Happy Tuesday.
For the students this is an extremely short week. They only have Monday-Wednesday and yet it is also a collaboration week as well therefore all three days end at 2:00 p.m.
What are we working on during such a short week?
Math continues to plug forward. Yesterday the students did factoring trees and worked on recognizing those prime numbers. Today the students are adding and subtracting using fraction strips. As a class we worked together on using the fraction strips, then decomposing the expression to solve and finally just converting the mixed numbers into improper fractions. The focus tonight was using the fraction strips. Students were given a very eye catching multi-color one and a black & white one that they can write on.
Other math notes:
- Students struggled during last Friday’s math test specifically with the concept of (X,Y) coordinates and graphing them.
Therefore if your child is ahead of the game or bored on Thursday or Friday, challenge them to master these IXL concepts:
- Students also continue to slightly struggle with rounding to the correct place value. So they receive a math&art handout that has them practice with rounding to the correct place value.
Once again if they are bored on Thursday or Friday, challenge them to master these IXL concepts:
Narrative -- Over the last four school days the students have been working with Ms. Mitchell on the concept of “main idea.” On Monday they completed a lesson concerning main idea regarding the lifespan of a star.
Also over the recent times we have been reading examples, watching short video examples and discussing narratives. Therefore today we utilized our notes on the life cycle of a star and we are going to make a star narrative. A star is going to share out their life via a narrative essay. Ms. Mitchell found a great way to kill two birds with one lesson. So look out and probe your young “star” about the story they are going to tell about their life.
Circle time on Monday -- students shared their stories regarding their ancestors and students also explained where outside of the USA they would want to visit. It was unique to have some students know deeply about their heritage while some students weren’t sure where their parents were from let alone further ancestors. As far as places to visit many students are looking forward to visiting France or Australia.
Vocab -- a second week of antonyms. Students are working on words that have opposite meanings. These words can also be found on https://www.spellingcity.com/TeacherHubbard/
Students will need access to a decent dictionary or online access in order to successfully complete these weekly vocabulary assignments. I had two students that sit directly in front of me today miss many of the vocabulary challenges and they explained that they “guessed” what the words mean. This nightly homework is intended to be slightly challenging in order for them to learn how to research and learn what the words mean.
Ideally the homework will be light and I am not assigning any type of extra Thursday or Friday homework. Rather students should use that time on Thursday and Friday to make significant progress on their Book Project. We are extremely close to having it due.
We are competing with schools in our district and in the trivalley tomorrow -- sanely and safely we are encouraging students to walk, scooter, bike, skateboard, inline skating, unicycle, horeseback, llama, carpool, etc to school tomorrow.
They would also really like your Jaws A Thon $$ returned tomorrow.
Finally the book order arrived on Monday evening. Some students thought it had arrived sooner than that. I honestly have no incentive to hoard or hold onto the books. I promise to diseminate them as soon as they arrive. While listening to the L.A. Dodgers lose tonight, I organized and placed onto everyone’s desk their book orders. Look for our November book order catalogs to come home soon they each will have a special: “Purchase $10 in books and receive $5 off an additional book” coupon . Thank you to everyone that purchased on this first order. I was able to order $20 in books for the classroom and we qualified for a collection of scary creepy Halloweeney type books. All in all we received over 12 free books to add to our classroom library!!!
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
“My name is gossip…I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives.”
- Jerry West - Hall of Fame basketball player, logo of the NBA, and GM of the Lakers
Homework:
Math:
232-234 1-25 all due Wednesday
“Blazing Arrows” math & art with rounding due Wednesday
Vocabulary
Page 16 and 17 (w/ the writing part) due Wednesday
Vocab. test is on Wednesday
https://www.spellingcity.com/TeacherHubbard/ vocabulary activities STRONGLY recomended
Free-write “A free topic”
Write about whatever your heart and mind desires.
one full page or 20 minutes whatever comes first
hand written or turned in on https://www.chalkup.co/dash
Walk and Roll to school on Wednesday
Jaws A Thon -- donation money due on Wednesday
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