Monday, September 14, 2015

Stanford's Educator Night on Saturday

If I don’t send out an email and you are curious what happened that day or what should your son or daughter be working on, you can ask them to show you that day’s hyperlink document. They will need to be signed into their Google Classroom account.  Their google classroom will always have the most up to date assignments and what they did that day however this is a rough outline of what we worked on today.

You can get about a 80% look at what we did by looking at our daily game plan.  You can also try accessing it here.

• The times do change and they are not always 100% accurate because learning is dynamic and a human endeavour. Plus sometimes we add things as the day goes along.

Big things of note:

A great circle time. The students did an amazing job of listening to each other and did not side track talk for about 22 of the 27 students that shared. That is great progress. Students shared what happened this weekend, shared who was the “big dawg” in the house (the parent most likely to say, “no” to requests) and we played a brain energizing game.  

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Mindset is all about “YET” If you didn’t master it with an 80%, you just haven’t learned it or practiced it enough YET. We discussed this in our brains week. Studies prove that students that understand the brain and see their intelligence as something that is cultivated and grown outperform those that believe their intelligence was predetermined by Zeus or the “Math Fairy.” Not only that students with a growth mindset handle conflict and setback more successfully as they understand conflict and defeat is part of our heroic journey towards learning.

So this lead to a discussion on the importance of our math test corrections and error analysis worksheet. We are going to use this to improve upon our learning when completing our weekly and lesson assessments.  Students will have time during their morning work and during our math breakout times to work with myself or research independently why they made a mistake on the original assessment or what do they still need to learn.  

Brainpop

I assign the Brainpops and give the students time to watch and take the quizzes. I will then run the report the evening or morning they are due. Students that didn’t finish initially will receive a M on their grade. However they should take the quiz at their earliest convenience. I do not mark down for a late completion and a student may watch the movie more than once and retake the quiz more than once. They need to send me an email or show me their “My Brainpop” page that shows they completed the quiz and their score.

Monday Free-Write

20 minutes, no holds bar, write on the topic. Do not worry about grammar or spelling, focus on the skill of writing and creating. They then meet up in small groups and discuss each other’s ideas and the details that they covered.

Daily Vocabulary and Weekly Vocabulary Assessment..

4 words per week. They will have a day each to focus on the words. Then on Fridays they are given an opportunity to share out that they know what the words mean.

This week:  typical and the three different ways we use the word “standard”

Try and challenge your son or daughter to use those words throughout the week.

The common core gods do not approve of the use of bunny with place value. 

Math Lesson 2 sub lesson 4

More work with these concepts:

*10 *100 and *1000

/10  /100 and /1000

Decimal place moves to the right when you multiply by 10, 100 or 1000

Decimal place moves to the left when you divide by 10, 100 or 1000

10*10 = 102  = 100

1.4 = 1.40 = 1.4000 = 1.4000000000000000

The test on Lesson 2 is tomorrow. Students are strongly encouraged to study their green book and review their homework packet.

Both the green book and their homework packet will be collected tomorrow.

Scootpad

We successfully signed into Scootpad today.

We will be using www.scootpad.com for language arts/grammar, some math and we may try out their newly created “adaptive” spelling.

Homework for the evening:

Read for 30 minutes and have the day planner signed off that they did it.

Work on your large arduous book project

STudy for the math test tomorrow. Review your green book for Lesson 2 and review your homework packet.  Make sure you understand the various concepts covered in both.

Due Thursday completed Math Test Corrections/ Error Analysis Worksheet for problems missed in

1. End of Fourth Grade Assessment
2. Week 1 end of week daily common core math test
3. Lesson 1 Quiz

If you did not yet earn 45 or more on the district fluency - this practice your X and division.

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Go Niners!