers and beginning their fraction keepsake book.  

We ended the day with some students working further on the mean, mode, median and range concepts and others working on algebra found in www.ixl.com

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard
http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron
http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/
Use my Gmail account and you can make me your coach on http://www.khanacademy.org/class_profile
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Homework for the week:

Math
Chapter 5 Version A test due Friday
Tonight's homework and answers to tonight's homework can be found at this link.
**Chapter 5 test on Friday

Words for Friday’s test

Science complete study guide for Tuesday’s test

Grammar due on Friday
P.B. pages on 123, 124 and 125

Free-Write due Friday
So your teacher has transformed into either:
1. a werewolf or
2. a vampire or
3. Frankenstein
Describe a “typical” day since the transformation

Bill of Rights homework did not happen this week.  We will cover Bill of Rights in class on Friday and homework next week.

Technology Thursday

Typing for 15 minutes

 Active listening and learning with more Singapore Math: Grade 3a, Unit 1 (part 5)

 
Then watch this video  Brainpop Movie on Order of Operations   Feel free to take the test.

 
Sign in to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com and take the chapter 5 review test that I created for you.  It is only 12 questions.

 
Then go to IXL.com, sign in and then try and master any skill from the 5th grade Algebra sections.


Take this important survey about our Halloween Friday next week.  

Wednesday Day 41 of 2011 2012

We started out with CNN students
 Israel and Palestine reached an agreement.  It was a trade of one Israeli soldier, who was released yesterday, for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners who will be released in two stages.  More Libya news with secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to their country.  They then discussed Las Vegas and its down economy, its  14.2% unemployment and what the city is trying to do to rebound.  We discussed the on-going drought in Texas because they showed an amazing dust storm.  Finally we learned about the “future” of motorcycles and economic traveling.  We discussed oil reserves, the cost of oil and the American large car mindset.

Heritage Project/Filming and DEAR time...
We have now recorded 20 of the 30 heritage projects.  At the end of this project, we will send home a DVD and you can see the final product.

Reading and Writing:
We continued our Alabama/Auburn reading comprehension and writing.  We completed their compare and contrast Venn diagrams.
We then discussed what is an effective compare and contrast essay and the two most common ways of creating a document.
Click here for the compare/contrast document.
Click here if you want all of my saved language arts documents

Science
Complete the study guide prior to Tuesday.  That is the day of the big test.

Prepare mentally and behaviorally for tomorrow’s earthquake drill.  I believe strongly how you practice is how you will act during the real event.  So I emphasized that jokes, unnecessarily making loud or fear inducing noises will NOT be tolerated and we talked how all our actions can keep everyone safe.

Math:
The big thing is to prepare for the chapter 5 test.  The key concepts, the ideas of variables/expressions and most importantly, orders of operations.
Here are our notes on Orders of Operations

Need more resources:
khan academy first video on order of operations
khan academy slightly more challenging lesson on order of operations
khan academy order of operations most challenging of the three
Brainpop Movie on Order of Operations

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard
http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron
http://mrhubbardsclass.blogspot.com/
Use my Gmail account and you can make me your coach on http://www.khanacademy.org/class_profile
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank


Homework for the week:

Math
130-131 1-16 all due Thursday
Chapter 5 Version A test due Friday
**Chapter 5 test on Friday

Words for Friday’s test

Science complete study guide for Tuesday’s test

Grammar due on Friday
P.B. pages on 123, 124 and 125

Free-Write due Friday
So your teacher has transformed into either:
1. a werewolf or
2. a vampire or
3. Frankenstein
Describe a “typical” day since the transformation

Bill of Rights homework will be this week.