Today the students had P.E. along along with all of our other learning and day went by super quick.
As a whole the class is stepping up their game and we had 21 of the 23 kids today return their day planner signed and reading verified. Students also worked independently on the daily math review and we are having tons of great conversations about fractions and “the power of 1.”
After PE -- we did tons of review and setting expectations for our weekly non-fiction science/social studies reading. Therefore we took last night’s reading titled Nomad to Farmer and we reviewed acceptable and exceptional written responses.
In review our best practices these were the five big keys to successfully completing this weekly task:
- complete sentences
- restate the question when answering the question
- number the paragraphs making it easier to explain to the reader where you pulled your information from
- when in doubt use the word “because…..” and explain your thoughts
- “bake your answer” -- take all of the individual parts that you read and bake(create) your unique opinion or thoughts
Math
We made an emphasis to allocate more time for examples and take questions since many of the students shared that math took them circa 45 minutes to complete last night’s homework. Therefore as a class we answered about 10 of the questions due tonight.
Ask your son/daughter how the phrase “until the cows come home” relates to decimals.
**Math Notebook -- your son/daughter should have the notes on the cows come home, 1/10 and X 10, and making ⅖ into 40/100 by multiplying ⅖ by 20/20.
Our district’s IT department took on the herculean task of creating for all DUSD students new Microsoft accounts for logging into our network servers and also synchronizing all of our @dublinusd.net student accounts (google apps). Therefore our computer lab can be up and running ASAP. As the school’s technology lead our class was the guinea pigs and we tried out the new computers in the lab and verified the Microsoft accounts worked and that we could once again sign into our modified google apps. We found a few hiccups in the conversions however by the end 21 of the 23 students were able to log on successfully.
Room mom request….
Mrs. Wanzenried would like to set up a Shutterfly website for organizing classroom parties and making it easy to set up communication with our parents. Unless I hear otherwise I am going to share with her your email addresses. If you would rather not have the email shared with her, please let me know ASAP (let us know by Thursday at 3:30). She and I both promise not to spam you.
Quick survey (honestly super quick):
I would like to gauge how realistically and fair it would be to “assign” some homework that requires online access.
We live in amazing times and we have a resource of websites that not only teach lessons, they have learning based games and they track how effective the students are using the tools (most websites below will report out time spent on website, % of information learned and some will make recommendations towards more challenging or remedial work). If a student can access these learning websites while at home it further increases my abilities to offer them unique individualized learning opportunities.
As an example in a recent school year I had a student working primarily on beginning level algebra. Using khanacademy the student was able to complete a series of assessments and complete modules and the website allow the student to continue progressing in math curriculum until they reached algebra. I was able to verify time spent, movie lessons watched/learned, percentage correct, skills mastered and assist when necessary.
Similarly using Scootpad’s common core aligned grammar, comprehension and vocabulary lessons, by the end of the year I one student working on 8th grade language arts curriculum and three other students mastering 7th grade curriculum. Similarly the websites reporting allows parents and myself to know exactly what skills have been mastered and which skills I should focus in-class lessons on.
Here is a list of the websites that have proven useful and that we subscribe either as a district or PFC supplies:
www.pearsonrealize.com (our school’s official math website)
www.onlinelearningexchange.com (our school’s official social studies website)
www.scootpad.com (3rd-5th grade grammar website)
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/ The district is looking into purchasing a subscription to high quality streaming science, math and social studies videos.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.”
Thomas Edison
Homework:
Complete sentences!! Reference back to the information that you read and state paragraph number.
Read 30 minutes every night.
*Ideally it is your book project book
Have your day-planner signed every evening.
Math (place value):
page 8 and 9 1-31 all due on Wednesday
page 12 and 13 1-34 all due Thursday
page 14 and 15 1-26 all due Friday
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