CNN Students -- Syria and sanctions. We then had a pretty good conversation about what are sanctions, do they always work, and do they hurt only the people in power? We then talked about how democracy will be in action as Egypt goes forward with their elections today. Then we discussed Kuwait, why we are using it as a destination when our troops leave Iraq and Kuwaits role in the first Gulf War. “Black Friday” -- most students did not know that black is a positive when discussing business economics. No one in the class knew that “in the red” was the opposite and meant you were losing money. The NBA returns! We finished with quick overview of the brain yawning since it needs to literally cool-down and a solar airplane that uses no fuel.
Spelling pretest “review week” -- click here for the words
Completing language arts and math assessments -- this took about 90 minutes
Math - everyone participated in a presentation about fractions and LCM. We used a best practice from the guys in Alameda.
Here are our notes were we both show how to find the LCM and why this makes our answers more likely to be correct when we add or subtract fractions with unlike denominators. Click here for the notes.
***www.ixl.com is currently down; Our 30 day free trial period ended after 44 days. However PFC has given them a check for a 12 month period. It will begin no later than 12/1/11 so we will have our account running again no later than Thursday.
Prepare for the week -- we discussed what the game plan was for the week and we then wrote in our day planner for the week.
Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard
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“When the time to perform arrives, the time to prepare is past.”
John WoodenHere is the homework for the week:
Math:
Page 249 1-25 ALL due Tuesday
Page 252-253 1-27 all due Wed **must use the Venn Diagram
Page 254-255 1-29 odd due Thursday **must use the Venn Diagram
Page 256-257 1-31 odds due Friday **must use the Venn Diagram
Free-Write due Thursday:
“I love the winter time because.....”
Free-Write due Friday:
A free free-write
Possessive and Contractions paper due Tuesday
Click here for the handout
A grammar review handout will be given each day this week.
Book Card is due on November 30, 2011
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)
Theme 3 Test on 12/8
Click here for the study guide
Please bring your Thanksgiving packet to school on Tuesday
**Famous American Report** handout this week but due dates begin in January
Language Arts Book (the large yellow book but NOT the Practice Book)
Read pages 262-278 by Friday
Answer any four questions on page 280 by Friday. The answers must be in complete sentences. I strongly recommend using the word “because” and you must make reference(s) to information found in the reading.
Spelling and Vocab review test is on Friday
click here for the words
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