Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A quick one today....
We had technology today.
CLICK HERE for the specific game plan

We then prepped the room for state testing.  

We then took the 2nd part of the math test.   We have science tomorrow and then the Wells Placement test on Thursday morning.  

They ended the day with some great beautiful sunshine and some P.E.

HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK:

State Testing Prep:
If your child wants to do some prepping here is the links for California’s released questions:

• If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS

• Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level.    CLICK HERE

• The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on.   CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS  

Exercise  -- especially if your child tends to get nervous with testing have them burn off their increased adrenaline.

More sleep than usual -- well rested people perform better

Be full of water  

Great breakfast with complex carbohydrates and/or proteins.

Math Prep and Review

CLICK HERE for a great website for reviewing 5th grade skills and it even includes skill appropriate math games.  

Don’t forget that my favorite the Khan Academy has a great bunch of movie math reviews.

The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday
Click here for math notes and the mmmr rap

All the notes from our last two weeks of review can be found on the math link:
CLICK HERE FOR ALL OF OUR NOTES ON MATH REVIEW

First States and Capitals test will be on Thursday.   Everything you ever needed regarding the states and capitals
Click here to practice your states and capitals

Technology on May 10, 2011

1. 20 minutes of typing
2. www.pearsonsuccessnet.com and work on the math practice called May 10, 2011 
3. Science Review --- please either go here  or watch 4th grade Brainpops
4. States and Capitals or  school appropriate 

Monday, May 9, 2011

We did about 30 minutes reviewing the last of our poems.  So now every poem, minus the three students that did not complete the assignment, has been critiqued and received feedback from 25 students+teacher.
We hope to enter our poems into the national competition tomorrow while at the computer lab.  

We then pushed hard on math review this morning.  We spent nearly 100 minutes reviewing math concepts.  
The notes can be found by clicking here.

We this watched a great movie called “Spin”
We watched the movie and then debated on the author’s perspective and the director’s message.  
Here is the movie since the students enjoyed the movie.

We then listened to a recent episode of Freakanomics.  
Click here to listen.
They discussed the photo that is used in the blog.  

I hope you enjoyed the Mother’s Day cookbook.  I will attach it later this week so you can keep it at home.  I hope you enjoyed your special day!!

Reminder:

• May testing for Math -- is Tuesday
• May testing for science is Wednesday
• Wells Advanced Placement test is Thursday

HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK:

State Testing Prep:
If your child wants to do some prepping here is the links for California’s released questions:

• If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS

• Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level.    CLICK HERE

• The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on.   CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS  

Exercise  -- especially if your child tends to get nervous with testing have them burn off their increased adrenaline.

More sleep than usual -- well rested people perform better

Be full of water  

Great breakfast with complex carbohydrates and/or proteins.

Math Prep and Review

CLICK HERE for a great website for reviewing 5th grade skills and it even includes skill appropriate math games.  

Don’t forget that my favorite the Khan Academy has a great bunch of movie math reviews.

The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday
Click here for math notes and the mmmr rap

All the notes from our last two weeks of review can be found on the math link:
CLICK HERE FOR ALL OF OUR NOTES ON MATH REVIEW

First States and Capitals test will be on Thursday.   Everything you ever needed regarding the states and capitals
Click here to practice your states and capitals

Outdoor Education (Camp Arroyo) Survey

CLICK HERE FOR THE OUTDOOR EDUCATION SURVEY

Thursday, May 5th

You should be very proud of your child today, they have really applied themselves this week.  The students have clearly been taking their time on the tests and also retaking the test once they finished.    

Tomorrow the medical forms are due to the office, they need to go directly into the office.  
Click here are the instructions for medicine:

HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK:

State Testing Prep:
If your child wants to do some prepping here is the links for California’s released questions:

• If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS

• Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level.    CLICK HERE

• The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on.   CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS  

Exercise  -- especially if your child tends to get nervous with testing have them burn off their increased adrenaline.

More sleep than usual -- well rested people perform better

Be full of water  

Great breakfast with complex carbohydrates and/or proteins.

Math Prep and Review

CLICK HERE for a great website for reviewing 5th grade skills and it even includes skill appropriate math games.  

Don’t forget that my favorite the Khan Academy has a great bunch of movie math reviews.

The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday
Click here for math notes and the mmmr rap

For our ramp up on fractions, students need to bring in a recipe and be clear how many servings it makes.   This way we can be “chefs” and cut recipes in ½ or double/triple the recipe.  

Everything you ever needed regarding the states and capitals
Click here to practice your states and capitals

Fraction Work with Recipes

Remember to

1. Title your Recipe
2. Put your name below the title of your recipe
3. Put your mother's name below the title of your recipe
4. Then write several sentences explaining why you choose this particular recipe.

