Sorry for the almost week long delay in responding. I developed an ear-infection on Tuesday night/Wednesday so I was out ill on Wednesday, had to play catch up while not feeling 100%.
Here is today’s low down along with this week’s learning objectives.
Quick point: my goal this week is to be realistic regarding Halloween, the festivities that go with the holiday and also the negative effects that go with a sugar-based diet. Therefore students do not have Thursday night homework while they also received additional time in class today (35 minute homework time + the usual 45 minutes after lunch to plan out the week & work). As it frequently plays out, many students used that time to their advantage by asking me clarifying questions and staying on task. While a smaller %had to be consistently reminded to not socialize and get their work done. Therefore if your son/daughter has not completed 60+ minutes of work already you can know how they chose to spend their time.
P.E. today -- they are volleyballing it right now.
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Topics they wrote and discussed: Hurricane Sandy, Tsunami watch on Sunday due to a Canadian earthquake, some biography information about both presidential candidates, electoral college and a Supreme Court case where owners of copyrights would lessen a person’s ability to resell books, music, cars and DVDs.
States and Capitals -- study guide was given out. Students, once again, had the entire process explained and the actual test that they will take was shown on the smartboard. “Repeat to remember; remember to repeat” is the recipe to hold information into the long term memory bank. Therefore a little bit of studying each week will make May so much less stressful.
Seaman
Today we read the complete chapter that discusses how the Corp barely survived making it through the Bitterroot Mountains. We finished this tense chapter discussing & reading about the “diarrhea” challenges the team dealt with after hardly eating for 12 days and being feed root vegetables and berries.
Math:
Students have to complete a mini project where they add up the total calories for a catered meal. The final task is to create their own meal and calculate the sum calories. Due on Wednesday
Today we had time to work in pairs and practice for tomorrow’s chapter 5 test. So tonight’s homework is the continuation of the practice test they received today. That does need to be returned tomorrow.
Electoral College -- there is talk that we may have one candidate earn the most votes of the population while the other candidate earns the most electoral college votes. Therefore this week we are reading and learning about the electoral college.
Here is the magical formula:
Electoral College = # of Senators + # of House of Representatives + 3 electors from the District of Columbia
Total electoral college votes = 100 (50 states * 2 senators per state) + (435 House of Representatives)+ 3 electors from the District of Columbia Therefore a total of 538 votes.
Therefore it takes 270 to win a majority.
Operation: Less homework on Halloween night
Students had 35 minutes to work on homework prior to lunch.
Get ready to plan for the week and also begin working on homework. We got down to business and students had 45 minutes.
Homework for the week:
Math
Math Practice Test due on Tuesday
Math Test is on Tuesday
Here are the notes for the chapter 5 review.
Topic 5 Performance Handout “Food & Meal” due on Wednesday morning.
page 195 1-24 all due Wednesday
page 199-200 1-29 all due Friday
Icosahedron due on Friday “exponents”
Vocabulary work due on TUESDAY (special day so we don’t do it on Halloween)
5 mini poster cards + P.B. 98, 103 and 107
Here are the words.
Science due on Tuesday
all vocab cards are due + study for Thursday’s vocabulary test
Comprehension due on Friday
P.B. 101 and 102 *pull out to turn in
Grammar due Friday
P.B. 108, 109, and 110
Free-Write due Friday:
Describe a Halloween and world where candy and sugar do not exist.
Spelling Test and Vocab test on Friday
Here are the words.
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