Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tomorrow is Halloween!
Just to confirm - students do not come to school in their costume.  I will give them time after computer and before the party to change, etc.
Thanks!

Homework:

Reading - - Read every day!
                   Reminder - - - record your pages in Kenya Connect log!
                   Vocab homework due Thursday

Math - - Journal page 83 #5 - #8
              Khan Academy video and worksheet (go to yesterday's blog or webpage for link)
              Dynamath due Tuesday, November 6th

Please note - Our class attends Camp Duncan Outdoor Ed Field Trip on Monday, November 5th!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012

Hi!

Happy Monday!

Homework:

Reading:  Read every night!
                 WTW homework due tomorrow.


Math:      Khan Academy video
                Journal Pg 83 #5 - #8  Due Wednesday, October 31
                Dynamath due Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thursday, October 25, 2012

It was so nice to be back in the classroom today!

Reminder - - tomorrow is PAJAMA DAY!

Homework:

Reading - - spelling test tomorrow

Math - - POW due tomorrow
              Skills tutor assignment due Monday
              3.1 Preview due Monday

Students need a hand held pencil sharpener.  Our electronic pencil sharpener has been put to rest. Thanks!

Enjoy your evening!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

It is good to be back in the classroom today!
We have 18/20 students in sports wear today!  That's a great start to Red Ribbon Week.

Tomorrow is wear red day!

This afternoon, we had former State Representative Jim Meyers visit our class.  He was able to tell the students about his experiences with politics and anwer many of their questions.  What a wonderful opportunity for our students.

Homework:

Reading:  Vocabulary Homework due Wednesday, October 24
                 Daily Reading, due Monday, October 29

Math:   POW, due Friday, October 26
                       When working on the POW, remember it is a 4-day weekend.  Assume that we leave for the trip on Thursday at 4 PM.
                       Topic 2 test Wednesday
                       Independent Projects due Thursday, October 25
                       

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday, October 22, 2012

Good Afternoon!
I was out of the class today, attending a literacy seminar.  I hope everyone had a fabulous day!  I am anxious to see you tomorrow.

This is from memory....
Reading - - read 20 minutes / daily reading log                       due Monday, October 29
                  WTW homework                                                due Tuesday, October 23


Math           Completed topic 2 study guide                            due Tuesday, October 23
                   Road Trip POW                                                 due Friday, October 26

Social Studies    Blog                                                            due Tuesday, October 23

I will post the Road Trip POW on the webpage, incase anyone needs an additional copy.

Have a great evening!

Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday, October 19, 2012

Happy Friday!

We finally were able to add a Friday song to our end of week!  I have gone through 2 IPod Docks so far. This past weekend, my daughter stopped by and showed me how to play my IPhone right through the computer. The students danced and talked for the last few minutes of the week.  A great new tradition has been started!

Math parents:  What a confusion we had with this week's POW.  I apologize.  Typically I create our POWs myself; this one I took from a book.  We have come to the conclusion that there were errors in the book.  Both the students and I were confused, as I heard many of you at home were too.  We had several conversations over the period of the week and agreed upon the following:  I will grade the POWs focusing on the computations.  Students will get points for correct work but no student will be penalized for not understanding the problem.  Everyone left math feeling this was reasonable.  Don't worry.  Next week's will be one I create!

Homework for the weekend:
Reading:  Daily Reading Log due Monday
Math:       30 minutes of IXL practice in preparation for Topic 2 test due Monday
Social Studies:  Roanoke Blog due Tuesday

Thanks!
Enjoy the weekend. It is suppose to be beautiful out!

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Good Afternoon!

Today during language arts, our students completed their first penpal letter to a student in Kenya.  We will write several penpal letters during Kenya Connect, giving students the opportunity to understand life in a culture very different from ours.
Here's the homework for tonight -

Reading:             read 20 minutes and record summaries in the daily reading log      Due Monday
                           study for WTW test                                                                           Friday
                           literature packet                                                                                 Friday


Math:                 Preview assignment                                                                           Friday
                           Division worksheet                                                                            Friday
                           POW                                                                                                   Friday

Have a wonderful evening!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Hi!
I had a class after school today, so I am still here....getting ready to be done for the day!
We had a fire drill this afternoon.  The students did a wonderful job of silently walking to our meeting spot and waiting for the all clear.

Homework:

Reading:        Log and Daily Reading       due Monday
                      Writing homework               due Thursday
                       WTW test                            Friday
                       Literature packet                 by Friday


Math:             Preview assignment         due Thursday
                       Multiplication worksheet        Thursday
                       POW                                due Friday

Social Studies   Atlas                             due Thursday

Have a great evening!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Good afternoon!

We had a great day today. Tuesdays are science days.  Mrs. Grimm joins us for an hour in the morning.  We have been studying variables.  This is in preparation for the upcoming 5th grade science fair.  Students need to have a clear understanding of the scientific process.  Today we built airplanes and students had the opportunity to experiment with them for a bit.  Next week will be the actual experiment.
Tuesdays is also our Frank Lloyd Wright day.  The AT math students are participating in an architecture unit in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Fund.  They are planning a house and creating a 3D scale model of their home.  Today they began placing it on the graph paper.  Next week, they begin building.

