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Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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:
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:
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
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
- Title your Recipe
- Put your name below the title of your recipe
- Put your mother's name below the title of your recipe
- 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
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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:
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
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.
Monday, May 2, 2011
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.
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.
I also have put all of the internet information about Camp Arroyo CLICK HERE FOR THE SERIES OF LINKS
Monday, May 2, 2011
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| 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:
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.
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.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Medicine Procedures and Forms for Outdoor Education
All of your forms can be found by CLICKING HERE Field Trip Medication Administration Form and a Medication Administration Consent Form must be filled out and signed by a doctor for all medication listed on the Health History form.
The need for a doctor’s autograph includes over the counter medicine.
These forms need to be turned in by Monday, April 16, 2012.
Prior to Handing Over Medication for Camp:
- Medicine needs to come in the Monday prior to the trip (April 16, 2012).
- Medication is in a properly labeled pharmacy bottle or original packaging with name written on it and matches:
- the Field Trip Medication Consent Form and
- the Medication Administration Consent Form.
- Medication and consent forms are placed in a ziploc bag labeled with the student name.
After Camp – Procedures and Timeline:
Upon return to school, any remaining medication will be returned by a designated teacher and stored in Health Office for pick up by a parent/guardian.
Parent/guardian to sign off on pick up of medication.
Medication not returned to parent/guardian remains locked and stored and must be properly disposed at the end of the school year.
Medication forms already completed in the health office will be copied for camp.
- It is not necessary to complete new forms for students with Action Plans.
- If parent request medication to be sent from the Health Office, camp health forms must indicate source of medication.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sorry that this is my first communication this week. It has been a tough week, my 93 Camry died on me Sunday so we are down to one car at home, I had to go in for some minor surgery on Wednesday, and my mom’s family all live in the part of Alabama devastated by Mother Nature and I couldn't find out their status for a day. It was a looong 24 hours between communique because they were down power and cell service but this morning via voicemail/Facebook, they confirmed they were all ok.
Anyway -- at school we are in the heart of test prepping for the next two weeks.
In case you forgot:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the next two weeks will be test taking.
So we spend a great portion of the day using the response devices, discussing test taking strategies and reviewing skills necessary for language arts, math and science.
So we have been reviewing the most challenging math concepts. We took a survey on Tuesday and I asked students to tell which concepts they need to see and practice with. The two most popular were work with adding/subtracting with positive & negative integers AND multiplying/dividing with decimals & fractions.
Tonight’s homework is working on the fractions & decimals and completing the large math packet given to them on Tuesday. It is 60+ problems but they were encouraged and given time to realistically complete 20 problems per day so it would not be a big homework issue tonight.
If you need answers to the math handouts and you want to see our notes CLICK HERE.
In today’s math time we did some extra work on circumference and area of a circle.
Note above and CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT KHAN ACADEMY VIDEO ON CIRCLE BASICS
We did some poetry discussions on one of my personal favorite poems “The Road Not Taken”
Tonight’s poem work is “If”
All of our poems can be found here CLICK HERE
Students have one more evening of reading practice for state testing. Tonight’s reading is Scarecrows Then and Now -- about facts versus opinion
Passages (page 68-69) --- what is the main idea of the paragraph
Homework:
Math
1. handout on multiplication division decimals and fractions
2. handout on the toughest concepts for 5th grade math
both packets found right here and it includes answers
The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday is also in the link above
Language Arts:
See above the handout about facts/opinion and main idea
Poetry
See above for the link, it is the poem “If”
Science
Read and do the pages on the 148-150
Cargo rotation -- students need get their incomplete assignments in ASAP
May Testing Review:
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
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Anyway -- at school we are in the heart of test prepping for the next two weeks.
In case you forgot:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the next two weeks will be test taking.
So we spend a great portion of the day using the response devices, discussing test taking strategies and reviewing skills necessary for language arts, math and science.
So we have been reviewing the most challenging math concepts. We took a survey on Tuesday and I asked students to tell which concepts they need to see and practice with. The two most popular were work with adding/subtracting with positive & negative integers AND multiplying/dividing with decimals & fractions.
Tonight’s homework is working on the fractions & decimals and completing the large math packet given to them on Tuesday. It is 60+ problems but they were encouraged and given time to realistically complete 20 problems per day so it would not be a big homework issue tonight.
If you need answers to the math handouts and you want to see our notes CLICK HERE.
In today’s math time we did some extra work on circumference and area of a circle.
Note above and CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT KHAN ACADEMY VIDEO ON CIRCLE BASICS
We did some poetry discussions on one of my personal favorite poems “The Road Not Taken”
Tonight’s poem work is “If”
All of our poems can be found here CLICK HERE
Students have one more evening of reading practice for state testing. Tonight’s reading is Scarecrows Then and Now -- about facts versus opinion
Passages (page 68-69) --- what is the main idea of the paragraph
Homework:
Math
1. handout on multiplication division decimals and fractions
2. handout on the toughest concepts for 5th grade math
both packets found right here and it includes answers
The M,M,M, and R rap due next Friday is also in the link above
Language Arts:
See above the handout about facts/opinion and main idea
Poetry
See above for the link, it is the poem “If”
Science
Read and do the pages on the 148-150
Cargo rotation -- students need get their incomplete assignments in ASAP
May Testing Review:
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
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Science Review for April 27, 2011
Today you will have an opportunity to read through the released test question, do research, and use your test taking strategies to answer the test questions (11-60);
CLICK HERE TO OPEN UP DOCUMENT
Review questions 11 through 60;
If you don't know an answer to a question, use your investigative and inquisitive skills.
I strongly recommend using these links to start your investigation:
:
CLICK HERE FOR 4TH GRADE SCIENCE REVIEW
CLICK HERE FOR 5TH GRADE SCIENCE REVIEW
Just click onto the Life Science, Earth Science or Physical Science; They contain great interactive lessons.
Still can't find what your looking for here are some ideas:
talk with someone near you about science, use your science book, google the term or science phrase you need to learn more about, and try www.brainpop.com
The main thing, use this time wisely. Let's see if we can 100% on the smart responses tomorrow!
CLICK HERE TO OPEN UP DOCUMENT
Review questions 11 through 60;
If you don't know an answer to a question, use your investigative and inquisitive skills.
I strongly recommend using these links to start your investigation:
:
CLICK HERE FOR 4TH GRADE SCIENCE REVIEW
CLICK HERE FOR 5TH GRADE SCIENCE REVIEW
Just click onto the Life Science, Earth Science or Physical Science; They contain great interactive lessons.
Still can't find what your looking for here are some ideas:
talk with someone near you about science, use your science book, google the term or science phrase you need to learn more about, and try www.brainpop.com
The main thing, use this time wisely. Let's see if we can 100% on the smart responses tomorrow!
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