December 15, 2014

Homework:
TTM or sheet 43
Read or work on genre packet

Last Friday Mrs. Sargent was in for guidance and she played a trivia game with the kids.  Many of them did not know what trivia was.  This morning someone said,"Who?" and I answered, "Who's on first" No one knew what that was in reference to.  So, we watched Abbott and Costello's routine of Who's on First.  Now they have that bit of that trivia.  Everyone should know who Abbott and Costello are. Then we talked about The Muppets and Mahna Mahna, and watched that.  That brought us to a conversation about how I brought my children to Manhattan to be exposed to different things like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Which brought me to sharing the book, From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. This book is about a brother and sister who live in the Met after running away from home. (They are from a good home, but Claudia is a bit of an extrememist) While there they sleep in a four poster bed. "What is a four poster bed?" they asked. On to google images of four poster beds! It was a great morning of learning about things that you don't normally learn about formally, but are good for the mind.  The more prior knowledge/global knowledge a child has the easier it is to learn.  Connections are made.  Below are the links if you would like to watch them with your child.  Have a great night. **** I am out tomorrow.  The students know exactly what is expected of them!!!!
Who's On First
Mahna Mahna
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Getting to the Met

December 9, 2014

Homework:
TTM for at least 20 minutes or sheet 40
Read or work on your genre packet for 20 minutes

Today the students learned about coding. They worked on Khan Academy and Code Academy.  On Code Academy, if you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see an exercise on animating your name.

All activities for after school have been cancelled.  This includes the concert for tonight.  I am not sure about tomorrow night's concert yet.

December 3, 2014

Homework:
Math sheet 37 or TTM-record lesson and some of the work on your journal.
Read or work on genre packet for at least 20 minutes.
Ask your child what the suffix ulous means.

We read The Lorax this week as an introduction to suffixes.  It also highlights many of the problems our Earth still faces, such as deforestration.  I would like to watch the movie with the kids before break.  We will compare the book and the movie. They will also write an essay on how the book supports the learning we have been doing this trimester.  The movie is PG so I have to receive your permission to show it to your child.  I will send home a permission slip, but you can email me if that is easier.
Here is a link to the movie description The Lorax Movie .  We will also watch the original 1/2 show from TV.

December 2, 2014

Homework:
I was unable to photocopy sheet homework and TTM logs.  However, the students still can complete TTM.
We are studying suffixes and one of the suffixes we found this week in "ulous". I have challenged the class to try to find the meaning of this suffix.  They can do this instead of math.
Read, of course!!!!!!!!
There is not much time until our next vacation so in math we are going to spend a few weeks on decimals.  In science we will start force and matter.

December 1, 2014

No math homework tonight!  Read...... a status of the class will be taken tomorrow.