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| Corps of Discovery had many run ins with these "cuddly" creatures. |
Tomorrow PFC would highly appreciate the turning in of the Jaw’A Thon money. Remember a $20 per student average will bring chickens and Gangnam Style to DES.
We began the day with some minor assessment times, complete tests, silent reading time, and working on projects.
Then we continued heading West with our Corp of Discovery. They leave the Mandans, find a literal fork in the road, and come face to face with some of the most majestic waterfalls that you will ever see. Most exciting was reading the journal entries of the Corps as they came face to face with the North American Grizzly Bear. They had little no predator ahead of them on the food chain and they were humongous and fierce.
In our Seaman book the Corp is also heading further West after leaving the Mandans. The book spends time discussing how the entire Corp must work together to keep Seaman alive after she is bit by a beaver.
Library visit -- students used that time to either check out books or complete homework.
Math:
Dividing numbers with larger quotients and divisors.
We discussed how the “cupcake” or the “circle method” would not be advisable because few of us have the time to write out 79 circles.
The guess & check and the stack’em method would be the best options.
Also when possible the prime factorization method will help you simplify the fraction (aka the division problem).
95% of the kids claim to really understand some of the newer methods. I think if they have a choice they may actually use the guess & check or the stack’em method over the traditional style.
Here are our day of many examples.
CNN Students
We took notes and wrote about the last two days worth of news.
Wednesday’s focused a big chunk of time on historical debate mistakes.
Nixon/JFK, Ford vs Carter, “There he goes again,” “I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience,” Bush Sr. checking his watch, and Al Gore sighing numerous times.
Today’s did a great job of comparing and contrasting some of the basic economic philosophies and their view of government’s role. They then had a great piece on how the Hispanic vote is a growing force in American politics and how both parties are making efforts to increase Hispanic voter turnout and to influence their political allegiances.
We reviewed this week’s grammar lesson on plural nouns.
We also reviewed the comprehension skill of “summarizing.”
We ended the day with more work on the three branches of government. Ask them to explain “checks and balances” and what the roles of the legislative, judicial and executive branches are.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:
Math
All chapter 4 notes are found here.
Page 97 11-22 all due on Friday
Vocabulary and Spelling test on Friday.
Spelling Vocab Words found here
James Madison + Presidents...due on Friday
“Cupcakes, paper and Paste” due Friday
Free-Write due Friday
Your free-write must mention:
1. earth
2. sleeping
3. bees
4. a hand
Jaws A-Thon $$$$ is due back on Friday.
The book report requirements. I handed this out on Friday and we discussed. Students are given freedom to be as creative or as “non” creative as they want. Also if they want to do something else, just send me an email or come talk with me.
Here are the requirements.
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