Day 75 of this school year.....
It was nice to be back with all of the kids today.
We started the day off with CNN students. The big issues discussed were the Iowa Caucuses, Kinm Jong-il and a series of arson in Los Angeles is causing damage.
We started a new thing today, students were given four questions before watching the segment and asked to take notes and pay attention looking for the answers. I also modeled on the board the notes from the segment that would help them answer the questions. They are then given 10 minutes to answer the four questions.
This achieves three big initiatives -- daily writing practice using inference skills, note-taking skills and ensuring everyone is paying attention to the video.
Circle-Time: Students shared what was their favorite gift that they or their family received and if they had a new year’s resolution. It sounded like the students all had a great winter break and shared great times with their families. I can’t decide what the best gift was though, the IPAD II or a new baby sister?
Science with Mrs. Wilmott -- she broke a bone(s) in her left foot so you can ask your son/daughter for the “unofficial” story.
Homework tonight: get your test signed by your parent and do pages 10, 12 and 13 in their science book.
Spelling pre-test
Here are the words for the week.
Math:
Division and Multiplication with fractions
Click here for today’s math notes.
More great resources:
Brainpop
Khan academy on multiplying fractions
25 minutes to plan out the week and write down our weekly assignments.
They ended the day with Mrs. Cargo’s U.A. class.
Field trip on January 31st to the Lawrence Livermore Lab’s Visitors Center
Here are all of the forms that you need to fill out.
It is an easy field trip. Pick up kids near the beginning of the school day, drive to the Visitors Center, either stay and enjoy the presentation & science experiments or go get coffee and just be back by 11:45’ish so we can drive back to Dublin Elementary.
Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard
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"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." ~Benjamin Franklin
Homework for the week:
Science -- get recent science test signed and do pages 10, 12 and 13Math:
Students working ahead need to let me know which assessments to assign them and also put in 30 minutes of www.ixl.com
Other students:
page 270 1-37 odds due Wed.
page 273 1-31 odds due Thursday
page 276-277 1-25 all due Friday
Spelling and Vocab -- all due on Thursday
Here are the words for the week.
5 challenge notecards or 5 mini-posters due on Thursday
page 197 and 206
Grammar due on Friday
P.B. 207, 208 and 209
Free-Write due Friday (either realistic or pure fiction)
2012 will be know as the year I ….because......
Special Thursday PE this week.
First PEP lesson will be this Friday afternoon
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