January 15th 2016
LOOK AT THIS!!!!!
Look over the facts you wanted to use in your piece. Did you create a moment in time that reveals the historical figure's personality? Is there a theme throughout your piece? What is it? Does your piece make the reader want to know more about the historical figure's life? Share your piece with friends and family members to get an honest opinion.
Green Dreamer homework #2 - Work on your poetry and rap. Add some music to it and have fun! Come up with something that people want to listen to. Memorize it. Let's amaze Jerry even more!
W- 2nd draft of your historical fiction piece is due Monday. Remember to use your narrative rubric and the questions we discussed today to guide you.
-Is there a conflict in the piece? What kind?
(physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional)
-Did you reveal the character's personalities?
-Is there a theme in the piece?
-If you were to meet character in the piece, what would you say?
-Are there any symbols in the piece?
-Is this piece historically important? Why?
-Did the setting make the piece more meaningful?
-Do you think the writer was able to "wear the shoes" of the historical figure?
M- 43-46
Watch this website FDR Four Freedoms Park
JANUARY 7TH 2016
SS- Write what you learned about Brad Landers in your notebook.
W-Remember to integrate culture into your writing pieces.
Math- 8.1÷5 6.3÷4 3.74÷5 4.19÷5 4.2÷4 (show & check your work using multiplication)
Read- 30 minutes with parent signature
January 6th
JANUARY 7TH 2016
SS- Write what you learned about Brad Landers in your notebook.
W-Remember to integrate culture into your writing pieces.
Math- 8.1÷5 6.3÷4 3.74÷5 4.19÷5 4.2÷4 (show & check your work using multiplication)
Read- 30 minutes with parent signature
January 6th
Math- Pages 34, 35, 36, 38 Check your work with a calculator
Math-
1a)The length of a rectangle is 10 centimeters and the width is 6.25 centimeters. What is the area of this rectangle?
1b)If we put five of these rectangles together what would the total area be?
Read- 30 minutes. Get your notebook signed. I'll make time for you to visit the library tomorrow, as long as you're up-to-date on your reading log. Starting tomorrow, we will also be starting the second round of reading level checks. ;)
January 5th
DRESS WARM TOMORROW! We will eat lunch at school.
Math- 4,639 x 24 Without solving, can you use the logic strategy that we used today to predict the answer? 111,336 or 514,449
Joe ran 10 kilometers. How many meters did he run?
Tim had 50 dollars. He bought a pair of pants for $19.89 and a t-shirt for $6.73. What was the total amount of money he had left over?
The length of a room is 9.139 meters. What is the length of the room rounded to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and whole number?
A dairy makes 3,785 pounds of cheese each day. What is the total pounds of cheese made in dairy in 35 days? How many tries does it take you to get the correct answer? Time yourself and find out.
Choose from these four answers:
a)132,475
b)132,325
c)132,905
d)405,645
1a)The length of a rectangle is 9 centimeters and the width is 6.25 centimeters. What is the area of this rectangle?
1b)If we put four of these rectangles together what would the total area be?
S.S- Develop the small moment from your historical figure's life that you want to write about on Thursday. Make sure you've gathered all the correct facts that you'll need. If you want to quote your historical figure, make sure you have that quote ready. Try looking for some quotes on this website: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_history.html
You can use other websites as well.
ELA- Next 10 pages. Take notes in the margins.
WS- List 5 words that use the prefix inter.
Read- 30 minutes. Get notebook signed.
Other announcements:
Return your library books.
Math- What is the value of the expression? 192 x 14, 720 X 23, 431 X 50
Write these numbers in word form - 720.41, 720.041, 7,241 , 720,041
Round 5.235 to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and whole number
December 7th 2015
SS- Tomorrow you will get a chance to construct your historical figure reports. YOU WILL NEED YOUR NOTES. I PRINTED ONLY THOSE THAT WERE SENT TO ME, Please come prepared.
Look at this report that a former student wrote.
