Week 8 Day 5

Congratulations to the Watsons Go to Brimingham - Book Club Presentation Today.  We all learned how to conduct an effective discussion. Well done.

Student of the Week:  ALEX

Next Week
Make sure your announcements are ready. You will audition on Monday. Keep it simple but make it interesting! Make sure you practice the delivery beforehand. Use a vocaroo file to listen to how you sound.

SMART Targets - Due Monday. Think specifcally about what you want to improve.

Optional IXL work
B4, B29, B31, S10, S14
Sammy Snakes for the first three people to master  UNIT K

Check the H/W sheet above to make sure you are ready for the short, but busy week ahead!

Enjoy the first Friday Message again

Week 8 Day 4

Social Studies Assessment - Review Material
Make sure you clearly know these facts or can locate these palces on a map.

• 7 Continents    4 Major oceans   North and South Pole    Equator
• Know basic facts about these places (e.g. city, country/captial city, continent)
• USA   Russia   Italy   Spain  Mexico   Argentina   Canada   Iraq   Kenya
• South  Africa  London  Holland

Clayton class - next Tue.

Buxton class - next Wed.

Use these links to master the basic geogrphical facts that you are expected to know for continents, oceans, major countires and major cities of the world - You are NOT expected to know all these cities and capitals just what we covered in class

Easy
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G1_drag_drop.html
Hard
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_G4_name_input.html
harder-cities
http://www.mindjolt.com/games/world-cities

Optional - This is hard! Try for fun...I couldn't get past level 1
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/worldcapitals


H/W

Vocaroo - due: Fri (make sure you are creating accurate fluency). Copy your vocaroo link into a blog comment window. Next week- We will upload these to you own  blogs!

SMART Targets - Due: Next Monday - BE REALLY SPECIFIC

Kudos to all those people who have been using the vocabulary link to extend their  knowledge of words. Bravo!

Thank you to you all for my first gecko... that was sooooooooo sweet!

Week 8 Day 3

Sentence fluency Test is tomorrow. Make sure you are ready!

Study Link 3.6 and finish 3.5/3.6 Math Boxes

IXL B10

Today's speech on Civil Rights was simply superb! We will certainly be reading his book this year. I'm interested to see if you can go 'deep' into the onion and offer some feedback on what you learned or your emotions about what you heard. Try not to state the obvious, but think about his message and  how it might effect us today?

+1 points for 'deep' thoughts and contributions

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill

Week 8 Day 2

Homework
Math
Study link -3.5

Social Studies
NOTAs due tomorrow for Buxton class. Make sure you have each a printed copy. If you run into any technology problems tonight, find an alternative way to bring in your work. Read your work for accuracy of content and information BEFORE printing. Look at the WILF and the guidelines sheet for details of the specific information that should be included in your NOTA. - This is your first 'official' out of school collaborative deadline. Make it a successful one!

RLA
Do your BOOK CLUB preparations.: (Due Wed)
The Sentence Fluency test is postponed until THUR. Ues the extra evening to make sure you have tackled all the exercises on last night's blog post before then. Bring any questions you have about simple, compound or complex sentences to class for discussion.

Week 8 Day 1

H/W
This link below takes you to the exercises you need to do to practice for Wednesday's Sentence Fluency Test.  The more practice you do, the better you will perform. YOUR ASSESSMENT IS WEDNESDAY
Mr. Buxton's 5th Grade Class SAS: Setnence Fluency Test Practice (spend 15 mins on some tonight and 15 minutes on some tomorrow night)

RLA


Make sure you have at least 3 different SSS techniques in your Great Explorer Nota. (Bring a PRINTED version of your Nota to class on Wednesday. - We will have 45mins of class on Tuesday to work on your NOTAS

Remember: You can create a route for your Great Explorer by going to http://www.scribblemaps.com/
Math
Watch these videos to recap how to use a protractor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeclDm7pVcIb  (repeat from class today)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3IO6Uhtlp8&feature=related

Compulsory
Go to IXL and complete activities B.12 (Can you master using a protractor tonight?)