Mr. Hubbard's Class: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, Week 34 and Day 144

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014, Week 34 and Day 144

Happy beautiful spring day.

Many things to discuss today.

1st off our class will have the first of our three Common Core “practice” tests (i.e. the Common Core are all practice for the 2013/2014 school year) tomorrow morning. Students were encouraged to not stress out and really use this year’s testing to discover what Common Core is asking of them. So no need for snacks, early bedtime, etc. Just maybe ask them how they are feeling about the process and possibly ask them tomorrow what it was like (similar/different?).

2nd I sent an end of the year email about today’s meeting after school.

Click here to see the list of activities at the end of the year.

Click here if you would like to volunteer to help out with some of the end of the year events.

Your son/daughter can get cool stuff and earn $$ for our PFC. How? Check out the on-line auction at www.dublinpfc.org

I’m taking a winner out to Vals for lunch.

Mr. Franklin and I are going to play 2 on 3 in basketball.

May 2nd, just 2 days prior to “May the 4th be with you” Day -- the DES guys (Mr. Franklin, Mr. Holbach and myself) are hosting a Star Wars and Beer (rootbeer that is) viewing in C-5.

We completed our Lewis and Clark reading today therefore just one more project. Students are going to make a timeline using a Google Map type site to choose & describe the Top 10 events in their journey.

Except for those that have missed time due to illness, pretty much everyone everyone has completed the fraction exam. I’ll print out results tomorrow. Students that require more practice and re-teach will have that happen and other students will be allowed to work on taking the fractions deeper. FYI -- the fraction exam used Common Core type questions w/ few simple choose a,b,c or d. Rather they asked multiple ways to solve problems and fraction knowledge had to be applied.

March is autism awareness month. Our DES team puts together every year a empathy and sensory awareness room where the students can get a brief overview of some the challenges that someone with autism much cope with on a daily basis. Some of our students donate many many recesses towards working with these students so they also helped work in the room with the parent volunteers. Ask your son/daughter about what they learned today.

Molecule discussion on….I have a great book called “The Field Guide to the Invisible” written b y Wayne Biddle. It has a great mini chapter on gas that comes from our bodies. So between giggles we discussed chemical reactions in our digestive system, making homemade yogurt, fecal transplants, what gases make up a “typical” fart, what in our body creates them, and finally what are “live cultures.” We also found it hilarious that a group of scientists were allowed to study male farts. I would have loved to hear that funding presentation. Ask your son/daughter what their studies found was the avg. number produced per day?

Dead President report…..big due date this Friday. Part 1 is due. I am expecting a “minimum” of three complete researched paragraphs. If your son/daughter misplaced their directions they can be found on the front page of my webpage.

Therefore the next five weeks students should be studying, taking notes and working on this Dead President report in the evening time.

They should also continue working on their 50 states and capitals. Click here for the actual maps and lists that we will be using. Also if you have new websites or apps to share that help you study please let me know.

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

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