Tuesday aka Tech Tuesday
Today we had to make up for some lost learning time so we had five book project presentations. The presentations have run the gamut so far from homemade games, a recreation of an ancient game, tests, word searches, crossword puzzles, radio advertisements, live Amazon book reviews, many brand new book covers, and some detailed timelines!!
Some students are really getting the idea of referencing specific quotes, events and parts of the book when they are explaining something that made them think or made them have an opinions. For many others they receive an email from me and offer suggestions regarding how they can go back and improve upon their initial grade. I joke with the students that these projects are like zombies, they don’t go away easily. Students not earning 3’s in all six categories are strongly encouraged to make the improvements and resubmit the parts (and only the parts below a 3) to me prior to their Student Led Conference time. If they don’t show you my email or the rubric, send me an email and I’ll forward it to you.
We also reviewed last night’s lesson on multiplication with decimals and estimation. Today’s lesson is similar it is division with decimals and estimation. So we are practicing the easier concepts of multiplication and division of decimals using the scaffolding method of strategic estimation.
We spent the last part of the day working on our month math project. This month’s project is all about decimal addition and subtraction as the students are trying to make a specific purchase. It truly is a puzzle to find the exact combination and it is waaay more fun and rewarding to watch them struggle than test prepping or curriculum associates. Some of their debates in their smaller teams and how they go about trying to solve this has been revealing and I’m assuming enlightening for everyone in the room. I have had to bite my tongue as to not just “show them” how to solve it. Ask your son and daughter how they doing and what they are doing to try and solve the problem.
In the computer lab today they kids put in 15 to 20 minutes of typing practice. The district has purchased an on-line typing tutor program for all students K-12 however that purchase & rollout has been taking a while. Therefore students are encouraged to go to this link and practice on the various typing games:
Then students worked on place value with www.ixl.com and finally Reading & Language Arts with www.scootpad.com With scootpad the first unit is all about verb tenses, comma usage, and how to use various resources to find information.
As a reminder please see my email with the link to sign up for a student-led conference.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:
Math:
Halloween Sales (handout) due on Thursday
Page 160-161 1-8 and 14-17 due on Wednesday
- original problem
- show estimated numbers
- show estimated quotient (use the guess check or stack method)
Page 87 10-32 even problems due on Thursday
- original problem
- show estimated numbers
- solve quotient (use guess check or stack)
Page 142 9-20 all due on Friday
- original problem
- estimated numbers
- solve for the product using original numbers (use the generic area model).
Reading and History:
Comanch Horesemen due on Wednesday
Bartering for Basics due Thursday
Plan on Common Core “product” homework on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening. For Tuesday evening students were given a short article. The just needed to read, highlight and find words that they don’t understand. Here is the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-ravitch/common-core-fallacy_b_3809159.html
Read 20 minutes every night
Free write due on Friday -- scariest thing in my life was…………….
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