CLICK HERE FOR Appetizers 


CLICK HERE FOR side dishes


CLICK HERE FOR main dishes


CLICK HERE FOR desserts


CLICK HERE FOR drinks

May 3, 2011 -- The first day of state testing

Today was our first day of state testing.  We started off the day as we normally do, with 90 minutes in the computer lab.  
We worked on our typing, used a great math website to review, and then they had 15 minutes to decompress before the testing.  
Here is the specific technology game plan.

We then prepped the class and the students for the first test.

At 10:30 a.m. we began our Language Arts testing.  Tomorrow will be the same time and it will be section II of the Language Arts.  

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK:

State Testing Prep:
If your child wants to do some prepping here is the links for California’s released questions:

• If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS

• Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level.    CLICK HERE

• The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on.   CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS  

Exercise  -- especially if your child tends to get nervous with testing have them burn off their increased adrenaline.

More sleep than usual -- well rested people perform better

Be full of water  

Great breakfast with complex carbohydrates and/or proteins.

Math Prep and Review

CLICK HERE for a great website for reviewing 5th grade skills and it even includes skill appropriate math games.  

Don’t forget that my favorite the Khan Academy has a great bunch of movie math reviews.

The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday
Click here for math notes and the mmmr rap

For our ramp up on fractions, students need to bring in a recipe and be clear how many servings it makes.   This way we can be “chefs” and cut recipes in ½ or double/triple the recipe.  

Study for the first 13 states and capitals test
Click here to practice your states and capitals

Technology Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Let's do our 20 minutes of typing practice therefore stop at 8:50.

Let’s work on some specific math:
Click here to access the math website

Choose whichever chapter you believe that you need more practice with.
You may watch. read or play the games that match up with that chapter’s lessons.
At the bottom of each chapter there is a CHAPTER TEST.   Take that test and then email the results to me  hubbardron @ dublin.k12.ca.us

Stop with the math at 8:15’ish.

From 8:15 through 8:30  -- you may practice states/capitals, type in your recipe, read about something important to you, or go to a school appropriate website.  Basically whatever will help you relax and prep yourself for the upcoming state testing.

Camp Arroyo in Livermore.....

We need your camp medicine turned in on Monday, April 16th. Medicines need to be dropped off at the front office. Medicines should NEVER be brought into class.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL OF THE MEDICINE FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS

We leave for camp on the morning of Tuesday, April 17th.

Students are asked to arrive no earlier than 10:30 on that day so you should plan for a later drop off that day.  

Students need to bring a bag lunch for Tuesday afternoon.

We arrive back from camp on the afternoon Friday, April 20th 1:20'ish p.m. The school day is over once the students arrive back from camp.  So you should plan for an early pick up at 1:20'ish.    

I also have put all of the internet information about Camp Arroyo CLICK HERE FOR THE SERIES OF LINKS

Monday, May 2, 2011

Our May 2nd Classroom Brainstorm!

The next three days will be the heart of our state testing.  We will have language arts on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Then we will take the math portion on Thursday morning.

We spent the time reading, practicing on language arts test prep, reviewing math and peer editing our poems.  

We did start of the day discussing the Osama Bin Laden events that occurred last night. since there was a ton of questions and preclass discussion regarding this.  I tried to focus on the facts that I read and observed last night.  I also tried to explain why some people may have experienced a sense of closure regarding this however I encouraged them to speak with their own family about the death penalty and justice.

If your child wants to do some prepping here is the links for California’s released questions:

• If you would like your child to begin reviewing “all” of the released test questions, CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RELEASED QUESTIONS

• Here is another link that may be useful, just choose “sample questions” and the section/grade level.    CLICK HERE

• The blueprints are very useful so your students can understand which specific question they will be tested on.   CLICK HERE FOR THE BLUEPRINTS  

The key to success is having your student read the short passages three times.
The first time just to read the passage and get a general sense of what the story is about.
The second time, they read it, mark it, star it, and try to underline and decipher the story in a way they can intimately know the passage.
The third read is just basically putting the story in your own words and marking parts that you think will have clues to potential questions.

Math:
We used the response devices and reviewed 14 different questions based on their survey result and reviewing important ideas.  
If you want to see our notes CLICK HERE.

They then had 30 minutes to work on www.pearsonsuccessnet.com on challenging 5th grade areas or work  one on one with me.  

Finally we peer edited four more well thought out and written poems.

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Homework:
The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday
Click here for math notes and the mmmr rap

For our ramp up on fractions, students need to bring in a recipe and be clear how many servings it makes.   This way we can be “chefs” and cut recipes in ½ or double/triple the recipe.  

Study for the first 13 states and capitals test
Click here to practice your states and capitals

Exercise  -- especially if your child tends to get nervous with testing have them burn off their increased adrenaline.

More sleep than usual -- well rested people perform better

Be full of water  

Great breakfast with complex carbohydrates and/or proteins.