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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
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
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
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
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