Monday, #34 2012 2013 (10/15/12)

Happy Monday! Day 34!  

We returned to our late summer weather.   Maybe fall in Northern California will only be 4 days this year?  

Quick today because the Giants are on and I had Devin duty after school.  My wife who is also a teacher, her school held their conferences this week).  

Today’s breakdown:

P.E.  - Volleyball is going on right now.

Upon the return to class, everyone completed our weekly spelling pretest, the students completed their chapter 4 test, worked on ixl, and began some of the homework for the week.  

We then read some Seaman.  Today we learned how Seaman protected the entire Corp of Discovery from night roaming buffaloes and even grizzlies.  

Math - all about statistics.
Now that we have mastered division we are going to use that skill.  Students are going to compute average, median, mode and range.  
Most of the notes today were taken while we watched Brainpop’s movie on statistics.  
Here are the notes:
Here is the brainpop movie
Here is the Khan academy lesson on today’s statistic lessons.
Here is the Khan academy examples of median, mode and range.
Students were also offered an opportunity for extra credit.  They need to memorize the a statistics “rap” and perform it either live or video/edit it and send it to me.
Here is the rap.


CNN for students --
Ideas that we discussed today (we had discussions, the students did not write and take notes due to time constraints).  
The European Union earned the Nobel Peace Prize; spanish words are everywhere in our modern day English, the Endeavour makes it way through Los Angeles and we watched the interview with the man that jumped down 24 miles and broke the sound barrier.  

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

"Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all."

Richard Branson

Homework for the week:
Math:
Page 432 11-22 all + Page 434 1-9 all due on Tuesday, October 16th
Page 112-113 1-21 all due Wednesday
Page 115 1-25 all due Thursday
Page 119 1-31 odds due on Friday

Vocabulary work is all due Wednesday
5 challenge words “mini posters”
p.b. 63 and 72
Here are the words

Reading Comprehension
page 66 and 67 due Thursday
the Cafeteria due Thursday

Grammar due Friday
pb 73, 74 and 75

Theme 1 test is on Wednesday, here is the study guide
**p.b. pages 3 - 57 (rip out the pages and turn in)
students only responsible for the 25 pages that I have assigned in previous weeks.  it is just a way of quality control checking and makes their super large p.b. more manageble

Van Buren, Harrison and Tyler due Friday

Free-write due Friday
describe the ultimate candy bar

Science 168 and 169 + vocab cards must be done Tuesday

Debate number 2 is extra credit on Tuesday

Thursday, #32 2012 2013 (10/11/12)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

With the A’s playing tonight and some kids interested in the Vice President’s debate I tried to give the students ample opportunity to lesson their homework responsibilities for tonight.

Through a series of rotations every student was extended the opportunity to work 40 minutes on the computer and then 40 minutes to work silently at their desks on homework.  Therefore students were able to complete free-writes, complete math homework, all other types of homework, practice division on IXL.com, brainpops and their European Explorer reports.

We had the library today and the kids did a great job actively participating in the circle read and staying quiet as the library is also being used for intervention real-estate.

We had a celebration regarding our school’s 50 point growth with the state’s API scores.    The kids were a big reason for the jump since their class accounted for ¼ of the scores.  So we took time out to pat ourselves on the back.  

Math-- We reviewed a few of the Singapore methods for last night’s division problems.  
Test is tomorrow.

CNN Students:  
Day of the Girl is today.  We discussed a story of a young girl that spoke out against gender bias and the need for all her people to be educated and how Taliban bullies brought her physical harm.  
We also discussed tonight’s Vice President debate with Biden versus Ryan.  

We rotated today with the students continuing to learn about space.

Then the rotated to Mrs. Cho’s class and continued practicing with math/art.  

At some point in the day we were able to focus on our priorities and we caught this live as it happened.  



Social Studies -- this week Mrs. Cooper and the students have been learning all about the checks & balances and the three branches of our Federal government.  




Once again the students were literally given 80 minutes to work on homework, practice skills or research for projects therefore homework should be somewhat mellow.  

