Wednesday, #26 2012 2013 (10/03/12)

Your 2012 Western Division Champs!

Day 26

Sorry about yesterday.  Dev had a slight fever and congestion.   On the days that Tam works then I get sick patrol.  However we are blessed to have the extremely talented Mrs. Cooper to run the ship.  It similar to when Captain Kirk handed it off to the extremely qualified Mr. Spock.  

Tonight’s debate -- students are encouraged to watch the debate, watch it edited on Youtube afterwards, or try to find a “somewhat” unbiased recap of it.   They can either do a short write up, a podcast, a quick video, or a powerpoint of what they took from the debate.  Looking for specifics from the debate and not generic “they were great, they were boring.etc..”

Field trip to Lawrence Livermore Lab --- thanks to all of the parent chaperones.  We got there on time and it was drama free with no one getting lost.  
Please ask your son/daughter what they learned and what stood out about today’s field trip.  Ask them to explain the marshmellow, the loud explosion,  elephant tooth-paste, four students were able to “light up my life” by holding hands, and biking.

Math:
Mo’ division, Mo’division and even mo’division!!!
We practiced more with the decomposition and using prime factoring.  
Here are the notes from today and I even did an example of division showing all of the various division strategies EXCEPT for traditional.
click here for those notes

Mini-Vocabulary Cards:
Students were creative and artistic creating this week’s vocab cards.

Dictionary skills

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:

Math
All chapter 4 notes are found here.
Page 109 4-8 all set D & 1-8 all set E due Thursday
Page 97 11-22 all due on Friday

Vocabulary and Spelling test on Friday.
Spelling Vocab Words found here

Grammar due on Thursday
P.B. 48 and 49

Comprehension Work:
“Keep It Short” due on Thursday

James Madison + Presidents...due on Friday

“Cupcakes, paper and Paste” due Friday

Free-Write due Friday
Your free-write must mention:
1. earth
2. sleeping
3. bees
4. a hand

Jaws A-Thon $$$$ is due back on Friday.

The book report requirements.  I handed this out on Friday and we discussed.  Students are given freedom to be as creative or as “non” creative as they want.  Also if they want to do something else, just send me an email or come talk with me.
Here are the requirements.

Technology Tuesday 10/1/2012

1.  Please take the monthly Star Reader Test.
Click here
Password admin

2.  Log into your Google Account on Firefox
Click here to get to Google.
Confirm that you can find the document that I shared with you.

3. Khan Academy --Sign in and make me your coach
"Sign in" to Khan Academy with your Google Account.  
Sign with Khan and say it is ok to sign in with your "google account"
Make me your coach.  How?
Click onto your name on the top of the Khan Academy
Go down to where it says, "People" and "Coaches"
Copy and paste this    hubbardron@dublinusd.net

4.  Khan Academy and Singapore Math
Here is the next installment.  Remember to take notes for it is a great way of learning math and there will be a quiz.
Click here to watch, take notes and learn with part 3

5.  CNN Students and taking notes
Click here to watch CNN from Tuesday.
Click here to answer your two questions. 

Remember you can go and rewatch the movie if you did not take great notes the first time.

6.  Complete this form before recess.
Click here to complete the survey.

Monday, #24 2012 2013 (10/01/12)

Discover Center in Livermore. Site of our Wed. field trip.

Day 24

It was a hot Monday in Dublin...heck, it still is a hot day in Dublin.   100+?

P.E.  first thing in the morning before all the heat hit.

Spelling Pretest
Volcanoes are this week’s words

Seaman -- winter with the Mandans.  It was cold, it was low on food and they had a ton of time sitting in a small room, dancing and talking.  

Lewis and Clark -- Also learned about the winter with the Mandans.   It dropped to the temperature of -35 degrees.  Toes were frostbitten & lost and Sacagawea somehow successfully delivered her little boy, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.   

Math:
More practice with division.....
Here are our notes from today.
Students need to follow this format all week:
1. Write the original problem down
2.  Do a “quick” estimate
3.  Solve the problem using one of the non traditional methods.  

Cnn Students / Notes and Inference Skills
Topics that we discussed and wrote about today:
Syria -- what is a “civil war?”  ;  Supreme Court -- how long do you serve?  why an odd # of justices? ; How does the hot weather and corn not growing well affect the price of meat?;   What is the “new” way to farm fish?  ;  The new government regulations regarding food and calories, ensuring students eat healthy versus the government staying out of my diet;  Finally, who is Whitney Kropp and how did she overcome bullying?

Plan, prioritize and get a head start on the week ahead.
Students were given 30 minutes to write everything down in their day planner and begin working on homework.  
Many students chose to use the time wisely while a handful of students did not stay focused during those precious 30 minutes.  

