The Week: 4/28-5/2

Carnival on Friday!

Dunk your teacher and skip a section of homework.  For every time you dunk your teacher, you may skip one day of Geography, or one day of Big Idea, or one square of Spelling homework.

Incentives List:

 We decided on a technology afternoon.  If you finish all three Science assignments by recess on Friday, you may bring your technology on Friday afternoon for the last half hour of the day.

Vocabulary
Remember to study your vocabulary words for Monday!  You get to use your reference books to help you.  Also include ten new words to study!

Multiplying and Dividing by tens and hundreds:  (Notes)

 

Lesson 3 Application Problem:
Jack and Kevin are creating a mosaic by using fragments of broken tiles for art class.  They want the mosaic to have 100 sections.  If each section requires 31.5 tiles, how many tiles will they need to complete the mosaic?  Explain your reasoning with a place value chart.

Lesson 4 Application Problem:
Mr. Brown wants to withdraw $1,000 from his bank and in ten dollar bills.  How many ten dollar bills should he receive?

Science Demonstration:
Watch and tell me how this works:

The week: 4/21-4/25

Dear students,

When the very first vocab quiz I score looks like the one I chose, one of two things is going to happen. Either every one after it will be boring by comparison, or I will laugh so hard at the awesome humor included that I simply cannot score the rest.  While you contemplate this thought, please enjoy this cask of radioactive sewage:

We got the technology grant!!!

Here's a link to the site. You can go look and see what is coming. Hopefully we'll see it next week!

http://www.vernier.com/products/packages/elementary-science/labq2/

Vocab this week:

I finally did it!  I achieved my math goal!

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The Week: 4/7 - 4/10

No School on Friday!!!

Math goals

Don't forget to work on your math goals.  Mine is to increase my Khan Academy World of Math by 5 percent.  Just to keep myself honest, I am posting my current progress.  Don't forget to check in with me in two weeks to make sure I met my goal.  As you can see, I'm at 45% right now.

Day 2:

I have increased one percent.  Whoopie!  Here is an example of a problem that I have to do.  Unfortunately, I missed this one.  Can you guess why?  I'll give you a hint.  It's a kind of mistake I warn you about all the time, and you have all of the skills you need to spot it.  Can you?

Here are the notes we took about our multiplication knowledge.  Which of these ideas are most helpful to you?  Here is the video explaining how.  http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/multiply-a-mixed-number-by-a-fraction/19949870/?ref=app

Here is how we worked number three. Your work should look just like this.

Are you stuck on MYBH?  Try reading these excerpts:

Iceland

Iceland

Country

Iceland, sometimes referred to in full as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic island country marking the juncture between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Wikipedia

Capital: Reykjavik

Currency: Icelandic króna

Population: 320,137 (2012) World Bank

Continent: Europe

Government: Constitutional republic, Parliamentary republic

Colleges and Universities: University of Iceland, More

Source:  Google.com, search for "Iceland"

Japan

Japan

Country

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Wikipedia

Capital: Tokyo

Dialing code: +81

Population: 127.6 million (2012) World Bank

Prime minister: Shinzō Abe

National anthem: Kimigayo

Government: Unitary state, Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary system

Source:  Google.com, search for "Japan"

Atlantic

Source:  Google.com, search for "Atlantic."  These are the first three results.  Which on best matches the two items above?

Atlantic Records
atlanticrecords.com/

Atlantic Records
Features the music of popular artists with exclusive videos and interviews.
Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean

Wikipedia
The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second largest ocean, behind the Pacific Ocean. With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), ...
The Atlantic Cities
www.theatlanticcities.com/
The Atlantic Cities covers urban design, transit, planning, jobs, housing, and lifestyles all over the globe.

The week: 3/30-4/4

Mayor Elections!

The votes have been totaled and the results are in!  This was the most interesting collection of mayor speeches I have seen.  All candidates gave great speeches showing that they really understood the job of mayor.  One used the unusual prop of a globe to illustrate "having the world in my hands."  Another took a satirical approach, giving reasons not to be elected.  That person almost won!

The ballots were interesting to read.  One person wrote a small novel explaining their vote.  Another simply begged for a vote with the word, "Please."  I especially enjoyed the hearts written by some of the names by potential admirers.  Ah, it's Spring and love is in the air.

You're probably wondering who won.  Our next mayor is the sibling of a former student who often goes by the name of a Nintendo character.  Can you guess who?

 

 

 

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