Day #17**I forgot to hand out the passwords to set up your www.engrade.com and www.classdojo.com accounts. Many of you have already set up your engrade accounts, but the classdojo needs the paperwork to be set up. I will send those home w/ Friday’s stuff. If you can’t wait, this will have your code for classdojo.com
The shark bytes are still on my desk. Here is what you missed:
Assessments, silent reading, www.ixl.com, and working on Thursday evening homework.
Seaman -- students read some more and then we did our first reading comprehension work related to the story. 18 students finished and 8 students have some additional homework. Click here to see the three questions.
Library visit.
Students had an opportunity to find their:
non-fiction or
realistic fiction or
historical fiction book for the first book presentation.
I showed many kids this great resource for discovering books:
Click here to search for books by genre, award winners, age range, etc
If you have an Alameda County library card, you can go here
Once signed in, look up books from the recommended reading lists, ask to put them on hold and within 48 hours you can go pick up your books that are waiting for you in the front of the library.
Math
More work with larger multiplication.
Here is what is slowing us down. Students are not using the nice blue boxes on their graph paper. Students are doing a great job of either decomposing numbers or using the generic area model. However when they line up all of the products and them calculate the end sum, they are making mistakes. They are not working neatly and that is leading to errors. No one is lost however many people are not caring enough to get it right the first time.
USE THE LINES ON THE GRAPH PAPER!!
Here are our notes from today.
Which Clown -- students worked in teams of 5 and shared out stories when they were wrongly accused, why teachers make mistakes and how the protagonist could have responded differently or next.
John Adams -- like our 2nd president’s presidency, the activity proved to be edifying yet mostly uneventful.
CNN Students Things that they wrote about and we discussed:
What is satire? Endeavour is our last space shuttle, how are we going to get to the space station? What are we doing with the shuttles? Texting while driving = deaths and you drive worse than a drunk driver. Ask your son/daughter what part of the brain can not effectively handle multi-tasking.
More art -- we are doing our 2nd week learning to draw a dog. We will be doing this for four weeks and we will track what we create, our ability to learn/improve from the previous week and most importantly our efforts to improve.
Cold Stone fundraiser on Thursday night.
I am scooping from 6:oo-6:45 It is a great opportunity for your son/daughter to show up and “make me work.” I told it was their chance to give me orders and have me mix 3 or 4 challenging toppings.
Homework for the week:
Math
Page 64-65 3-19 all due Friday.
Here are all the chapter 3 notes.
Here is a great walk through of the multiplication this week.
Here are some model examples of what is coming up.
Language Arts
Spelling Words and Challenge Words.
spelling and vocab test is on Friday
P.B. 6 & 7 and 14 & 15 due on Friday
Grizzly Bear due on Friday
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