Field Trip is on Wednesday.
It runs from 8:30-Noon’ish;   We are back before lunch.   However student do miss out on their snack time and it is not practical to eat at the laboratory during exhibits and presentations.   I suggest the students have a slightly larger than normal breakfast.  

The book report requirements.  
I handed this out on Friday and we discussed.  Students are given freedom to be as creative or as “non” creative as they want.  Also if they want to do something else, just send me an email or come talk with me.
Here are the requirements.

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Homework for the week:

Compare & Contrast write-up is due Tuesday

Math
All chapter 4 notes are found here.
Page 87  10-32 even problems due Tuesday
Page 93 9-22 all problems due Wednesday
Page 109 4-8 all set D & 1-8 all set E due Thursday
Page 97 11-22 all due on Friday

Vocabulary work due Wednesday:
5 challenge words --mini posters & P.B. 47
Spelling Vocab Words found here

Grammar due on Thursday
P.B. 48 and 49

Comprehension Work:
P.B. 41 and 42 due on Wednesday
“Keep It Short” due on Thursday

James Madison + Presidents...due on Friday

“Cupcakes, paper and Paste” due Friday

Free-Write due Friday
Your free-write must mention:
1. earth
2. sleeping
3. bees
4. a hand

Jaws A-Thon $$$$ is due back on Friday.

Thursday, #22 2012 2013 (9/27/12)

Corps of Discovery Monument, Jefferson City, MO by don j schulte @ oxherder arts

 Day 22 of week 5

The “Jaws A-Thon”  is tomorrow!!!  
We need a few more parent volunteers.  It is a great way to watch the kids jog, encourage them and enjoy some of this delightful sunshine.  
If you can help click here.  5th grade needs just a few more volunteers.
This is PFC’s big fund raiser for the year so we are asking that you harass family members and friends for at least $20 per student.    Let them know it goes to a great cause, the kids are exercising in the glorious California sun and it is supporting future “heroes.”  
We are asking kids to wear blue or anything spirit wear.   
The “super” volunteers will be bringing the kids masks and some kind of sticker or something to distinguish them as Hubbard's Heroes.
Kids can maybe pull out an old bath towel or sheet and make a super hero cape?  They can wear an excessively hot  rubber mask and jog for 30 minutes.    They can wear military camouflage, police or firemen outfits and look like our everyday heroes.  

Today’s news:
Lewis and Clark -- we learned about the Corps of Discovery's meeting with the Lakota a.k.a. Teton Sioux
It was a big stand off where the Lakota wanted our boats, we didn’t want to give them up.   Clark pulled out his sword and pointed it towards a Chief’s heart, Lewis had the cannon loaded up and ready to fire, and close to 100 Lakota warriors were ready to shoot their arrows.  Ask your son/daughter how that all played out.

Seaman --- they read about the Lakota/Corp standoff through the perspective of a historical narrative.

What is a setting?  How does one describe a setting?  Compare and contrast the setting in Seaman with Dublin 2012.  
The kids began working on a ven diagram and putting together a compare/contrast paragraph.  It will be due on Wednesday.

Library visit.

Math
More division practice and notetaking.   
We watched this movie in its entirety over 45 minutes, taking notes and discussing the various ways to divide.

If you or your child still thinks this is craziness, click here for further explanation regarding this method of division.  

Not updated notes because the notes are from the movie above.  
I did lower the homework to page 87  13-27 ODDS ONLY due on Friday
Students need to do fewer problems but use one of the “newer” methods that we have spent almost two hours practicing over the last two school days.  

They then had science for the day with Mrs. Cargo

They then had a class discussion on the “You Owe Me” assignment.  They discussed how they would have handled such a high peer pressure situation.  

We then reviewed our grammar lesson for the week which focused on conjunctions.  

Finally they ended the day rotating to Mrs. Cho’s class for more work on graphing.  

Kind regards,
Ron

Homework for the week:

Math:
page 87  13-27 ODDS ONLY due on Friday

Jaws A-Thon is on Friday.
If we can average $20 per student we could have Ms. McGovern dressed as a chicken dancing like this.
If you can help and volunteer on Friday during the Jaws A-Thon here is the link.  
Also our class needs a “theme” for the Jaws A-Thon, practical/easy ideas?  If someone wants to run with the theme, banners, or whatever please feel free to do that.   

Peace Maker applications were offered to students.  They have to be completed by Oct. 1st if a student would like to be a peacemaker.  

Free-write due on Friday
A “free” free-write.  Write about whatever you want to write about for 1 full page or 20 minutes.  Fiction/non-fiction -- whatever --just sit down and write

Comprehension due on Friday
P.B. 26 and 27

Thomas Jefferson due Friday

Spelling and vocab test on Friday:
Here are the words - this week is “Eye of the Storm”

Wednesday, #21 2012 2013 (9/26/12)

Today was “Primetime” since it was Day 21 of the school year....

