European debt -- we talked about interrelated economies and how our complex relationships with other countries means that Europe’s challenges = USA challenges; Iran vs. USA -- Iran claims that they caught a stealth drone of ours. We brainstormed synonyms for stealth. We reply “liar, liar, pants on fire.” Thailand’s King has a birthday and their people use it as an opportunity to rejoice. US Postal system costs tax payers tons of money every year, drastic cuts or change in service expectations will be forthcoming in 2012. We discussed the human costs of Iraq as our troops begin to leave the country (4,400+ USA deaths and 32,000 physical injuries).
Open Ended Projects -- we allowed about 1/3rd of the class to put in 45 minutes of research on their open-ended project. The other ⅔ received extra PE time while helping our community out.
First step is to complete a project proposal and get it approved by myself. Click here for the proposal --- due on THURSDAY..
Click here for a list of project ideas.
Project must cover a topic related to American/North America history that occurs between 1650-1800.
Theme 3
More review and discussion regarding the Theme 3 study guide.
Cause / Effect; Following Directions and more discussion about fact or opinion
Click here for the study guide
Science -- students are supposed to do pages in their soft cover book and also bring back their recent science grades signed.
Math:
More work with fractions. We continue to work on mastering how to subtract and add with mixed numbers. There are two primary ways to do it and the examples that we did can be found on Monday and Tuesday’s notes.
Click here for those notes.
We had a special 25 minute presentation by Dr. Grier the principal at Wells Elementary. He gave a great presentation on his expectations, what students should do to prepare themselves for next year and he took their questions. It was pretty awesome that he choose to spend time with all three of our 5th grade classes this year.
U.A. rotation -- students spent time on www.ixl.com
A few people asked, Devin is doing fine. He caught the 24 hour flu bug that is going around his pre-school. He took a four hour nap, ate some dinner and then went back to sleep. Today he is back to giving mom a run for her money :)
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Ron Hubbard
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Here is the homework for the week:
Math:
260 1-22 all *must show Venn diagrams due Wednesday
262-263 1-14 all due Thursday
264-265 1-14 all due Friday
Free-Write:
Write from the perspective of a reindeer that just helped Santa deliver toys to every boy and girl on planet earth (estimated 1.4 billion children on planet earth with is about 270 kids per second)
Theme 3 test will be on Thursday
Students should “study” for this test by reviewing the concepts and in some cases committing to memory the ideas being assessed.
Click here for the study guide
Today we began working on our first open ended project of the school year. Students will have eight one-hour sessions to think up, plan out, create, and practice presenting their final project. Students “may” work on this project at home however most the work should occur during their eight one-hour sessions.
First step is to complete a project proposal and get it approved by myself. Click here for the proposal --- due on Thursday.
Click here for a list of project ideas.
Project must cover a topic related to American/North America history that occurs between 1650-1800.
Compare and Contrast Essay on First Thanksgiving versus their own Thanksgiving is due Thursday. Four paragraphs is a minimum expectation.
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