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| Extra credit project by two Shark superstars!! |
Hello everyone!! I’m back.
Apologize for the delay this week. After participating in another all day 5th grade collaboration/focus on Common Core -- I had my new tablet traded out for a new one since the original one continued having various Smartboard and connectivity challenges. To make a long story short, today’s newest tablet makes the cliche “third time's a charm” a true statement.
A ton has happened since last Tuesday’s email.
On Wednesday of last week we had our first Buddies visit of the school year. The 5th graders met their kindergarten buddies, did a team building exercise and some had time to read to their buddy afterwards.
Our Google Apps are now in full operation. All 32 students have successfully signed into their account, 30 of 32 have successfully made me their coach on Khan Academy (using their Google App account), and using their Google app account 28 of 32 have signed onto www.Scootpad.com
We have also had all of the students confirm their www.ixl.com log in information and begin completing a few excercises. If your son or daughter are ahead of the homework game or if they want to push themselves --- I would recommend www.ixl.com www.scootpad.com and www.khanacademy.org
Friday we had a large Sharkathon day. The big events were showing off our Hubbard Hammerheads (made by hand by our superstar room moms), we then had our Hammerhead cheer created by our class and finally the students ran in the beautiful sunshine. This is a big fundraiser for PFC and there is also prizes for kids that bring in certain dollar amounts therefore please make sure to return those donations.
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| Mini Mr. H modeling the Hammerhead Hat!! |
Monday of this week was my 2nd Common Core 5th grade collaboration day. I will have tentatively two more similar days in February of 14. These were both well spent days as the district allowed all of the 5th grade teachers in the district to share resources and discuss best practices over two full days.
Big things coming up this week: Tomorrow night is Scoop Night at DES. I like to tell the kids it is their one opportunity to “boss me around” and “put me to work.” I will be scooping ice-cream and taking orders from 5:30 to 6 tomorrow night. So if your son or daughter wants to both enjoy some great ice cream and also tell me what to do -- show up between 5:30-6.
As I learn more about the Common Core and some of the fundamental principles behind the changes, it is clear that 5th graders are expected to read or consume media (e.g. video or music), create an inference based upon what they read/observed and then write and “defend” their analysis by referring back to what they read or consumed. Therefore we have been practicing on response to media or written words with an emphasis on “because” or “I read X, Y and watch Z and these convinced me….”
For example we watched a scientific video about a study that shows that people:
1. Are more likely to assist more attractive looking people than plain looking people. In the study the attractive people were even likely to receive money if they asked nicely while the plain looking people failed to have money donated to them.
2. People find taller people more successful, smarter and assume they hold positions of high esteem.
We wrote about what these studies said about us as a society, did they believe that people in Dublin hold these biases and what can we do to ensure this doesn’t happen.
In a case of dumb luck, through our conversations with the above study we had a case of pulling up www.snopes.com Snopes is exhibit A of the type of analysis combined with written verification that the students are expected to use. The website consistently makes reference to two or three legitimate sources when they verify if an urban legend is in fact true or false. If you want to look at this website with your kids, just be judicious, as I,myself, had to be strategic since www.snopes.com will solve a variety of rumors -- not all 5th grade topics.
FYI -- the book project is due on October 16th. That is two weeks away. Considering the book PROJECT has six unique sections, doing one-section every two nights will often produce work representative of the creativity and rationale thoughts expected of a 5th grader.
With math we have practiced and practiced generic area model and estimating. Since the generic area model can be laborious at times, the students were given 12 or less problems on Monday and Tuesday. Tonight’s lesson is on exponents so while it is 30 problems -- many of them go extremely quick.
They should have their notes on a base number and the exponent number.
If they had a brain freeze, the can watch these two videos:
I will do my very best to update again tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for remainder of the week:
Math:
page 66 and 67 1-30 due Thursday
Page 72-73 due Friday -- show your work
Nellie Bly -- read and respond with complete thoughts and answers due Thursday
Customs and Traditions due on Friday
Spelling Test is on Friday -- They need to study these words. Click here and make it a favorite. We are on week 3.
Free-Write due Friday:
Describe the “ultimate” Halloween Candy
Read at least 20 minutes every night
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