Thursday, January 20th

Technology lab today:

1. typing
2. science Brainpops
3. Thank You letters
4. Projects
5. Autobiographies

Presentations:
Another impressive day of Animoto, powerpoints, and Prezi

Math:
Multiple Step multiplication with fractions.  
Tonight’s lesson is really some more serious style algebra.   We did two problems in the class that we counted had 5 different steps in order to solve.
Students were given 25 minutes to work on tonight’s homework.

Famous American reports..
We started discussing what the report was all about.
I will firm up the due dates and send home a hard copy.  For today, they were able to see what the requirements are.  

Lice -- Our entire school has this challenge.  So please check your child’s hair.  Also no jackets or clothing of any kind will be left here for the 3 day weekend.  They are coming in and cleaning out everything on Friday evening.  

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:

Theme 3 Projects are being shown and graded this week.  
Here is when your child is presenting:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dHR0TlR5S1o3Uy1zS2cxWmZCUTMwLVE&hl=en&authkey=COqAu-sI

Free-Write due Friday:
A free free write -- any topic

Math:
Page 284-285 (1-29 all) due Friday
Multiplication:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Multiplying%20Fractions.swf
Division:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Dividing%20Fractions.swf

We have locked down the field trip for ZEUM (www.zeum.org) on Tuesday, February 1st.
Students need to be here by 7:45 in the morning and we are shooting to return at 2:50.  Please note that it is a usually 2:05 return time that day.
Here is the permission slip:
http://www.box.net/shared/z3f4l6t8u4

Read an Autobiography Story from our L.A. book and create a mini poster about this person:  DUE ON FRIDAY.
You only have to read ONE of the stories and do one poster.
Langston Terrace on pages 574-578
Jane Goodall on pages 579-581
Bill Peet on pages 582-587
Alex Rodgriguez on pages 588-591

Your poster must have the following:
Clearly have the person’s name.
What important thing(s) has this person accomplished?
What three new facts did you learn about this person from the reading?
From another source other than the story (e.g. wikipedia, encyclopedia, book at the library) what three new facts did you learn a bout this person?
What three questions would you ask this person and why?
Poster may be done on-line as a prezi, as a powerpoint or done on typical poster paper (which I can get you).  
DUE ON FRIDAY  - not intended to become a 2 or 3 hour ordeal.  Child should spend no more than 45-60 minutes on this assignment.

Computer Lab on January 20th

Typing for 20 minutes

Watch TWO  Brainpops:

http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/phscale/preview.weml

http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/acidsandbases/preview.weml

I would take the quiz at the end of each movie to ensure that you understood what was being discussed.

I want you to watch this movie as well.

http://www.brainpop.com/english/studyandreadingskills/research/preview.weml

Then in priority order:
Finish and print the Thank You Letter
Practice or work on the Theme 3 Project
Work on the autobiography due tomorrow.
Free write due on Friday.

Bullet Point Wednesday....

Super quick one today since it was Mr. Hubbard's alumni day.  I had about 10+  high school students come by and visit throughout the afternoon.  The high school is in the middle of their final's week so the students have some time to visit.  So we reminisced about the "good old days."

Here is today in bullet point format:
We began our project presentations!!

Library  -- more Dewey decimal system work

Projects   - I'll post the examples and final submissions tomorrow.

Math   -  see the notes that we took regarding today's math:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/mjpi21f5ea.pdf

L.A. Assignments
some more notes on the poster assignment:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/mjpi21f5ea.pdf

Thank you letters

Get ready for the final two days of the week.

Science the study guide is due tomorrow.


Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:

Thank you letter is due Thursday.   The final final great copy is due.  We spent 20 minutes proofreading them today so they should be perfect and ready to be mailed off tomorrow.

Theme 3 Projects are being shown and graded this week.  
Here is when your child is presenting:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dHR0TlR5S1o3Uy1zS2cxWmZCUTMwLVE&hl=en&authkey=COqAu-sI

Free-Write due Friday:
A free free write -- any topic

Free-Write due Thursday:
“There are just too many.........”  or
“The toy that I will always remember is....”