Homework:

Reading:           Read 20 minutes each day.  Fill our reading log.
                         Vocabulary:  12 important words worksheet due tomorrow.
                          Spelling test on Friday.

Math:                Divisibility worksheet due tomorrow.
                          POW due Friday.

Social Studies:  Atlas due Thursday.

Have a great night!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

Happy Monday!

I am happy to have a 5 -day week this week.  It is difficult to do everything I want to do in just 4 days!

Reading:    Read 20 minutes daily
                           **New:  Reading log.  Students are to write a summary about their at-home reading.      It will be turned in every Monday.

                  WTW homework - due tomorrow.  Additional practice sheets were sent home to be used at student's discretion.

                  Spelling test on Friday.
                  

Math:        2.4 page 50: write your own tables to solve.  One should have a positive exponent and the other should have a negative exponenet.

                  POW due Friday

                  Preview 2.5 due tomorrow


Social Studies:    Atlas due Thursday        

Friday, October 12, 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012

Happy Friday!
I don''t usually blog on Fridays, but there is homework over the weekend, so I wanted to be sure I posted it, just in case anyone forgot!

Math:    2.3 worksheet (adding and subtracting decimals)
             re-do Poor Jane POW
             Preview lesson 2.4

Reading:   read 20 minutes

That's all!

Have a great weekend!


Thursday, October 11, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Another late night for blogging!

We had a field trip to the Robert Crown center today.  We left after an early lunch and recess and got back just a short while before the end of the school day.  With that in mind, there really wasn't much homework tonight.

Reading:  Read 20 minutes
                Literacy packet due Friday

Math:      POW due Friday
               Signed parent letter and test due Friday

Hope you had a fabulous night!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

What a day!  Our time just flies by.

I had the opportunity to read one-on-one with several students today, resetting their reading levels and making goals for improvement.  That is one of the highlights of my job...seeing the excitement in a child's eyes when they have moved up several levels and they can see and hear the difference in their reading.

In math, we are doing a bit of reorganizing.  I was happy with today's lesson and hopeful that we are onto a good system.

Tomorrow if our field trip to Robert Crown Center.  Students will eat lunch and have recess earlier than usual.  We will leave Schiesher at noon and arrive back at approximately 2:30.

Today's homework:

Reading:                   Read 20 mintues daily
                                  Literacy Packet due Friday

Math:                         Preview 2.3 due Thursday
                                   Math 2.1 and 2.2 worksheet due Thursday
                                   POW due Friday
                                   Signed parent letter and test due Friday

Social Studies:           Atlas due tomorrow

Have a great night!
              

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Yikes!

Sorry I did not get this up before I left school today.

Homework:

Reading:           Read 20 minutes daily
                        Literacy Packet due Friday
                        No Spelling this week


Math              Signed Parent Letter due Friday
                      Preview 2.1 & 2.2 due tomorrow
                      POW due Friday

Social Studies    Atlas due Thursday

Thanks!

Robert Crown field trip on Thursday!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Tomorrow is Picture Retake Day!  Please let me know if you want retakes.  Thanks!

Reminder:  We are quickly approaching the end of our first of 2 4-day school weeks.  No School
Friday or Monday.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Wednesday Homework:

Reading:           Read 20 minutes each night (about 1/2 of my language arts students are behind in AR tests.  It is the same in Mrs. Yaniz's class.  Please read at home so you do not have to come in at recess to read, read, read!)

                          Literacy Packet is due tomorrow.

Math:                 POW due tomorrow
                          Topic 2 assessment will be completed tomorrow
                          Topic 3 pretest

Social Studies   Chapter 3 & 4 test tomorrow
                           Atlas due tomorrow

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Tuesday, Octobert 2, 2012

The AT students  had a beautiful day in Hyde Park.  We did the self-guided walking tour of the Wright 3 sites and visited the Robie House.  The students were fabulous and seemed to thoroughly enjoy their time in the city.

It is a busy test week.  We have a math test tomorrow and a social studies test on Thursday.  Spelling is on Thursday as well due to the 4-day school week.

Reminder:  Picture retake on Thursday!

Tuesday Homework:
Reading:  WTW packet due tomorrow
                 Literacy packet due Thursday
                 Spelling test on Thursday
                 Read 20 minutes each night

Math:        Topic 2 test tomorrow
                  POW due Thursday
          

Social Studies:   Cortes vs Moctezuma paper due tomorrow
                            Chapter 3 & 4 test on Thursday

Monday, October 1, 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012

What an unusual week we have!  First, we have two 4-day weeks in a row.  Second, tomorrow I am out with some of my students while the rest are here merged with Mrs. Yaniz's class.  However, they are always together for Language Arts and break up for various math teachers anyway, so that is really not too wierd.  Finally, I am not in the class Thursday afternoon; we have a grade level meeting.

Monday Homework Assignments:

Reading:  WTW home packet due Wednesday
                 Literacy packet due Thursday
                 Read 20 minutes
                 Spelling test Thursday

Math:       POW due Thursday
                 Topic 2 test Wednesday
                 
Social Studies:  Cortes vs Moctezuma paper due Wednesday (see assignment on webpage)
                          Explorers test on Thursday:  study using study guide

Picture make up day Thursday
I am still waiting on a few Robert Crown Center field trip forms.

Have a great night!