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 106 and 107 1-14 all due on Friday
Test is on Friday
Page 432 11-22 all + Page 434 1-9 all due on Tuesday, October 16th

Vocabulary:
Review your mini poster cards -- must know the 10 that were given on pretest
Final definition review is on Friday

Spelling:
Nature’s Fury Spelling Review
Page 409

Math/Art
Due on Friday  “Eight Pointed Star”

Theme 1 Study Guide
Theme 1 test will be on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Andrew Jackson worksheet is due on Friday

Free Write due on Friday
Must include a fish, the moon, a rainbow and sleeping/napping

Grammar due on Friday
Subject meet predicate
Sentence Sense

Tuesday, #30 2012 2013 (10/09/12)

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

It was a unique and crazy day.   I am out all day today and all day on Wednesday due to district mandated training.  However the class is in wonderful hands with Mrs. Cooper.  

Students had their usual Technology Tuesday.  Click here to see what it was all about.   

We then had a 60+ minutes assembly on the beauty and mystery of science.   

We then rotated the remainder of the day.   Therefore the students had Mrs. Cargo’s science and Mrs. Cho’s math & art rotation today.

**Due to the length of the assembly we did NOT review last night’s math homework.  Therefore the students do NOT have any math homework tonight.  I will also update the homework below to reflect that math change.

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 100 7-18 all due on Wednesday
Page 103 and 104 4-12 all due on Thursday
Page 106 and 107 1-14 all due on Friday
Test is on Friday
Page 432 11-22 all + Page 434 1-9 all due on Tuesday, October 16th


Vocabulary:
Review your mini poster cards -- must know the 10 that were given on pretest
Final definition review is on Friday

Spelling:
Nature’s Fury Spelling Review
Page 409

Math/Art
Due on Friday  “Eight Pointed Star”

Theme 1 Study Guide
Theme 1 test will be on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Andrew Jackson worksheet is due on Friday

Reading Comprehension:
“Teen Sleeping”  due on Wednesday
“Look for the main idea” due on Thursday

Free Write due on Friday
Must include a fish, the moon, a rainbow and sleeping/napping

Grammar due on Friday
Subject meet predicate
Sentence Sense

Technology Tuesday October 9, 2012

Reminder....please use FIREFOX only.  
Click here to insure you have the latest firefox.  
Just click yes or ok if it ask if it is ok to install.  

1.  Goto the Calflora.org website.  
Select zip code and then type in the city of Dublin’s zip code   94568    
Search for plants on the bottom.  
When the list of plants shows up on the bottom pick 1 plant, 1 weed, and 1 tree.  

• Write down the name of each and a description as well as a quick sketch in your notebook.  
• Also write down if you have seen it before.

2. Khan Academy -- Make sure to sign into your Google Account FIRST.  
You need to see that your name is showing in the top right hand side of the website.
You need to also have me as your coach.  If you didn’t do that already:

• Follow last week’s instructions.
• Ask Olivia, Joey, Justin, or Mary regarding how to do that.

3.  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 4

4.  Brainpop Movies (for a grade):
Watch this video first on “imagination”
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.

5.  Brainpop Movies (for a grade):
Watch this video on subject and predicate
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.

6.   CNN Students and taking notes
Click here to watch CNN from Monday.
Click here to watch CNN from Tuesday.

Click here to answer your CNN questions

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

7.  IXL on division
If you finish early work on your division:
5.NBT.6 Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

• Multiplication: Properties of multiplication (Fifth grade - F.6)
• Division: Division facts to 12 (Fifth grade - H.1)
• Division: Division facts to 12: word problems (Fifth grade - H.2)
• Division: Divide multi-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers (Fifth grade - H.3)
• Division: Divide multi-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers: word problems (Fifth grade - H.4)
• Division: Divide numbers ending in zeroes (Fifth grade - H.8)
• Division: Divide numbers ending in zeroes: word problems (Fifth grade - H.9)
• Division: Divide by 2-digit numbers (Fifth grade - H.10)
• Division: Divide by 2-digit numbers: word problems (Fifth grade - H.11)
• Division: Choose numbers with a particular quotient (Fifth grade - H.14)

Monday, #29 2012 2013 (10/08/12)

Today was all about "large" division!

Monday, October 8, 2012

It was a fun filled Monday....

We started the day by finishing our thank you letters to the Lawrence Livermore Lab.  Students that completed that were allowed to read silently.  

After that we completed our spelling pretest for the week.  

We then did an extra long session of Lewis and Clark.  
Today’s big events were:

• The Continental Divide
• Seeing the origin of the Missouri River
• Trying desperately to find the Shoshone Indians
• Sacagawea and Chief Cameahwait

We discussed what the “Great Coincident” was all about.  We will now catch up to this lucky even in our Seaman book.  