First off:
The “Jaws A-Thon”  is this Friday.  
This is PFC’s big fund raiser for the year so we are asking that you harass family members and friends for at least $20 per student.    Let them know it goes to a great cause, the kids are exercising in the glorious California sun and it is supporting future “heroes.”  
That is right, we have a theme!!
We are asking kids to wear blue or anything spirit wear.   
The “super” volunteers will be bringing the kids masks and some kind of sticker or something to distinguish them as Hubbard's Heroes.
Kids can maybe pull out an old bath towel or sheet and make a super hero cape?  They can wear an excessively hot  rubber mask and jog for 30 minutes.    They can wear military camouflage, police or firemen outfits and look like our everyday heroes.  
Just have fun and wear some jogging shoes.  

Tuesday -- I apologize but the network computers went down until 4:30’ish.  
Here is the big part of what we accomplished:  

Regarding today:  
We graded last night’s math homework and took last second questions regarding the topic 3 math test.  
Then we took the topic 3 math test on multiplication.  Students that finished that early were able to work on the language arts assessment, IXL, discover their google account, work on homework or read in silence.  

Math lesson:
Our first lesson on the “new” division.
Here are the notes, I spent extra time going over this method.  
What I would suggest because people were visually frustrated with this new method, is to emphasize to people that this is a learning process and this will take time.  It is uncomfortable and it takes more time because it is new.  However it is something that they will master with more practice and experience.  
Please note though:  I changed the homework to 9-25 (ODDS ONLY!)
You will see in the notes that I posted that I already did #9 for them.  So they need to rewrite #9 and then do eight problems practicing with one of the new more challenging methods.  This challenging method will pay off in large dividends as we move onward through the challenging fraction computations this year.
If you or your child still thinks this is craziness, click here for further explanation regarding this method of division.  
Here is a short step by step of the three methods.


Vocabulary Skills....
We discussed how to a dictionary and how to find words.  We then discussed what year that dictionaries would become obsolete like my hard copy encyclopedia series that I have.  Why would anyone that possesses a tablet or a smartphone even consider picking up a dictionary to read and find a dictionary when either Siri or Google Voice will look it up for you in a split second.  

Regarding the vocab cards -- wow!  Some of the creativeness, the humor and skillfulness in creating the flash cards are amazing.

CNN students-Note Taking:
Quick today since it was collaboration Wednesday.    President Obama addressed the United Nations and defended the USA’s “freedom of speech.”  They discussed how President Obama and Romney would go about trying to help young people deal with the escalating college tuition costs.   Then they had a short description of Yom Kippur and the holiday’s significance.  

Google Accounts -- we are going to be the elementary test school for google accounts.  Students will be able to open and save documents and powerpoints using Google.   This allows for easy working on documents here at school and at home.   No email or flash drives, it is all stored in the “cloud.”  Students will have a DUSD only email that comes with the google account.  This email can NOT receive emails from outside DUSD and students can not successfully send emails outside the DUSD students/teachers.   They will also be given access to Google sites which will allow them to easily create website/blogs that they can share among themselves.  This allows us to have another type of way to show our work besides written documents or powerpoints.   It is exciting and it gets the students closer to learning further skills necessary to present their learning and their ideas in the 21st century.  

Kind regards,
Ron

Homework for the week:

Math:
page 80-81 9-25 ODDS ONLY  all due on Thursday
page 87  13-27 all due on Friday

Jaws A-Thon is on Friday.
If we can average $20 per student we could have Ms. McGovern dressed as a chicken dancing like this.
If you can help and volunteer on Friday during the Jaws A-Thon here is the link.  
Also our class needs a “theme” for the Jaws A-Thon, practical/easy ideas?  If someone wants to run with the theme, banners, or whatever please feel free to do that.   

Peace Maker applications were offered to students.  They have to be completed by Oct. 1st if a student would like to be a peacemaker.  

Free-write due on Friday
A “free” free-write.  Write about whatever you want to write about for 1 full page or 20 minutes.  Fiction/non-fiction -- whatever --just sit down and write

Comprehension due on Friday
P.B. 26 and 27

Grammar due on Thursday
P.B. 33, 34, and 35

Thomas Jefferson due Friday

“You Owe Me” due on Thursday -- complete sentences and complete thoughts.  