Math:
Page 279  (9-33 all)  due Thursday
Page 284-285 (1-29 all) due Friday
Multiplication:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Multiplying%20Fractions.swf
Division:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Dividing%20Fractions.swf

We have locked down the field trip for ZEUM (www.zeum.org) on Tuesday, February 1st.
Students need to be here by 7:45 in the morning and we are shooting to return at 2:50.  Please note that it is a usually 2:05 return time that day.
Here is the permission slip:
http://www.box.net/shared/z3f4l6t8u4

Read an Autobiography Story from our L.A. book and create a mini poster about this person:  DUE ON FRIDAY.
You only have to read ONE of the stories and do one poster.
Langston Terrace on pages 574-578
Jane Goodall on pages 579-581
Bill Peet on pages 582-587
Alex Rodgriguez on pages 588-591

Your poster must have the following:
Clearly have the person’s name.
What important thing(s) has this person accomplished?
What three new facts did you learn about this person from the reading?
From another source other than the story (e.g. wikipedia, encyclopedia, book at the library) what three new facts did you learn a bout this person?
What three questions would you ask this person and why?
Poster may be done on-line as a prezi, as a powerpoint or done on typical poster paper (which I can get you).  
DUE ON FRIDAY  - not intended to become a 2 or 3 hour ordeal.  Child should spend no more than 45-60 minutes on this assignment.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The field trip day.....

We went to the Lawrence Livermore Labratory today and everything went super smooth.  Thank you again for the seven parents that volunteered to drive!!   Your time and safe driving was highly appreciated.  

The kids then had PE after we returned from the field trip.    Field trip + PE = glorious day.  

Tonight’s homework:
‘Write a thank you letter to Mr. Williams and Mr. Beck.
Introduction paragraph - mentioning they came on Tuesday, January 18th and the scavenger hunt (CSI) in the visitor’s center and then the laboratory time.
One paragraph where they mention 2 to 3 specific examples of things that they learned or enjoyed during their time in the visitor’s center and doing the CSI competition.  
One paragraph where they mention 2 to 3 specific examples of things that they learned or enjoyed during their 90 minutes in the laboratory with Mr. Williams.  
Final paragraph where they can again say thank you and mention how the field trip may have inspired them, encouraged to learn something new, and anything else that thought about or learned on this field trip.

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:

Thank you letter is due Wednesday

Theme 3 Projects are being shown and graded this week.  
Here is when your child is presenting:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dHR0TlR5S1o3Uy1zS2cxWmZCUTMwLVE&hl=en&authkey=COqAu-sI

Free-Write due Friday:
A free free write -- any topic

Free-Write due Thursday:
“There are just too many.........”

Math:
Page 279  (1-33 all)  due Thursday
Page 284-285 (1-29 all) due Friday
Multiplication:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Multiplying%20Fractions.swf
Division:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Dividing%20Fractions.swf

We have locked down the field trip for ZEUM (www.zeum.org) on Tuesday, February 1st.
Students need to be here by 7:45 in the morning and we are shooting to return at 2:50.  Please note that it is a usually 2:05 return time that day.
Here is the permission slip:
http://www.box.net/shared/z3f4l6t8u4

Read an Autobiography Story from our L.A. book and create a mini poster about this person:  DUE ON FRIDAY.
You only have to read ONE of the stories and do one poster.
Eloise Greenfield pages 574-578
Jane Goodall on pages 579-581
Bill Peet on pages 582-587
Alex Rodgriguez on pages 588-591

Your poster must have the following:
Clearly have the person’s name.
What important thing(s) has this person accomplished?
What three new facts did you learn about this person from the reading?
From another source other than the story (e.g. wikipedia, encyclopedia, book at the library) what three new facts did you learn a bout this person?
What three questions would you ask this person and why?
Poster may be done on-line as a prezi, as a powerpoint or done on typical poster paper (which I can get you).  
DUE ON FRIDAY

Sign up for your project time........

Here is the link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtOH1AduQvi0dHR0TlR5S1o3Uy1zS2cxWmZCUTMwLVE&hl=en&authkey=COqAu-sI

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A day of unexpected challenges...

Library -- they were assigned a Dewey Decimal and identify the library scavenger hunt task.  I think this is a really useful assignment that Mrs. Klein created.  