Look for the following;
Examples of historical information, examples that back up an important point he wanted to make, evidence of a strong voice, connecting information that shows how one event causes another. You'll find it on the HOMEPAGE.
W- Come up with a title for Oscar's piece.
SS- Start to think about the historical character you are researching. Who's your audience for this piece? Does it matter? Just think about these things as you read Oscar's piece again. Or read the Mary Todd Lincoln piece. Or maybe you like the VOICE of one of the nonfiction books you are presently reading.
Read- Nonfiction or Historical Fiction only (Individual reading checks tomorrow)
Math- Draw a rectangle that is 4x the size of a rectangle 8cm by 5cm. What is the area of each rectangle? Loose leaf
Research- Your facts have been printed out for you. Tomorrow you will start writing your report!! Be prepared!
December 4, 2015
December 4, 2015
You had no homework last night, but you do have homework tonight. Sorry, but it would be a shame to not react in some way to the special visit we had today.
Thank you to Henk Guitjens (Opa), and Adriana Guitjens (Oma) for sharing about their families' lives in the Netherlands during the Nazi Occupation. We truly learned why Freedom from Fear is so precious!
SS/W- Write a letter to Liberty's grandparents. As we discussed, you will start your letter with an introduction and a thank you to our guests. Your intro will include a description of the historical fiction piece that you will then write. You will write from the point of view of Henk's father, or Henk's mother. Use lots of internal thought. Think about some of the amazing comments that were made throughout the discussion by all of you! Try to weave these into your historical fiction piece. Please don't ask me how long it should be. Do your best and make it special.
Also, thank you to everyone who shared their special holiday traditions! Maybe some of you will even make it up to Rhinebeck NY for the Dutch Celebration called SINTERKLAAS. You'll see Liberty's family there ;)
Please print out your SS Historical Figures Facts for Monday
Practice your Holiday Songs and Moves! Practice for the rap if you are auditioning on Monday.
Math Unit test on Monday-
Here's the review for it:
*Use the place value chart to help you with the questions
1) Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE about the numbers A) 59.31 B) 2.132
The 1 in the A is 1/10 the value of the 1 in B.
Explain your answer.
2) 23.8 is 10 times the value of_______
3) What is the correct standard form for fifty- eight and thirty- nine thousandths?
4) Write 6.28 in expanded form
5) What is the standard form of the following numbers?
5 x 10 + 9 x 1 + 6 x (1/10) + 3 x (1/100) + 7 x (1/100)
6) Write 39.231 in word form
7) Which decimal comparison is true?
a. 5.29 = 0.529 b. 0.9 = 0.900
Explain your answer.
8)What is 4.59 roundest to the nearest tenth?
9)What is 0.032 roundest to the nearest hundredth?
10)What is 8.34 roundest to the nearest ones place?
11)Allan earned $709.309 in allowance this year. Round this number to the nearest ten dollars.
12)What is 8.93 + 2.34 ?
13)What is 94.2 - 19.02 ?
14) On Tuesday, Tanya biked 13.4 miles and David biked 17.25 miles. How many miles did they bike in all?
15)Shirley made 20.74 ounces of grilled chicken. She and her family at 14.39 ounces. How many did they have left?
16) Theo had 12.37 gallons of gas in his car. He went on a short toad trip and had 4.89 gallons left when he returned. How many gallons of gas did Theo use?
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December 2, 2015
MATH MORNING SCHOOL! Don't forget! ;)
If you have not yet sent me the interview with a veteran, please do so now via
google docs. The following people need to complete this and send it. It is
OVERDUE: Jada, Jason, Musashi, Diana, Jeremy, Caitlyn, Citlali, Zoe. Y
Study the following for the 2nd part of math test tomorrow. Study Math Mania sheets
Do these problems.
