We began the day recapping what we learned about the election. For some it was a time to share out, express their frustrations while for others it was a time to rejoice. It was also a time to correct some “facts” there were being disseminated by both young conservatives & young progressives.
We also discussed our local results regarding some of the propositions, school board winners, city council winners and how our newest House of Representative is a local DUSD alumnus.
CNN Students
It was all about the election results, capturing how people voted (literally the machines), a great helping of presidential trivia and finally some classic old-school president acceptance speeches.
Students also listened to this podcast from the Freakonomics authors about “should a rational person vote?”
Click here to listen.
The students then did a write about it where they had to answer the question:
Why should you vote? Does voting even matter?
or
Should voting be mandatory like in Australia?
Math
More venn diagram practice to find the GCF.
Also tonight’s homework was all about the Singapore method. So as an entire class we completed problems 1-10. Therefore students should have very little math homework tonight.
Here are our notes on last night’s homework.
The notes on today’s homework was done using the overhead so students were STRONGLY encouraged to write, create and follow along as we completed the homework.
Vocab work:
We reviewed this week’s vocabulary lessons.
Students worked in teams and then submitted their best vocabulary card and then I had to guess it.
There was a tie between the baby chicks and the puppies for first place.
Reading Comprehension:
We graded our work on “main idea” and summarizing. Both areas of reading comprehension are key points in the may testing and used in the non-fiction text books they will use in middle school.
We then graded and discussed the Who Can Vote and How We Vote.
We ended our short day with some Seaman reading. Today Old Man Toby took off without payment when things started to look pretty bleak up in the Bitterroot Mountains.
Thursday night is the Soul Shoppe for parents night at Dublin Elementary.
Friday the day ends at 2:06.
FYI --- Tuesday was all about the election day. All of the 5th grade classes that have me for history and social studies had the chance to vote in private. The election among our 5th graders was just as class as the real one with President Obama earning a 2 vote victory with 38% to 36% with Roseanne Barr and her “Peace and Freedom” party earning 10% of the vote.
Here is our big election day technology day.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:
Math
206-207 1-13 all due Thursday
208-209 1-14 all due Friday
Holiday Glow due Friday
Optical Illusion due Friday
What to do is due Thursday
Double Action is due Friday
A free Free-Write is due Friday
Grammar due on Thursday
P.B. 123,124, and 125
Science Student Guide
The “other” 1/2 completed by Thursday
Test will be on Friday in C-5
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