Glorious Monday.
FYI -- our DES Jaws-a-thon has begun. On Friday we were short some envelopes and donation forms. . I promise to get those to you ASAP. The DES Jaws-a-thon is a great way to encourage your son/daughter to get moving which increases blood to the brain. It is also a wonderful fundraiser for our PFC.
Common Core:
Also no outdoor recess or activities due to the lowered air quality caused by the Mount Diablo fires.
Today we continued from last week with some minor assessments. We have just about completed our initial assessments therefore expect soon for us to have more inspirational learning time within our school days.
Maniac Magee was a great read today. Maniac is dealing with being teased because he is a white person living in a predominantly black neighborhood. Eventually the bullying escalates into a vandalism incident where his it is made known that he is not wear people believe he should be. Therefore we had several great opportunities to write and discuss:
1. Why do people tease others that are different?
2. Student’s opinions & experiences about race and racial divides.
**These are great topics to ask your son/daughter about what they feel about this.
Math:
We did an extensive review of the chapter 1 key concepts.
The main the goal is to identify place value up to the hundred billions and also identify smaller place value into the thousandths place.
Notes of what we practiced today can be found in today’s notes.
Social Studies and Language Arts --
We discussed the beauty of the Constitution. The difference between democracy and a republic. We used American Idol as a loose example of the difference between choosing democratically and electing a representative to vote for you..
Notes of what we discussed can be found in today’s notes.
Practice with being organized and planning out our week.
Upon returning from lunch students were shown a role-modeled version of me completing a lucky student’s day planner. I showed them how to write and organize their day planner so they will know how to attack this week’s learning opportunities.
Students were then given 25 minutes to begin working on tonight’s and this week’s homework.
**Students were strongly encouraged to begin working ahead, especially in social studies so the homework could be appropriately dispersed throughout the week.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:
Math:
Handout Topic 1 a due Tuesday
*test and turning in your math notebook is on Tuesday
Page 25 1-26 all due on Wednesday
Page 28-29 1-29 all due Thursday
Page 30-31 1039 all due Friday
Blazing Arrow due Wednesday
Language Arts and History:
The Female Moses due Thursday
Social studies book: 167-170 due Wednesday
Social studies book: 171-174 due Friday **this represents a change from earlier today
Vocab Cards due on Friday:
legislative branch, congress, executive branch, veto, judicial branch, federalism, suffrage, safeguard, patriotic and National Anthem
Free-Write due Friday:
What’s something you’ve won and how did you win it?
Read 20 minutes every evening
parent autograph
Brain Week Work: (due on Wed., Thursday and Friday)
What did you learn about the human brain and how will this make you a better student?
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