Math- 789.458
1) round this number to the nearest hundredth, tenth, thousandth, whole number, ten, and hundred
2)How could you compare the 8 in the thousandth place to the 8 in the tens place
3)Multiply this number by 10,100,and 1,000
4) Multiply this number by 10 to the first power, 10 to the second power, and 10 to the third power
5)Multiply this number by .1, .01, and .001
Math- 1.5, 4.5
1)Add these decimals and multiply your answer by 4
2)Multiply these decimals by each other using bunny ears :)
3)Multiply these decimals by using the partial product box (area model)
4) CHALLENGE make an array like we did in class today on graph paper, multiplying the decimals Multiplying Using the Area Model This video is multiplying fractions. YOU will be multiplying decimals, so you will be working with tenths and hundredths, specifically 3/10s and 6/10s. Count up the hundredths blocks that are formed when your vertical and horizontal lines cross.
Multiplying decimal example
Continue working on this- SS/Research/Writing-Organize your facts into subtopics. Start thinking about which sentences will be your linking ideas. Collect facts for research that's missing.
Looking Ahead- Dividing decimals using the area model!
Dividing decimals using the area model
Study the following for the 2nd part of math test tomorrow. Study Math Mania sheets
Do these problems.
Math- 789.458
1) round this number to the nearest hundredth, tenth, thousandth, whole number, ten, and hundred
2)How could you compare the 8 in the thousandth place to the 8 in the tens place
3)Multiply this number by 10,100,and 1,000
4) Multiply this number by 10 to the first power, 10 to the second power, and 10 to the third power
5)Multiply this number by .1, .01, and .001
Math- 1.5, 4.5
1)Add these decimals and multiply your answer by 4
2)Multiply these decimals by each other using bunny ears :)
3)Multiply these decimals by using the partial product box (area model)
4) CHALLENGE make an array like we did in class today on graph paper, multiplying the decimals Multiplying Using the Area Model This video is multiplying fractions. YOU will be multiplying decimals, so you will be working with tenths and hundredths, specifically 3/10s and 6/10s. Count up the hundredths blocks that are formed when your vertical and horizontal lines cross.
Multiplying decimal example
Continue working on this- SS/Research/Writing-Organize your facts into subtopics. Start thinking about which sentences will be your linking ideas. Collect facts for research that's missing.
Looking Ahead- Dividing decimals using the area model!
Dividing decimals using the area model
Community Building-
On Friday Liberty's grandfather and father will have Dutch (dairy and nut free) cookies to share with the class. They will talk about life in Holland during the occupation as well as the annual holiday Sinterklaas tradition on Dec 5th each year. Please prepare a few questions for them. Also, if you would like to share a holiday tradition with the class, please prepare a one page piece.
December 1, 2015
If you have not yet sent me the interview with a veteran, please do so now via google docs. The following people whose interviews I did not receive are: Sasha, Miah, Jada, Jason, Musashi, Diana, Jeremy, Caitlyn, Emmet, Citlali, Oliver, Zoe. R, Milo, Zoe. Y
Study the following for a math test tomorrow. Math Mania sheets
Do these problems.
Math- 423.572
1) round this number to the nearest hundredth, tenth, thousandth, whole number, ten, and hundred
2)How could you compare the 2 in the thousandth place to the 2 in the tens place
3)Multiply this number by 10,100,and 1,000
4) Multiply this number by 10 to the first power, 10 to the second power, and 10 to the third power
5)Multiply this number by .1, .01, and .001
Math- 2.3, 4.6
1)Add these decimals and multiply your answer by 4
2)Multiply these decimals by each other using bunny ears :)
3)Multiply these decimals by using the partial product box (area model)
4) CHALLENGE make an array like we did in class today on graph paper, multiplying the decimals Multiplying Using the Area Model This video is multiplying fractions. YOU will be multiplying decimals, so you will be working with tenths and hundredths, specifically 3/10s and 6/10s. Count up the hundredths blocks that are formed when your vertical and horizontal lines cross.
SS/Research/Writing-Organize your facts into subtopics. Start thinking about which sentences will be your linking ideas. Collect facts for research that's missing.
Looking Ahead- Dividing decimals using the area model!
