It is “lucky” week 13.Today is day 57 of the school year.
I’ll apologize ahead of time about this week, it will be hard to send out updates with this being student/parent/teacher conference week. Some of the evenings end up running late and we still prepare for the next day so know that we are learning and that we care, just this could be the one and only update for the week.
CNN Students -- we strategically skipped last Thursday’s Cnn Students. They brought up the Penn State, Paterno, football, etc..scandal and I felt that was something I did not want to discuss in class. CNN did a great job of being vague, I just was worried some of our students may not show the same discretion. Some students were bummed however I encouraged them speak w/ mom & dad. I did use the opportunity to bring up our on-going discussion about the need for everyday heroes. That we all can be heroes and everyone has the ability and in some cases “the moral right” to stand up for the meek or less fortunate.
Today’s discussions were the APEC mtgs, Italy is searching for a new Prime Minister, Brazil is hosting the next World Cup however they are trying to fix some internal challenges prior to the big event, NASA has opened up their former Space Shuttle operations for field trips, and we learned more about the Dead Sea.
Preparing for student-led conferences.
We discussed what a 1,2,3 and 4 means on a report card.
We discussed what is a well written and meaningful goal and how to write correctly.
We discussed a generic report card and what sections were on the report card.
We then went over their script that can use during the meeting.
DEAR time, IXL.com and writing down our homework for the week.
Students were given time to have an opportunity to accomplish all three things and this allowed the five students with conferences tonight to prepare.
As a class we did review this PowerPoint to ensure we understood how to simplify and/or reduce fractions.
Unique things this week:
Except those few students with a 20-25 minutes student led conference, there is no school on Friday.
All days end at 2:05 this week.
Homework for the week:
Math
236-237 1-15 all due Tuesday
Click here if you need some blank number lines for homework tonight.
238-239 1-13 all also due Tuesday
240-241 all due Wednesday **everyone must do these pages
Test Version A due Thursday
Topic 10 test due on Thursday
Vocab all due Wednesday
5 challenge words (posters or sentences/definitions)
P.B. 174,179 and 183
Word list is here
Grammar due Thursday
P.B. 184,185 and 186
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)
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