We worked very impressively today. Much progress was made on National History Day projects. We will have a grand presentation of projects on Thursday (changed from previous notice of Wednesday) January 5th in the library. Parents will be welcome to the event. Students will display their projects as if at the National History Day event in Montpelier. Students will offer questions and compliments to each project. Ms. Lamb will fill out the judging form. I may do some negotiating with Mr. Meadows regarding the times, so I will get back to you on that....but sometime between 8 and 10 am.
Book groups wrapped up today. We will meet one last time on Tuesday after vacation to finish our theme journal entry. We begin nonfiction reading groups on January 10th.
Homework tonight:
Work on your project in some way or form. I will be watching a video and writing up some of my sections.
Read your self chosen novel
Have a wonderful vacation!
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Monday/Tuesday 12.19&20
Hello,
I forgot to post this yesterday.
This week our major focus is to work on our National History Day Project (Taking a Stand in History). Since science is between topics right now, we have sacrificed our science time for working on projects, with one small exception. On Wednesday we will have another rocket launch after la and math.
Yesterday we learned how to make boxes and bullets for our project. Here is an outline and Ms. Lamb's example (not 100% done, but you get the idea.)
Outline
Example
Many students got their trifold yesterday and began thinking out what goes on it. I strongly advise to use paper and tape for your drafts. If you are like me, you will change your mind A LOT.
Homework:
No math yesterday (test and no skill sheet this week)
(Also, no word study this week)
READ - especially book club books which are to be finished by Wednesday
Choose your own homework regarding your NHD project - read, outline, watch videos
Try to squeeze in 10 minutes of edutyping (at least) this week for homework.
Today,
Also no math homework - same LA as yesterday
Choose your own project work
READ
I forgot to post this yesterday.
This week our major focus is to work on our National History Day Project (Taking a Stand in History). Since science is between topics right now, we have sacrificed our science time for working on projects, with one small exception. On Wednesday we will have another rocket launch after la and math.
Yesterday we learned how to make boxes and bullets for our project. Here is an outline and Ms. Lamb's example (not 100% done, but you get the idea.)
Outline
Example
Many students got their trifold yesterday and began thinking out what goes on it. I strongly advise to use paper and tape for your drafts. If you are like me, you will change your mind A LOT.
Homework:
No math yesterday (test and no skill sheet this week)
(Also, no word study this week)
READ - especially book club books which are to be finished by Wednesday
Choose your own homework regarding your NHD project - read, outline, watch videos
Try to squeeze in 10 minutes of edutyping (at least) this week for homework.
Today,
Also no math homework - same LA as yesterday
Choose your own project work
READ
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Thursday 12.15.16
Today we worked on organizing our notes into categories.
Organizing your research
- Background - who? what? when? where? etc.
- Stand - describe it, why was it needed? how did it happen? how was the person (if there is a person) instrumental?
- What were the long time effects? What happened because of the stand?
Tomorrow we will write flash drafts in class. This means students get three pieces of paper (or make three pages on google docs) and just write the information they know for each subtopic. More research can be done, but this will make clear what they need to find out. Also, it will get to writing in our own voice.
Next week we begin working with our trifolds. Each student only gets one so measure twice and cut once. We will also learn how to patch and cover over - great life skills.
Mr. Meadows is finishing a science unit this week, so we can work on trifolds all afternoon Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
We are taking Thursday as a celebration day. The BRMS fun committee has organized a concert in the morning where the band and chorus will show their "stuff." The last hour of the day will be "minute to win it" contests in the gym.
The time back at class will be spent watching the BFG movie.
Homework tonight:
Math: Skill sheet (maybe more...not sure yet.)
LA: word hunt for word study, make sure day 1,2,3 and 4 are done by tomorrow
continue research ready to flash draft in class tomorrow
READ for 20 minutes - book club book or your own choice. Come as close as you can to finishing the book by next Tuesday.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Wednesday 12.14.16
Today was late start day. That always throws us into a tizzy. We got a lot accomplished however. In LA we did some reading and word study and then finished our reading posts on seesaw. One group had no internet on Friday, so they were behind. All are caught up now. If not, please finish at home.
In afternoon class, book clubs met and read journal entries about villains. Then we finished our seesaw.com post and continued with our NHD research.