Dublin Police came and spoke with the kids about the dangers of meth.  They also showed a video where meth users who all looked easily 40+ years old and we were told they were all in their 20’s.  Yikes.

Theme 3 test -- we graded and answered questions about the grammar packet and then we rolled out the theme 3 test.  

We then had a “bad guy” drill (aka lockdown practice).   We did pretty well however we didn’t successfully lock the room next to us in C-4 so that could have been an entry point.   So we will review how to ensure a door is locked for future reference.  

We extensively reviewed the Alameda/Power of 1 style of multiplying fractions.  
I gave five examples and we watched a Brainpop.com regarding this.  Unfortunately my Smartboard crashed so the notes from today can not be posted.  

Here are the lessons from our friends from Alameda.  We will be reviewing these as an entire class the next two days:
Multiplication:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Multiplying%20Fractions.swf
Division:
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/files/EdServices/Dividing%20Fractions.swf

After math, we had the Cargo and Wilmott rotations.   I know for a fact that we do have science homework tonight.  Please review Mrs. Wilmotts/Haar’s website for details.

We have locked down the field trip for ZEUM (www.zeum.org) on Tuesday, February 1st.
Students need to be here by 7:45 in the morning and we are shooting to return at 2:50.  Please note that it is a usually 2:05 return time that day.
Here is the permission slip:
http://www.box.net/shared/z3f4l6t8u4
*I’ll give a hard copy tomorrow.  
We do need 3 to 4 chaperons per class.  So email me if you are interested in being a chaperon.  
We are hoping that PFC will approve our request for funds next Wednesday.  So if you check out their website or if you have been to Zeum, please attend the meeting in support for our request or send an email to your friend PFC board member.  
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:

Math:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Page 273-274 (7-42 all) due on Thursday
Page 276-277 (1-25 all) due on Friday

Free Write due on Friday --
Find a photo from a magazine, on-line or newspaper and cut it out or print it up.  Attach to your free-write.  Tell me a story about this person.  Must be a real human being.  If using actual friend or brother/sister -- please be kind.  

5 paragraph essay
Final draft will be due on Friday, 1/14
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/TCR/0743932080_075.pdf
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/userfiles/file/Outline%20graphic%20organizer.pdf

Theme 3 Projects will finalized and shown to the class on January 19th.

There will be a Thursday night handout, that will entail reading a 1 or 2 page passage and responding or answering questions.  Due to the uniqueness of Wednesday, I did not create a handout for Wednesday.  So they will have just a Thursday night reading assignment.

Tuesday -- 1/11/11

Another super quick Tuesday....

Spelling Test.....
Technology lab -- 20 minutes of working on typing.  Then we spent the remainder of the time working on our projects.  

Math:
We 20+ minutes working answering questions from the test prep homework.  We also spent 10 minutes going over tonight’s math homework.  
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024

Math Test....about ⅔ of the class finished within 75 minutes.  We will allow them to complete the test tomorrow.

Review grammar packet...due to the nature of the math test, we only reviewed 3 or 4 pages of the packet.  We will review prior to the theme 3 test tomorrow.

P.E.


Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:

Math:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Page 270  7-30 all due on Wednesday
Page 273-274 (7-42 all) due on Thursday
Page 276-277 (1-25 all) due on Friday

Theme 3 Exam is on Wednesday:
Here is the on-line link for the theme 3 study guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hocseGYpjFpIY51K4cFfZwF81xyOus_v3Xs7cu3TVM8/edit?hl=en

Free Write due on Friday --
Find a photo from a magazine, on-line or newspaper and cut it out or print it up.  Attach to your free-write.  Tell me a story about this person.  Must be a real human being.  If using actual friend or brother/sister -- please be kind.  

5 paragraph essay
Final draft will be due on Friday, 1/14
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/TCR/0743932080_075.pdf
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/userfiles/file/Outline%20graphic%20organizer.pdf

Theme 3 Projects will finalized and shown to the class on January 19th.

