Monday, February 11, 2013

Monday #99 2012-2013

Day 99 of week 24

Yes, we still do Valentine’s cards in 5th grade!!  
Rules:
1.  Socialism / communism rules -- bring one card for everyone or don’t bring any cards (all or nothing).
2.  You may either

a.  Label each card individually with the person’s name
b.  Have your son/daughter sign the card and just bring the 27 cards.  They will randomly distribute the cards.  
3.  No extra “special”  cards, flowers or gifts given to a special student.  People trying to make a “love” connection with a fellow peer need to do that after school.  
True story, I had a young lad try to court a 5th grade girl who did not feel the same way.  He did this early in the school day and it was embarrassing for him since he was now stuck with the person & his friends for the remainder of the school day.  
4.  Please no extra candy for myself -- I am still going strong on my diet (now 62+ pounds lost since 1/1/2011!) and among other things I give up candy/sweets every Lenten season.

Today’s events:
P.E.  -- hockey on the blacktop.

Spelling pretest
Here are the words for this week.

Assessments / chapter 12 retakes / Famous American report research / IXL and Scootpad

Math:
Prepare for tomorrow’s Chapter 6 test
Here are the notes for the chapter.

Practice on these skills with IXL

Respond to literature --
We looked at the recipe style of creating a response to literature paragraph.  
Students will be completing a paragraph a night for homework this week.
They have the handout.  I will scan and include w/ tomorrow’s email out.

Mrs. Cho is teaching about % = fractions = decimals
25% = ¼ = .25

We planned for the remainder of the week.  
We also viewed Famous American Hall of Fame so kids can see the effort that goes into a Famous American report.

Sorry for the lack of communication last week.  It was a crazy week with after school commitments that had me at the District Office.  

The district hopes to move fast on deciding the future technology purchases for elementary, middle and high school.  Therefore our class will be test piloting Google Chrome notebooks.  There will be more details to follow.  We will be the only 5th grade class test piloting these in the district so this will be a big test.  

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 150-151 all due on Tuesday
Test on chapter 6 is due on Tuesday
Page 154-155 9-31 all due Wednesday
Page 157-158 14-34 all due Thursday

Vocab work is all due on Wednesday
Here are the words for this week.
5 vocabulary cards
P.B. 174,179, & 183

Grammar due Thursday
P.B. 184,185, and 186

Famous American proposal is due on Wednesday.
Here is the link.

Reminder -- the book project is due on February 28th!!
I have personally met with students in small groups and some people I gave high-fives since they were about done.  Others were causing me anxiety because they had not yet finished their book.  
These projects are meant to be extensively worked on.  That is why I assigned 1 per trimester.  
Here are the book project instructions

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