November 25th 2015
Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for The Four Freedoms and for my wonderful class!
Share the story of the determination and the bravery of Grimke Sisters at your holiday dinner. My wondering; I wonder if any of your friends and family know who the Grimke Sisters are.
St. Jude- Check out the homepage for a persuasive essay that a former student wrote that might help you get a few more pledges for the St. Jude's Fundraiser. See what you think? Were you persuaded? Why? Why not? Do some of your own research if you like.
Middle school applications are due on December 1st. ;) Only seven more months at PS10!
$7 for Holiday T-Shirt- I'm missing from Miah, Jada, Pablo, Asher, Caitlyn, Lia M., Lia N., Emily, Toni, Zoe ( not sure which one)
Math- Mania Sheets: do the easy one first, have your parent check it, and then do the second one and have your parent check again. Optional- Work on the review pages in the blue binder.
Read- research your historic figure and collect facts in either your notebook or docs. Remember to collect the websites you’re using on a separate doc/sheet. Refer to the homepage if necessary.
Read and complete the two reading packets : "The Transcontinental Railroad" and "Sojourner Truth"
TRIP ON MONDAY- Bring lunch and your permission slip. Put your NAMES on the permission slips, because sometimes I cannot read your parents' signatures. I cannot allow you to go without a signed permission slip, so please let your parents know. All chaperones are welcome, but the cost is $15, unless you are a member.
MORE ABOUT THE TRIP!-
BE ON TIME?!
We will leave school at about 8:45, immediately after our Green Dreamer visits.
Green Dreamers- YES, it's time! Are you ready the inspire the future Green Dreamers of the world? so
Be ready to share your green dreamer letter with your adopted class. Send it to me also via docs so I can print it out for our Green Dreamer bulletin board that we are planning. You will have from 8:25-8:40. Please try and take a bathroom break before you come up at 8:20.
Green Dreamers-
If possible, take a pic of yourself with your memory object. You can show the class your picture and invite them to take "The Pledge".
Green Dreamers- -Asher volunteered to connect with Brad Landers to discuss a Plas-Tax survey. Good Luck Asher and Thanks!
Here's a LOL Cat from Mr. Mag's class to get you thinking about fun ways to spread the word about green issues.
Hey, which recycling bin do hairballs go in? LOL by MagCat
Revision of Four Freedoms Essay- if necessary (you know who you are). I want to send these off to Nellie and Steven next week, so please get them to me asap.
November 24th 2015
Math- Choose 3 challenging choice pages in your blue binder to complete.
SS- Be prepared for Fishbowl after reading "Awesome Fighting"
SS- Watch the SIMS video RECYCLING VIDEOS FROM SIMS!
W- Read Mary Todd Lincoln on the Home Page. Write what you like and dislike about each paragraph.
Research- Continue researching your historical figure.
Trip- MOMA trip on Monday $7 Parents $15
Read- Research
Remember to bring in your sharpened pencils.
*Important Notices:
FOOD DRIVE TOMORROW!
Donations needed include:
Bread, Cereal, Oatmeal— Canned and Fresh Ham— Dried and Canned Beans
Fresh and Canned Fruit— Fresh and Canned Vegetables— Frozen Turkey and Chicken
Homemade Baked Goods— Pancake Mix, Syrup— Parmalat Milk— Pasta and Pasta Sauce
Peanut Butter and Jelly— Potatoes, Onions, Onions, Sweet Potatoes
Rice and Other Grains— Store Bought Baked Goods— Stuffing Mix
SAVE THE DATE
PS 10 TEACHERS AND STUDENTS FROM GRADES 4&5
PS 10 HOLIDAY SHOW
#PS10ISAWARE
A Musical Extravaganza Directed by Ms. Diana Yourke
Wednesday, December 16th at 10:00 AM Thursday, December 17th at 10:00 AM & 6:30PM
At K280 in the auditorium
Located at 50 19th STREET AT 10TH AVENUE
Tickets are $5.00 for adults $3.00 for children (for the evening performance only)
Tickets go on sale beginning Thursday December 3rd in the lobby
Arrival: 8:15AM-9:00AM and Dismissal: 2:30PM-3:00
SAVING LIVES
We are going to be raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Please make a list of friends and family members who you think might be willing to make a small donation.