There will be a Wednesday night and Thursday night handout, that will entail reading a 1 or 2 page passage and responding or answering questions.  I’m still choosing, students should get both either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

**Paperwork will be coming shortly.   We are going to a field trip at www.zeum.org on Tuesday, February 1st.  It will entail getting to school earlier that usual, taking a bus, and arriving back to school closer to the 2:50 time.   We also need some chaperons.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Happy Monday!!

Today, we spent the morning time working on math preparations for tomorrow.  We also had an opportunity to make progress on our 5 paragraph essays.  Finally students were also working on their grammar packets that are due on Tuesday.  

After the morning tutoring and work, the students worked on their American Revolution projects.  Many of the projects are really starting to take shape.  We have about four more hours of in class time to complete them.  

After reviewing some of the PowerPoint's and prezi being created, and looking back at talks/grades from previous presentations, I gave my Rules of Powerpoint presentation.  
The main ones that we discussed:
1.  Tell a story with your presentation.  Similar to a 5 paragraph essay, you should have an introduction that gives an overview of your research, the heart of the research and then finally a conclusion that recaps the story and lessons learned.  
2.  Choose photos and/or music that will make your audience respond emotionally.  Once you know what information you want to convey and tell, and then try to create a slide that will wake up the audience to prep them to listen to your research or point.
3.  Limit the amount of words on each Powerpoint.  There should not be bullet points and there should not be paragraphs/sentences.   It is better to post a key word(s) or phrase w/ a photo and offer an explanation to that slide.
4.  Shy away from the gimmicks on Powerpoint, no noises and interactive movements.  
Here are the websites that we used to discuss these points:
http://www.diigo.com/user/iamron/powerpointrules

Grammar packet  and theme 3
We quickly discussed how to study using our grammar packet and pleading about how to review the theme 3 study guide tonight and tomorrow night.

Math:
The test is tomorrow.
Many students completed or just about completed the Chapter 11 Practice Test that can be found on www.pearsonsuccessnet.com   Once your son/daughter completes this 27 question test the website’s software willl offer them lessons  based on what they need to review prior to tomorrow.
I have also included copies of the test version A w/ answers so you can practice with that as well.   You can also look at our series of notes on how to best answer the Chapter 11 questions from reviewing prior day’s notes:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024

After lunch, we discussed the homework for the week, how to study for the upcoming tests this week, and how plan out our time for the other responsibilities.

Field trip is next Tuesday, if you said you would drive, please get that paperwork, copy of your insurance and proof of lack of points into Nancy Bastida ASAP.  We are cutting it razor thin so we need everyone to please get all that paperwork in.

Homework for the week:
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:

Math:
Chapter 11 Practice Test due Tuesday
http://www.box.net/shared/static/t5eyh8yc7n.pdf  -- use this link if you can’t get onto www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Chapter 11 Test is Tuesday
Math Practice Test due on Tuesday 1/11th
All our math notes and handouts for chapter 11 and this year:
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Page 270  1-30 all due on Wednesday
Page 273-274 (7-42 all) due on Thursday
Page 276-277 (1-25 all) due on Friday

Grammar Packet -- due on Tuesday, 1-11-11

Spelling Test due on Tuesday
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5sr03.html

Theme 3 Exam is on Wednesday:
Here is the on-line link for the theme 3 study guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hocseGYpjFpIY51K4cFfZwF81xyOus_v3Xs7cu3TVM8/edit?hl=en

Free Write due on Friday --
Find a photo from a magazine, on-line or newspaper and cut it out or print it up.  Attach to your free-write.  Tell me a story about this person.  Must be a real human being.  If using actual friend or brother/sister -- please be kind.  

5 paragraph essay
Final draft will be due on Friday, 1/14
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/TCR/0743932080_075.pdf
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/userfiles/file/Outline%20graphic%20organizer.pdf

Theme 3 Projects will finalized and shown to the class on January 19th.

There will be a Wednesday night and Thursday night handout, that will entail reading a 1 or 2 page passage and responding or answering questions.  I’m still choosing, students should get both either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

**Paperwork will be coming shortly.   We are going to a field trip at www.zeum.org on Tuesday, February 1st.  It will entail getting to school earlier that usual, taking a bus, and arriving back to school closer to the 2:50 time.   We also need some chaperons.