Homework:
Math Skill sheet due Friday
Science - answer question about friction inertia and gravity get a sled down the hill
LA: continue reading two printed articles - be ready to show ten notes tomorrow
Read novel 20 minutes
In afternoon class, book clubs met and read journal entries about villains. Then we finished our seesaw.com post and continued with our NHD research.
Homework:
Math Skill sheet due Friday
Science - answer question about friction inertia and gravity get a sled down the hill
LA: continue reading two printed articles - be ready to show ten notes tomorrow
Read novel 20 minutes
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Tuesday 12.13.16
I hope you had a happy snow day.
Today we had to catch up a bit due to our unexpected "day off." We started our new word study and sentences are assigned for homework so we can be caught up by tomorrow.
We found a PRINTED HARD COPIES of articles for our research. We made folders with our names and stapled and put our names on articles. These are coming home tonight for continued reading and note taking.
Our book clubs met today. Many students are finishing book club books. Groups may choose a second book tomorrow.
Tonight's homework:
Math: Skill sheet - due Friday
LA: Read and take 5 notes from an article in your folder. Complete word study sentences. Work for an honest 20 minutes on both and you can finish tomorrow in class.
Reading: Read novel 20 minutes ( book club book?)
Tomorrow is LATE START.
Today we had to catch up a bit due to our unexpected "day off." We started our new word study and sentences are assigned for homework so we can be caught up by tomorrow.
We found a PRINTED HARD COPIES of articles for our research. We made folders with our names and stapled and put our names on articles. These are coming home tonight for continued reading and note taking.
Our book clubs met today. Many students are finishing book club books. Groups may choose a second book tomorrow.
Tonight's homework:
Math: Skill sheet - due Friday
LA: Read and take 5 notes from an article in your folder. Complete word study sentences. Work for an honest 20 minutes on both and you can finish tomorrow in class.
Reading: Read novel 20 minutes ( book club book?)
Tomorrow is LATE START.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Thursday 12.8.16
Today we had a lesson from Ms. Lamb on note taking. Everyone needs to have a text source (preferably a book) and Ms. Lamb will search one down and buy it if necessary.
She showed a page from her book on Nelson Mandela that she felt related to the stand that he took. The paragraph talked about his father being a chief and naming him Rolihlahla which meant tree shaker or trouble maker. This shows that from the start he was raised to stand up to wrongs.
My notes look like this:
Rolihlahla - tree shaker/trouble maker
father chief in S. Africa
Notice my thinking entry and my jotted notes in note form
Ms. Lamb will check in on notes again on Monday expected to see bulleted or separate notes on sticky notes.
Students also finished through day 4 of word study.
Homework
Math: skill sheet due tomorrow
LA: continue working on your notes - work for 20 minutes
Read 20 minutes. Be sure you are on goal for tomorrow with pages read for book club book.
She showed a page from her book on Nelson Mandela that she felt related to the stand that he took. The paragraph talked about his father being a chief and naming him Rolihlahla which meant tree shaker or trouble maker. This shows that from the start he was raised to stand up to wrongs.
My notes look like this:
Rolihlahla - tree shaker/trouble maker
father chief in S. Africa
Notice my thinking entry and my jotted notes in note form
Ms. Lamb will check in on notes again on Monday expected to see bulleted or separate notes on sticky notes.
Students also finished through day 4 of word study.
Homework
Math: skill sheet due tomorrow
LA: continue working on your notes - work for 20 minutes
Read 20 minutes. Be sure you are on goal for tomorrow with pages read for book club book.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Wednesday 12.7.16
Homework tonight:
Math: note - quiz tomorrow - these pages will help you, 19, 20, 21 - finish work from class
Skill sheet due Friday
LA: Continue notes - Ms. Lamb expects to see note form tomorrow 15-20 notes. Change paragraphs into notes
Read for 20 minutes - book club book or your own choice
Great work done today. Much research moving, a little cursive, reading clubs met, journal entries were finished and read, word study completed through day 3.
See you tomorrow!
Math: note - quiz tomorrow - these pages will help you, 19, 20, 21 - finish work from class
Skill sheet due Friday
LA: Continue notes - Ms. Lamb expects to see note form tomorrow 15-20 notes. Change paragraphs into notes
Read for 20 minutes - book club book or your own choice
Great work done today. Much research moving, a little cursive, reading clubs met, journal entries were finished and read, word study completed through day 3.
