Thursday #73 2011 2012

It was a pretty amazing day here at school.  It went quick and the students continue to push themselves as we head into the break.

Technology Thursday -- 75 minutes of working on our Open Ended projects.  When we return from break we will have 3 more sessions to complete research and practice their presentations.  

Assembly -- the Math-A-Thon Assembly;   Your son/daughter will bring home their donation sheets on Friday.  
Library time -- Tons of American Revolution books checked out!!

CNN Students
Welcome home for our troops!!  Today is the birthday of the Bill of Rights and they used this birthday to give some history of our Bill of Rights and then contrast it with the challenges of Christians living in Iraq.  Increased scientific information regarding our brains and the negative effects of  concussions means another professional sport, the NBA, is taking new more stringent precautions.    10 states do not allow a cellphone to be used by a driver in all situations (i.e. blue-tooth be darned, if you need to talk or text, you need to pull over and cease driving).   Many of the students thought this law was a little too much.  

Social Studies -- we completed our part about the American Revolution and the Winter of 1776.  We then took a quick quiz/test regarding the key points that we learned about the Battle of Trenton and the characters involved.  Students who took the notes that were written on the board or on smartboard were able to easily ace this quiz since it was open notebook.  .  Students who made other choices found the quiz challenging.  

U.A. time w/ Mrs. Cargo -- graphing and IXL

We ended the day with using our response devices to assess how we did our math-a-thon practice (i.e. last night’s homework).  Many of the areas the entire class kicked butt!!  Rounding to a specific place value, subtracting fractions and remembering mean, mode and median are the three areas that we had the largest learning opportunities.  
Math homework -- either 30 minutes of IXL.com or complete the logic puzzle that we started in class.  

The holiday party is from 8:30-10:30 tomorrow.  It is a Holiday Mystery!!

The day ends at 12:30.  

Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Old Native American Saying

Here is the homework for the week:

Math:
Thursday night -- 30 minutes of IXL.com or the logic puzzle

After the party on Friday morning, we are going to have a little thank you to Mrs. Silva for being our student-teacher extraordinaire the first 13 weeks of the school year.  
So we are going to put together a class book of the student’s paragraphs and a wordle of their kinds words for her.  

Also as a former brand new teacher, I remember how hard and expensive it was to build your own classroom library.  Therefore I am asking if your son or daughter could pretty please donate a used or new book by Friday.  The book does not need to be wrapped and a used  book is perfectly fine.  If we all pitch in, we will have 30+ books to get her library up and running.  Any book between the 3rd through 5th grade reading level would be awesome.