November 20th, 2015
Give the revised middle school application pages to your parents.
Return the money and the yellow slips for the holiday t-shirts on Monday.
Bring in your SIMS permission slip. NO one will be allowed to go without a permission slip. I will not call your parents. Bring lunch. Tuesday. We are having lunch with Mr. Mag's class at SIMS!
Party on Monday. Parents- Please email Emily's mom the dish you want to bring.
SS/W- Start collecting lots of facts about the Civil War individual that you will be studying. Explore different websites. Keep track of the websites you are using on a separate Google Docs page. Write in complete phrases or sentences. Use your notebook or your docs.
Dig. Dig. Dig. If you can't find any good websites, send me a text. Great FISHBOWL today!
GreenDreamers- Prepare the introduction speech that you'll be sharing with your adopted class. Here's the letter that will have gone out to all the teachers.
Hi everybody,
The fifth grade is taking part in various social action activities. This year I joined up with Jane and her Green Dreamers. Our combined classes meet once a week where we read articles, watch videos and have discussions related to topics like sustainability and green living. We also would love to have our students carry out some small action every week. This is where we hope you will come in.
We have partnered up our students and have assigned each pair or trio a class in the school. It is our hope that they could come in once a week to talk to your class for no more than 5 minutes about some particular action or idea. We will work with the students so that it is appropriate across the grades. The key is we do not want to be a bother to you, the teachers. We will accept whatever time or day that works best for you. Maybe after lunch for five minutes or in the morning, or any other time. Our partners are very flexible.
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them our way. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
The fifth grade is taking part in various social action activities. This year I joined up with Jane and her Green Dreamers. Our combined classes meet once a week where we read articles, watch videos and have discussions related to topics like sustainability and green living. We also would love to have our students carry out some small action every week. This is where we hope you will come in.
We have partnered up our students and have assigned each pair or trio a class in the school. It is our hope that they could come in once a week to talk to your class for no more than 5 minutes about some particular action or idea. We will work with the students so that it is appropriate across the grades. The key is we do not want to be a bother to you, the teachers. We will accept whatever time or day that works best for you. Maybe after lunch for five minutes or in the morning, or any other time. Our partners are very flexible.
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them our way. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
Read- for research
Holiday Homework- Is "holiday homework" an oxymoron? Hmmm. Pick out your favorite oxymoron here. You received 2 handouts that must be completed by November 30. Write on the document. Answer in complete sentences. We will FISHBOWL them on the 30. Complete them anytime you like before the 30th.
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-oxymorons.html#lLfmCShLlvTgSDrv.99
Jane and James (5th grade)
November 19th, 2015
No extra homework. Just review what's due from last night.
I hope all enjoyed the trip ;)
Thank you to Nikki and Theresa for helping us out!!
Middle School News Alert- There was a mistake on the middle school applications. The computer posted grades from the first marking period instead of the last. Tell your parents that it has been remedied and NOT TO WORRY. You will receive a revised application tomorrow. Mr. Feldberg will be sending out a text with more details.
November 18th, 2015
M- Research on the internet videos about multiplying decimals. Did you find a strategy that you think makes sense; a strategy that you would like to share with the class. Study the model we developed today. Want more practice? Use the graph paper I gave you to figure this problem out. 3.5 x 5.5. In other words, what is three and one half of five and one half? Estimate. Use a calculator to show your work.
Math- This NOT Extra Credit- Loose leaf-
A. 15.6+0.09 B. 14.6-0.303 C. 7X2.3 D. $10.00/11 E. $100/15 F.$1000/15
G. $10000/15
SS/ Reread "Whose Side Are You On". Write a two page diary entry, or letter, from the point of view of any character in the piece. Make references to your prior knowledge. Is your piece authentic? Share it with a parent.
