Tuesday, January 27, 2015

While our class has been passing around our germs, I was out yesterday since my little guy was the one running a slight fever.   I’ve had a few people concerned about the overall health kids in C-5.  I can assure you that we are getting sick at normal rates and no one in our class has acquired whooping cough.  

To be on the safe side we are wiping down our desks with disinfectant wipes at the end of the school day.  We also encourage recommended hand washings and discouraging sharing of each other’s pencils/pens.  

Regarding last night’s math homework there was a disconnect between what was assigned/recommended and what was written out for the kids.   The 2nd lesson was supposed to be a lesson on estimating therefore students were to round numbers reasonably and then quickly estimate answers.  Many students heard the substitute teacher ask them to do that AND ALSO solve the real answer.  Something that would entail an additional 60 minutes of work for those not too fast with large multiplication.  

Today we are crystal clear with the expectations and the students know to focus on the lesson of estimating with division and numbers ending in 0, 00, or 000.   

Homework:  108-109 11-30 all (5-1) and 110-111 9-26 (all) (5-2)

Students had their first brand new rotation with Ms. Katzman’s science.  They will be covering the human body, test prep (5th graders will be taking the “old school” multiple choice science test this year) and some engineering.  

We reviewed this week’s vocabulary words and had a short discussion on who was William Shakespeare.  Many students had never heard of him or knew what he did, however three kids were able to piece together that he wrote:  Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.  

Students did make it to the library so they were able recheck out their dead American books or check out new ones.  

Students are playing basketball in PE and there was a short list of names sent back to the class because some struggled to play nice.  

Tomorrow we will spend some time reviewing each other’s Dead American report.  I am also going to give a lesson on how to create a bibliography.   A large portion of the students feel they have written the main part of their report therefore they should now be putting together their bibliography to go along with the report.  Students are also going to have an opportunity to have myself and their peers read through reports.  

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."  Robert Hughes

Homework for the week:

Math

108-109  11-30 all  5-1 due on Wednesday

110-111 9-26 all 5-2 due on Wednesday

134-135 9-42 all 6-1 due on Thursday

36-38 9-45 all 2-3 due on Friday

41-42 9-26 all 2-4 due on Friday

Dead American project…

proofreading, ensuring there is enough information in each section and working bibliography

**in many cases spending 20 minutes per evening on this

Vocabulary

page 40 due on Wednesday

page 41 due on Thursday

Spelling and Vocabulary “our greatest hits”

Students were given hard copies and the words on in Spelling City

25 most misspelled words through the first 11 spelling weeks

25 most missed vocabulary words through the first 11 vocab weeks

That test is on February 6th.

Students should use spelling city to practice the vocab and spelling