Thank you so much for all of the kind birthday wishes, gifts and sincere kindness today. It was so “energizing” to receive all of my snacks and more of my “superpower” secret (aka energy drinks). The decorations were awesome. I also enjoyed my yummy Mr. Pickle’s sandwich. I plan on wearing my new shirt tomorrow during the field trip.
Tomorrow is the field trip. The bureaucracy gods were on our sides and four people were able to initiate and successfully complete all of the herculean paperwork associated with driving on a field trip in the year 2015. See it is not just the solving of mathematics that have become burdensome and unnecessarily expanded in schools.
Very important please have your son/daughter pack a lunch and/or snack!!
Today besides celebrating my birthday?
As a 5th grade we had some kids review math fact fluency, some kids practice “high stakes” multiplication arithmetic, and some kids completed math projects.
We completed three math lessons today. Three? One was understanding math properties which entails taking down their definitions and then understanding what their superpowers are. The other lessons involved multiplying by 10,100, 1000 and with numbers that end in zero. We had practiced that significantly earlier in the year so that should be a review. Regardless students were given 35 minutes to work on their homework.
We used President Obama’s state of the Union to review what we learned about the Constitution back in September. A funny observation about the post quiz? Students remember that the president has the power to use the veto and that the legislative branch makes the laws. However they struggled with the definition of “checks and balances.” Something as drastic as the “veto” sticks in their heads but the idea of each branch canceling each other out is not dramatic enough.
At the end of the day we had circle time, enjoyed those Friday cookies and shared out any birthday-family traditions people may have. As a youth my two main traditions were one, my sister and I are exactly one day apart so one year one of us had a full on birthday party and the other had a best friend(s) sleep over/pizza thing. Then we would flip it the next year. The second tradition was my mom always made her “famous” beef stroganoff dish.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Homework for the week:
Math:
Page 62-63 (1-32 all) Lessons 3-1 due Friday
Page 64-65 (2-28 even) Lessons 3-2 due Friday
Page 66-67 (16-34 all) Lessons 3-3 due Friday
Mrs. Cargo’s Science:
Sunrise/Sunset - 1/23
The Brightest Sky 1/23
Changing Shadows 1/23
Vocab Week 11: Words from literature
page 37 due Friday
page 38 due Friday
Rough Draft of the Dead American Report due on Friday.
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