SS- Notes on the new document will be due on Friday.
SS- Excellent work on war interviews! I am so very proud of your work around this.
See trip notes. COME PREPARED! Parents welcome.
Read ;)
November 17th, 2015
November 17th, 2015
Math- Play the game that we played today in math with a parent. Find a way to make it more challenging.
Math-Choose 3 or more "review" pages to complete. Some of you already did them! Nice!
Math- Extra Credit- Loose leaf- A. 14.6+0.9 B. 14.6-0.03 C. 7.6X2.3 D. $10.00/12 E. $50/15 F.$50/14
SS- Read "Which Side Are You On" and write "noticings and wanderings". Be prepared for FISHBOWL!
SS- Excellent work on war interviews! I am so very proud of your work around this.
Read- Building your reading fluency.
Trip on Thursday- Rain or shine - Dress appropriately. Remember to bring your lunch, $3.00, your permission slip, and a METRO CARD with at least one swipe for the train. We can only ride the train if everyone comes prepared. Also, IF WE HAVE TIME, we MAY visit a little store that has nice treats. You may bring some extra money. This is optional.
November 16th, 2015
SS- Trip to Four Freedoms on Thursday- I need a chaperone- Free to parents- More info tomorrow about trip. Do I have your FF essay? Jada? Pablo? Jason? Diana? Lia N.
M- Loose leaf- A. 1.46+.09 B. 1.46-.03 C. 4.6X2.3 D. $9.00/12
Fishbowl/W Write a one page reaction to your experience today in your SS notebook
Fishbowl- prepare notes for your fishbowl talk tomorrow. If you were out today, tomorrow you will be in. You may need notes to "talk off of", so prepare them.
Read- Build your reading fluency!
Reread- the next two pages in "John Brown" to prepare for Fishbowl.
Extra Credit- $21/15 $21/14 $21/13 loose leaf
We will share our War Interviews tomorrow!
November 12th, 2015
Friday is Pajama Day in honor of Ms. Macrina.
Excellent behavior on the trip! You made PS 10 proud!
SS- Tomorrow in class you will be presenting your Veteran's Day interviews. Thank you for all the hard work both you and your parents did to make this happen. Tomorrow you will also get a chance to write a point of view entry using your interview notes. To get prepared, I have posted on the home page a site with authentic Civil War Journal entries. For your reading homework please read them over.
M- $1.00/13 $2.00/13 $3.00/13.....etc....up to $10.00/13 (Loose leaf please)
Book Fair visit tomorrow. Come prepared.
November 10th, 2015
Remember there is a trip on Thursday !!!!!! We will leave by 8:30. Bring Your Lunch! We did not order any bagged lunch. Bring your lunch in your backpack. Bring your water bottle. No gum. No eating in the theater, of course.
SS/GD- Please do not send me your Green Dreamer notes yet. Just keep adding to your document. If you notice something on your day off related to the environment, them make a journal entry.
SS- Use these questions for your Veteran's Day interview. Remember, this could be a sensitive subject for some people. Enjoy learning from primary sources!
Math- Complete the fraction to decimal sheet. Call your partner if you need help. Use the patterns to help you. Check your work on a calculator, if you're not sure.
Read- Enjoy!
Questions for the Veteran Project :
1.) Did the war benefit you in any way? Please explain?
2.) Are you still affected by the war? Were you affected for better or for worse?
3.) Are you still in contact with your war companions? How has your relationship changed over the years? What were the circumstances surrounding your encounter?
4.) Were you a POW (prisoner of war)? How were you affected by it? Do you know anyone who has gone MIA (missing in action)?
5.) What branch of the military were you a part of? What was your highest ranking in the military? Where were you stationed?
6.) Were you drafted or did you volunteer to join the army?
7.) Do you know anyone who has been affected mentally or physically during the war?
