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Happy Tuesday! Once again the weather dips below 90 and I am able to get out an email.
If I don’t send out an email and you are curious what went down today and a great probability that that night’s homework went down, you can check out this link for today’s date.
What has been going on?
The biggest news is that on Monday we began strategically rotating every day from 11:45-12:30 Monday through Thursday following the Response to Intervention (RTI) model created under the rollout of No-Child-Left-Behind . It is one of the five focuses of our district in the 2015-2016 school year, to utilize RTI with regards to our essential standards in L.A. and Math.
If you would like to learn more about RTI? Here are some great pieces of reading below, since I am not a cable news show I tried to include articles that cover its pros and its cons
What does that mean for our class?
It is a loss of about 15% available classroom time where the core community of 27 students are all together. Those 4,500 minutes this will be used on focused essential standards. Therefore we will work even more strategically to cover all of the other curriculum in the remaining 85% of the time so we well-rounded students in the other curriculums.
What this first breakdown looks like is that some students will be focusing on mastering and improving their fluency in mathematical facts. Students who did not pass the 3 minutes and 50 math fact assessments will be exposed to various mathematical strategies, old-school flashcards and using technology to refine and speed up fluency. Some students will be focusing on challenging math that expands upon our 5th-grade math knowledge. While another group will be engaging in math project that will have them use the math standards in an open-ended creative way. The groups are flexible and ever evolving, therefore no one is issued Scarlet Letters and groups will change throughout the year.
Constitution Day -- we were able to have a discussion regarding Constitution day and the students also participated in a two-day competition to learn more about our Constitution while working in teams. About four teams were able to complete the arduous task in the three hours given. Others who did not quite complete it, are encouraged to complete the packet on their own time and earn some constitutional sweets!!
Completing our unit on Inches and Miles -- students were given time today and have until Friday to complete their write-ups regarding the pillars of the pyramid of success. Throughout the process students were given 15 to 25 minutes complete their writeups after we read and discussed two pillars at a time. Some students do not focus or maximize their time therefore this Friday due date may or may not be painful for students.
The Book Project Part of our Monday reflection and journaling has been to tell me how students are doing on their book project. There is an alarming amount of students that say they have not made much progress with their book? I appreciate their honesty, however when they are supposed to read “at least” 30 minutes every night, they should be prioritizing the reading of their book project book. This is intended to be a well crafted and well thought out book project so they should be giving themselves time to complete the six Bloom’s Taxonomy tasks.
Math
Tomorrow is lesson 3’s test.
As you can see from today’s notes -- we brainstormed the difference between studying and homework. We brainstormed what they could use to study.
Students were told to bring home the green book, their math notebook and the homework packet. They were told which areas and modeled what type of problems to know how to do.
We also spent about 30+ minutes where some worked in pairs studying together, some reviewed their packets together and some chose to watch and practice using Khan Academy.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework:
Read for 30 minutes.
You should be working on your book project.
STUDY for tomorrow’s test.
Complete the Khan Academy task assigned to you yesterday (see announcement in the Google Classroom).
The Monday reflection that you started in class, is due at your earliest convenience.
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