Spelling and vocab test on Friday:
Here are the words - this week is “Eye of the Storm”

Technology Tuesday 9/25/12

1.  Start off with Khan Academy and Singapore math. Here is the next installment.  Remember to take notes for it is a great way of learning math and there will be a quiz.
Click here to watch, take notes and learn with part 2

2.  Pearsonsuccessnet.com 
Go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/
Sign in and complete "at least" the first 12 questions.

3.  Brainpop movie and quiz on Conjunctions
Sign into Brainpop, watch the video, stop it and take notes, and when you get to the end take the quiz. 
Click here to take the quiz
Choose "Graded Quiz" -- at the end choose print , put your name on it and hand this to Mrs. Cooper so we can put this into the grade book.

4.  Try to get into Google Accounts.

5.  www.ixl.com
Focus on these lessons:

Multiplication

• F.1 Multiply by 1-digit numbers
• F.2 Multiply by 1-digit numbers: word problems
• F.3 Multiplication patterns over increasing place values
• F.4 Multiply numbers ending in zeroes
• F.5 Multiply numbers ending in zeroes: word problems
• F.6 Properties of multiplication
• F.7 Choose numbers with a particular product
• F.8 Estimate products
• F.9 Estimate products: word problems
• F.10 Multiply by 2-digit numbers: complete the missing steps
• F.11 Multiply a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number
• F.12 Multiply a 2-digit number by a larger number
• F.13 Multiply by 2-digit numbers: word problems
• F.14 Multiply three or more numbers up to 2 digits each
• F.15 Multiply by 3-digit numbers
• F.16 Multiply three numbers up to 3 digits each
• F.17 Multiply three or more numbers: word problems
• F.18 Inequalities with multiplication

Monday, #19 2012 2013 (9/24/12)

Day 19 in the 5th week.
Monday...Monday...Monday..

P.E. in perfect weather.  Not too hot and not too cold.  

Language Arts assessment...I promise this our last one for about 1 month.  

Math
Exponents.....
Here are our notes from today.  

Here is a series of six video lessons that explain exponents if your son/daughter have exponent amnesia when they get home tonight.  

Here is the brainpop movie on exponents.  

**Students were explicitly told to write the original problem and then write below the solution.  This allows for us to go CSI on it when they miss a problem.  

CNN students-Note Taking:
Things to ask your son/daughter about:  Iran & the US Congress, what is ROTC?, why do you join the ROTC?  Does Harvard have a ROTC program?  What day was the first day of Fall?  Do they have any ideas on how to solve or end teen-texting and driving?   Today they had to submit a write up with their ideas.  There were some creative realistic solutions.

Spelling Pretest:
Here are the words - this week is “Eye of the Storm”

Lewis and Clark -- today we discussed how the “Great Plains” were so awe-inspiring to the members of the Corps.  Also we saw how Lewis was an exceptional artist and scientist as he documents all the new plants and animals the Corps discovered.  

Google Accounts -- we are going to be the elementary test school for google accounts.  Students will be able to open and save documents and powerpoints using Google.   This allows for easy working on documents here at school and at home.   No email or flash drives, it is all stored in the “cloud.”  Students will have a DUSD only email that comes with the google account.  This email can NOT receive emails from outside DUSD and students can not successfully send emails outside the DUSD students/teachers.   They will also be given access to Google sites which will allow them to easily create website/blogs that they can share among themselves.  This allows us to have another type of way to show our work besides written documents or powerpoints.   It is exciting and it gets the students closer to learning further skills necessary to present their learning and their ideas in the 21st century.  
Kind regards,
Ron

Homework for the week:

Math:
Page 67  8-34 evens due on Tuesday
Page 72-73 1 - 15 all due on Wednesday
Topic 3 test will be on Wednesday
page 80-81 9-26 all due on Thursday
page 87  13-27 all due on Friday

Jaws A-Thon is on Friday.
If we can average $20 per student we could have Ms. McGovern dressed as a chicken dancing like this.
If you can help and volunteer on Friday during the Jaws A-Thon here is the link.  
Also our class needs a “theme” for the Jaws A-Thon, practical/easy ideas?  If someone wants to run with the theme, banners, or whatever please feel free to do that.   

Peace Maker applications were offered to students today.  They have to be completed by Oct. 1st if a student would like to be a peace maker.  

Free-write due on Friday
A “free” free-write.  Write about whatever you want to write about for 1 full page or 20 minutes.  Fiction/non-fiction -- whatever --just sit down and write

Comprehension due on Friday
P.B. 26 and 27

Vocabulary due on Wednesday
P.B. 32 and the 5 mini-vocabulary posters
Spelling & vocab test on Friday.
Here are the words - this week is “Eye of the Storm”

Grammar due on Thursday
P.B. 33, 34, and 35

Thomas Jefferson due Friday

“You Owe Me” due on Thursday -- complete sentences and complete thoughts.