8.) How long did you serve? How long were you in combat? How long were you affected by the war?
9.) How did your family react to your return home? Was the life at home any different from the one you left?
10.) Are you able to find forgiveness for the "enemy"?
11.) How did your worldview change after the war?
12.) Were you ever scarred of the aftermath of the war affecting you?
13.) When and where did you fight in a war?
14.) Can you recall a moment where you felt like you were about to die? Were their a moment where you felt you'd rather die then continue fighting?
15.) How did you feel when you were drafted to go to a war?
16.) Did you acquire any new habits during the war that you still follow today?
18.) How were you transported to the battlefield?
19.) What did you do to survive during war? What did you eat? How did you wash yourself? Where did you find water to drink?
Reread- "John Brown"- Add to your "noticings and wonderings".
November 9th, 2015
SS-Start a google doc page with your Green Dreamer notes. Add a journal entry about today.
SS- Read and take notes on "John Brown". Are you notes organized?
Math- On the N/D Division sheet fill in the next row and the next column.
Read- Enjoy! Check your fluency with a parent.
??? Did you send in your 88 reactions?
Please review your questions for the veteran. Be ready to discuss tomorrow.
November 6th, 2015
Learn this song! Love Song to the Earth (be ready to sing on Monday with Mr. Mag's class). Working on moves? Be ready to present them ;)
Word Study: Today we free wrote about our experience at M.S 88. The following list contains words that were commonly misspelled in our writing pieces. Please review and study these words, as there will be an upcoming mini spelling test.
I find social studies to be a very interesting topic. Interesting
Due to a stomach virus, I won’t be attending tomorrow's wedding ceremony. Won't
Their school is
nice. Their
Which school will
you choose? Which
Conducting research is much easier when technology is involved. Technology
There were many activities
that looked like fun.
Activities
Some people might like one middle school better than the other. Than
I saw several posters related to the environment.
Environment
I especially liked
seeing my former students.
Especially
Do not celebrate
until you’ve earned it.
Celebrate
Each middle school is different. Different
If you study, you will probably
get 100% on the next spelling test.
Probably
Obviously, it is
difficult to read text that contains misspelled words. Obviously
It is really a
problem when you misspell simple words. Really
A pianist is someone who plays the piano well.
Piano
There are a lot of interesting books to read at the
library. Library
The principal at
M.S 88 was very informative.
Principal
On rainy days, you can watch movies at the school’s auditorium. Auditorium
There were intricate designs
on the wallpaper. Designs
You’re going to be late for lunch release. Release
I enjoy interactive
projects. Interactive
I get my recipes from the cookbook. Recipes
Paintbrushes, markers, and paint are materials you need for art class. Materials
Choose your answer wisely. Choose
I want to learn more about dinosaurs. Learn
His mother made an appeal for the return of the ring.
Against all expectations, we became good friend. Expectation(s)
You can type your essay on the computer. Computer
Where did you grow up? Where
Look at the word
Math- There are 3 separate, equal-size boxes and inside each box there are 2 separate small boxes, and inside each of the small boxes there are 4 even smaller boxes. How many boxes are there altogether? Draw a picture!
Reading- Check this out!
Q level- you should be reading 105-140 words per minute (wpm)
R level- 105-145 wpm
S level- 110-145 wpm
T level- 115-150 wpm
U level- 115-150 wpm
V level- 125- 160 wpm
Social Studies:
Junior Reporters
Assignment: Develop (10-20) questions for our Veteran's Day Project.
Start thinking about the person who you would like to interview. It can be a veteran/somebody who served in the military, someone who knows a veteran, someone who was affected by a war, someone who knows someone affected by a war, someone who knew someone affected by a war, etc....
Important Notices: Please complete and return The P.S 10 Cell Phone Policy Student Contract and please return the report card in the original envelope that was given to you, and I will send home a copy. Thanks in advance!
November 5th, 2015
Math- Complete pages 16, 17, 19
SS- Continue "noticing" chart for the new packet.
Read- