Monday, January 11, 2016

January 11th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Late Start on Wednesday
MATH
Barber: CFP
Brazier: Dividing Decimals
Martinez: Connecting Base Ten Pieces and the Standard Algorithm.
* HOMEWORK: “Base Ten and Standard Algorithm connection” due Monday tomorrow.  
We didn’t get much time on Friday to practice the standard algorithm but students insisted on doing the homework over the weekend, instead of waiting until Monday.  We practiced more today.  We talked a lot about how the picture explains the standard algorithm that us old folks have simply memorized.  
View the video below for a tutorial on this model.
* HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Partnerships use prompts to grow ideas.” Day 2
* ASK: “What are Push Your Thinking Prompts?”
Brazier: “Partnership talk has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
* ASK: “Summarize today’s reading for both Zane and the Hurricane and your partnership text.”
Martinez: “Partners push each other to talk longer and stronger.”
* ASK: “What did you say to your partner to get them to talk longer and stronger?”
WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets borrow structure from existing poems.” Day 3: “things that bother me…” poems.  
Brazier: “Poets sometimes follow the rules of a form.”
* ASK: “What are the rules to follow when writing a haiku?”

Martinez: “Poets sometimes follow a specific structure.”
SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  
Colonial America: Exploring the colonies.  What is the culture, the history, the civics and more about these areas.  Group discussion Friday.                                                                 
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
Word of the Day (fortunate). Analogies. Portfolio Submission.
SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Barber: Day One of the Skeletal System.
Martinez: No Science today.
Brazier: Made snowflakes.







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Friday, January 8, 2016

January 8th, 2016

MATH
Barber: Powers of Ten and Division Practice.
*OPTIONAL HOMEWORK: Review work
* CFP MONDAY
Brazier: CFP
Martinez: Connecting Base Ten Pieces and the Standard Algorithm.
* HOMEWORK: “Base Ten and Standard Algorithm connection” due Monday.  View the video below for a tutorial on this model.
* HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Partnerships use prompts to grow ideas.”
Brazier: “Partnership talk has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
* ASK: “Tell me about The Burger.”
Martinez: “Partnerships use prompts to grow ideas.”
* ASK: “What are Push Your Thinking Prompts?”
* HOMEWORK: Some partnerships have at-home reading to do this weekend.
WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets borrow structure from existing poems.” Day 2
Brazier: Freewrite Friday!
Martinez: “Poets use precise words.”
SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  
Colonial America: Exploring the colonies.  What is the culture, the history, the civics and more about these areas.                                                                   
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
Portfolio Submission
SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Barber: Made snowflakes.
Martinez: Finished last presentation.
Brazier: Finished last two presentations.








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Thursday, January 7, 2016

January 7th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Yearbook cover entries are due tomorrow.
MATH
Barber: Division Practice.
*HOMEWORK: SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS (all must be done traditionally and two must be forgiving method)  471÷5, 275÷9, 224÷8, 573÷6.  
* CFP MONDAY
Brazier: Division Practice
* CFP TOMORROW
Martinez: Powers of Ten and Division.
* HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
* ASK: “What do you notice about problems that have a ten for the divisor?”
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Partnership talk has a beginning, a middle and an end.”
Brazier: “Partnership talk has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
* ASK: “Tell me about ‘process time.’”
Martinez: “Partnership talk has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
* ASK: “Tell me about ‘the burger.’”


WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets borrow structure from existing poems.”

Brazier: “Poets convey strong emotions.”
* HOMEWORK: COMPLETE A COPYCHANGE OF THE POEM dog. DUE TOMORROW.
Martinez: “Poets use sensory details.”
SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  
Colonial America: Watch a Discovery Education video, Making of the 13 colonies.                                                                 
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
Word of the Day (irresolute). Spelling Sorts. Draft of an upcoming portfolio submission.
* ASK: “What does the prefix “ir” mean? What other prefixes can you think of? What is a prefix?’”
SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Martinez’s class presented today.  Last presentation will be tomorrow.
Mrs. Barber’s class finished all of the presentations today.

Brazier’s class continues presentations tomorrow.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

January 6th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Yearbook cover entries due Friday.
MATH
Barber: Traditional & Forgiving Method for division.
*HOMEWORK: SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS (all must be done traditionally and two must be forgiving method)  471÷5, 275÷9, 224÷8, 573÷6.  
Brazier: The Forgiving Method
* CFP ON FRIDAY
* ASK: “Did you attend the impromptu study session at lunch today?”
Martinez: Area Model for Division.
* HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
* HOMEWORK: Division practice problems due tomorrow.
Check out the following video that we watched today:
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Readers revise their plan.”
Brazier: How Partnerships Should Look, Sound and Feel
* ASK: “What did the reading partners in the video you watched today do especially well?”
Martinez: How Partnerships Should Look, Sound and Feel
* ASK: “What did the reading partners in the video you watched today do especially well?”


WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets borrow structure from existing poems.”

Brazier: “Poets copy-change.”
* ASK: “What’s a couplet?”
Martinez: “Poets use sensory details.”


SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)                                                                   
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Martinez’s class will present Friday.
Barber and Brazier’s classes present on Thursday.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

January 5th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Yearbook cover entries due Friday.
MATH
Barber: Forgiving Method for Division.
*HOMEWORK: SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS, REPRESENT IT WITH A RECTANGLE AND CREATE FACT FAMILIES: 73240÷8, 5940÷2, 573÷4, 39,371÷7
Brazier: The Traditional American Algorithm for Division
* CFP ON FRIDAY
* HOMEWORK: COMPLETE THE 5 DIVISION PRACTICE PROBLEMS. CHECK YOUR ANSWERS BY MULTIPLYING OR SOLVING IN A SECOND WAY.

Martinez: Array Model for Division.
* HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
* HOMEWORK: Division practice problems due tomorrow.
Check out the following video that we watched today:



READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Readers agree and stick with an initial plan.”
Brazier: “Partners agree and stick to an initial plan.”
* ASK: “How does it feel to have more than one text going at the same time?”
Martinez: “Partners agree and stick to an initial plan.”
* ASK: “What book are you reading with your reading partner?  How did your first meeting go today?”



WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets use sensory details.” DAY 2
Brazier: “Poets copy-change.”
* ASK: “Do you remember any lines (or maybe just a few words) from the poem you created today?”
Martinez: “Poets remember all they know about good writing to craft poems.”


SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)
Nystrom Atlas.  Discovery Education video: Making of the thirteen colonies.                                                                               
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Martinez’s class presented today.  Not finished yet.
Barber and Brazier’s classes present on Thursday.






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Monday, January 4, 2016

January 4th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Welcome back!
MATH
Barber: Review the Area Model and the Forgiving Method.  Check out these link & link 2.

Brazier: The Area Model of Division and the Traditional American Algorithm

Martinez: Introduction of Division.
* ASK: “How are multiplication and division related?”
HOMEWORK (Optional): Continue working on the Christmas break math packet.  Turn it in for a prize.
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Readers give books a chance.”
* ASK: “What did you learn about your partner today? What ‘buddy book’ did you two select?”
Brazier: “Readers give books a chance.”
* ASK: “What did you learn about your partner today? What ‘buddy book’ did you two select?”
Martinez: “Readers give books a chance.”
* ASK: “What did you learn about your partner today? What ‘buddy book’ did you two select?”



WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Poets use sensory details.”
Brazier: “Poets copy-change.”
Martinez: No Writing.  Extended reading workshop due to first day of partnerships.


SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)
Nystrom Atlas.  Discuss nonfiction text features and read about the three colonial regions.                                                                                       
EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
Words of the Day (resolution/resolve/resolute). Spelling Sorts. Cardboard Challenge Presentations.

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
Planning for presentations.
Martinez’s class presents tomorrow.
Barber and Brazier’s classes present on Thursday.







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