Happy Monday!
I am very pleased to announce that our classroom earned the award as the top reading class at Dublin Elementary School for the January Read A Thon. More importantly all that reading had us exercising our brains with enthusiasm and vigor!! It was a class effort because everyone had to make sacrifices and C-4 was closing the gap quickly with three readers that surpassed 9,000 minutes. Therefore it took everyone sacrificing so everyone could enjoy the thrill of victory!!
Now we are looking for people to go out and show off to grandma, grandpa, the wacky uncle, or to always willing to help godparents all the minutes that each child read and see if they will make a read a thon donation.
Today I was in an all day meeting with every single fifth grade teacher in the district. We were making “jazz” by learning about new resources that are available on line, learning new common core ideas from our math, language-arts, science and technology coaches and trading out ideas and suggestions regarding what is working with some of the common core stuff.
Therefore we had a substitute teacher today. Here is what the kids were asked to do:
1. Practice typing
2. 30 minutes of independent reading
3. Language Arts / Grammar work with www.scootpad.com
4. Math review
5. Science
and 6. Some time to work on art.
The math review was timely because we had an impromptu quiz on Friday and many students were specifically struggling with the expression and variable section. So today’s math time was working and reviewing last week’s lessons and last Friday’s work.
Students were given 45+ minutes to work on the workbook pages and the rest was to be completed at home.
If you don’t see the four pages, you can sort by date and the four pages uploaded on 2/3/14 are the ones.
Once again we could use a donation of tissues. We had at least two kids out everyday last week due to illness and five on one day. Therefore the noses are running and the tissue is being consumed. Any donation would be highly appreciated.
Field trip survey -- we like to ensure that all three classes have equal opportunity to attend our field trips therefore we need to take a proactive look into seeing if we have enough drivers for our next two field trips. The S.J. Tech one is going to be significantly different from their 4th grade one since they will be attending and participating in a classroom laboratory session most of the day. However that is just over two weeks away. The Intel one is amazing however it does take drivers to make that one happen as well.
If you can drive either to the S.J. Tech Museum and/or Intel please let us know ASAP or we may have to cancel one or both. Click here to let us know.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
“You know you have read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” Paul Sweeney
Homework for the week:
Math:
11-4 Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators due on Thursday 256-257 1-33 odds only
5-5 Order of Operations due on Friday 124-125 2-34 evens only
Language Arts:
Seaman -- Describe two characters from the story so far. Each person should have at least one paragraph each. Your audience is someone who has never read the story. For each character please use at least two references (quoting/paraphrasing and page number(s)) when making specific descriptions of each character. due Friday
Non-Fiction reading & response due Thursday
Persuasive Writing Work due nightly beginning Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Science Homework -- assigned for Monday and Tuesday evening. However I was not here today so I am unsure what it is.
Return the money for the Read A Thon on Friday
Read for 20 minutes per night.
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