We spent the first 15 minutes of class working on assigned book reports related to various science topics being taught this year.
We also heard oral reports that students prepared from their Science Journal related to thier first home experiment dissolving salt in water and then letting the water evaportate to determine whether a physical or chemical [...]
Reviewed and corrected Lesson 22.
Taught/reviewed Lesson 23 which dealt which adding and subtracting mixed numbers and percentages. Mixed practice problems were assigned and will be due tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Again, I highly encourage all parents to review their child’s homework and sign to designate as much… thanks for all your help!
Students took their grammar exam for the 1st term. If your child was absent, they may take it at home by going to the following link www.mcarlson.myutips.org and clicking on the grammar test at the bottom of the page. For the most part, most students did fairly well.
Students worked on missing assignments as well as [...]
Corrected/reviewed Lesson 21 and taught concepts for Lesson 22.
Assigned mixed practice problems for Lesson 22 which will be due tomorrow.
Just a reminder to parents; all assigned homework must have a parents signature to get any credit for the assignment. I hope parents are spot checking their child’s math homework to ensure it is getting done [...]
For the many students that are absent… memorize “O Captain, My Captain” so that you can have it ready to pass off when you get back to school.
The class is still working on vocabulary words for Mastery 5 and catching up on some past work that is overdue.
Yesterday I assigned a book report to be [...]
For the foreseeable future, Ms. Marshall will be handling Service Learning for the 5th grade while I work with all 5th grade students on their multiplication facts.
It is imperative that they have the multiplication table memorized through 10’s and are fluent at working with these numbers at this point in their academic career. This skill set is [...]
We corrected Lesson 20 in class and reviewed for our comprehensive test on Lessons 16-20 which will be given tomorrow.
For those students who have been absent due to illness, don’t worry… I will get you caught up before the end of the term.
Two of our students are working on a video for You*Tube… can’t wait [...]
We started vocabulary words for the next unit of study and they are: aggressive, detect, dubiously, frustration, imprinted, materialize, migration, secretive, tolerated, cacophony, elude, and uncanny.
Students took a quiz on “The Giver” and we have two more chapters to finish the book. Upon completion of the book, a final exam will be given and a book report [...]
We corrected Lesson 18 and then worked on a cryptography puzzle. Students were developing some great ideas on how to solve it and we will continue to work on it from time to time.
Reviewed math concept for Lesson 19 “Finding the Perimeter” and assigned mixed practice problems for this lesson.
Comp. test for Lessons 16-20 will be [...]
We had the comprehension test on “Saving the Rain Forests” today and I wasn’t very happy with the results. Almost all of the students are doing well on their comprehension quizzes on “The Giver” and so I am having a hard time understanding why they are struggling with the comp. tests in the Scott Foresman series…
Students [...]