Math:
Today’s big lesson, via Miss Sandy, why estimating well is actually taking a shortcut.  
With many of the students “falling for” the guess & check or the stacking method, the strategies biggest challenge is when students guess in small increments (e.g. using only 10, 100, 1000 instead of 40, 70, 900 etc..) since these can take a long vertical path on the homework.

However we rationalized that if you estimated and generally rounded down  before working on the problem you can use your estimation as a starting point for your guess & check or stacking method.  

We did two examples of this today.  Click here to see our two examples.  

We completed our day with taking the time to write up our homework into our day planners and to begin working on that homework.  

Finally I did print up a high level progress report for everyone using www.engrade.com   This allowed students to see how they were doing with their classwork and their homework so far.   At this point about 60% of the class has logged in, set up their account and looked at the account at least once.  

Class Dojo -- I also sent a report that captured all of the month of September.  It now allows for the system to have more than one email so if you would like to be added please shoot me an email.  

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:
Math
Page 100 7-18 all due on Tuesday
Page 103 and 104 4-12 all due on Wednesday
Page 106 and 107 1-14 all due on Thursday
Test is on Thursday
Page 432 11-22 all + Page 434 1-9 all due on Friday


Vocabulary:
Review your mini poster cards -- must know the 10 that were given on pretest
Final definition review is on Friday

Spelling:
Nature’s Fury Spelling Review
Page 409

Math/Art
Due on Friday  “Eight Pointed Star”

Theme 1 Study Guide
Theme 1 test will be on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Andrew Jackson worksheet is due on Friday

Reading Comprehension:
“Teen Sleeping”  due on Wednesday
“Look for the main idea” due on Thursday

Free Write due on Friday
Must include a fish, the moon, a rainbow and sleeping/napping

Grammar due on Friday
Subject meet predicate
Sentence Sense

Thursday, #27 2012 2013 (10/04/12)

Corps of Discovery had many run ins with these "cuddly" creatures.

Day 27

Tomorrow PFC would highly appreciate the turning in of the Jaw’A Thon money.  Remember a $20 per student average will bring chickens and Gangnam Style to DES.  

We began the day with some minor assessment times, complete tests, silent reading time, and working on projects.  

Then we continued heading West with our Corp of Discovery.  They leave the Mandans, find a literal fork in the road, and come face to face with some of the most majestic waterfalls that you will ever see.   Most exciting was reading the journal entries of the Corps as they came face to face with the North American Grizzly Bear.   They had little no predator ahead of them on the food chain and they were humongous and fierce.  

In our Seaman book the Corp is also heading further West after leaving the Mandans.   The book spends time discussing how the entire Corp must work together to keep Seaman alive after she is bit by a beaver.  

Library visit -- students used that time to either check out books or complete homework.

Math:
Dividing numbers with larger quotients and divisors.
We discussed how the “cupcake” or the “circle method” would not be advisable because few of us have the time to write out 79 circles.   
The guess & check and the stack’em method would be the best options.  
Also when possible the prime factorization method will help you simplify the fraction (aka the division problem).
95% of the kids claim to really understand some of the newer methods.   I think if they have a choice they may actually use the guess & check or the stack’em method over the traditional style.
Here are our day of many examples.

CNN Students
We took notes and wrote about the last two days worth of news.  
Wednesday’s focused a big chunk of time on historical debate mistakes.
Nixon/JFK, Ford vs Carter, “There he goes again,” “I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience,”  Bush Sr. checking his watch, and Al Gore sighing numerous times.  

Today’s did  a great job of comparing and contrasting some of the basic economic philosophies and their view of government’s role.  They then had a great piece on how the Hispanic vote is a growing force in American politics and how both parties are making efforts to increase Hispanic voter turnout and to influence their political allegiances.  

We reviewed this week’s grammar lesson on plural nouns.  

We also reviewed the comprehension skill of “summarizing.”  

We ended the day with more work on the three branches of government.  Ask them to explain “checks and balances” and what the roles of the legislative, judicial and executive branches are.  

Kind regards,

Mr. Hubbard

Homework for the week:

Math
All chapter 4 notes are found here.
Page 97 11-22 all due on Friday

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

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.