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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Another morning where we continued catching up on hanging assignments while a % of students left us throughout the morning for their band commitments.  
Students completed the district math assessment, thorough language arts assessment and various exam left over from our recent illnesses.  

Grammar:
CLICK HERE for some grammar review for theme 5

I believe we made a ton of progress of object pronouns versus a subject pronoun.

We did a using this website to work on grammar, vocabulary and math skills while also helping out others:
www.freerice.com
It has intuitive software so it will make the questions more challenging or less challenging depending on how frequent your answers are correct.
I had some students working on basic math facts and some students worked their way up to algebra 1 type questions.  
 
Math:
Addition with positive and or negative integers.   
+2 + +5 =          A “positive party” so you add the 2 and 5 for a sum of 7
-2 + -5 =         A “negative party” so you add the -2 and -5 for a sum of -7
-2 + 5 =         The 5 has the greater “absolute value”  so the answer has to be positive for a sum of 3
2 + -5 =        The -5 has the greater “absolute value” so the answer has to be negative for a sum of -3
Students had 20 minutes to work on tonight’s homework.

Rotation with Cargo and Wilmott.  There is science homework due on Friday.

Thank you for all of the quick Pi/Pie day volunteering.  

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 349-350 ALL  due on Friday
CLICK HERE FOR Notes from today’s lesson:

Related Khan Academy Videos to this chapter’s lessons:
CLICK HERE for this chapters Khan Videos

Reading comprehension due by Friday:
A Boy Called Slow
Read 468-485
P.B. 275
Answer two masterpieces on-line in complete sentences, with complete thoughts and refer back to the book.
CLICK HERE to complete the reading comprehension questions for A Boy Called Slow
Take the AR quiz

Free-Write this week:
Take the edit feedback from peers, clean up your story and be prepared to have it 98% done.
CLICK HERE for all of the instructions and how to access every one's short-story

Famous American Report:
http://www.box.net/shared/4idhdcrbhs
Here are the high level due dates:Rough Draft due                                                                                   Friday, March 18,  2011
Final copy due                                                                                           Friday, April 15, 2011
**students should be making significant progress right now on this.  This is not something that can painlessly be put together in one or two evenings. ****