See you tomorrow!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Tuesday 12-6-16
Ms. Lamb was absent today but the kids did an excellent job with our guest teacher.
Homework tonight:
LA:
2 pages of notes for their History Day report should be completed
Read for 20 minutes
Completed 1 page of writing for the book group projects
Math:
Skill Sheet (due Friday)
Math Quiz likely this Thursday
Science:
We will be launching our final rockets today! Students have been learning about rockets for several weeks. We reversed engineered the first round of rockets to learn which designs went the farthest and worked to develop scientifically based reasons for why they may have performed the best. Kids have had a terrific time designing and building their rockets.
Wish us luck tomorrow!
Homework tonight:
LA:
2 pages of notes for their History Day report should be completed
Read for 20 minutes
Completed 1 page of writing for the book group projects
Math:
Skill Sheet (due Friday)
Math Quiz likely this Thursday
Science:
We will be launching our final rockets today! Students have been learning about rockets for several weeks. We reversed engineered the first round of rockets to learn which designs went the farthest and worked to develop scientifically based reasons for why they may have performed the best. Kids have had a terrific time designing and building their rockets.
Wish us luck tomorrow!
Monday, December 5, 2016
Monday 12.5.16
Well, I got to work at 9:20 today after leaving my house in Burlington at 6:40. So, the day went up from there.
Ms. Nicolle very aptly ran LA this morning until I got here. Everyone continued reading, working on their seesaw post and researching for National History Day.
In the afternoon, we got our new word study packets for the week. Today we did sort one. Ms. Lamb introduced us to cursive review packets OR learn cursive packets. This is low stakes...let's see if we can at least sign our names and read cursive. We will work on this about 10 minutes a day until Christmas vacation.
Tonight's homework:
LA: Read 20 minutes
Finish your seesaw journal entry or comment if you have computer access
Also, one lesson or 10 minutes of edutyping
Math: 19A and 19B
Ms. Lamb will be away tomorrow at a professional development day. Mrs. Turcotte should be here. Plans are to continue with all we did today.
See you Wednesday.
Ms. Nicolle very aptly ran LA this morning until I got here. Everyone continued reading, working on their seesaw post and researching for National History Day.
In the afternoon, we got our new word study packets for the week. Today we did sort one. Ms. Lamb introduced us to cursive review packets OR learn cursive packets. This is low stakes...let's see if we can at least sign our names and read cursive. We will work on this about 10 minutes a day until Christmas vacation.
Tonight's homework:
LA: Read 20 minutes
Finish your seesaw journal entry or comment if you have computer access
Also, one lesson or 10 minutes of edutyping
Math: 19A and 19B
Ms. Lamb will be away tomorrow at a professional development day. Mrs. Turcotte should be here. Plans are to continue with all we did today.
See you Wednesday.
Friday, December 2, 2016
Thursday/Friday
I forgot to post yesterday. Sorry.
The homework was
math: page 12 & 13 and finish skill sheet
LA: Write a journal entry telling what you know so far about your NHD topic
Read your book club book and/or free choice novel for 220 minutes
We had some read around time in LA today. We heard snippets of several excellent stories and students posted a favorite November writing on YWP so all students can see. We decided we will give the first 15 minutes of Friday LA time for volunteer readers and to share a line from the week for everyone.
We also organized our first trimester work into a folder on google drive for all writing. Ms. Lamb is assessment homework journals and google docs this weekend.
Report cards will be mailed home on Monday. Look for more description about that in this blog on Monday.
Have a great weeend.
The homework was
math: page 12 & 13 and finish skill sheet
LA: Write a journal entry telling what you know so far about your NHD topic
Read your book club book and/or free choice novel for 220 minutes
We had some read around time in LA today. We heard snippets of several excellent stories and students posted a favorite November writing on YWP so all students can see. We decided we will give the first 15 minutes of Friday LA time for volunteer readers and to share a line from the week for everyone.
We also organized our first trimester work into a folder on google drive for all writing. Ms. Lamb is assessment homework journals and google docs this weekend.
Report cards will be mailed home on Monday. Look for more description about that in this blog on Monday.
Have a great weeend.
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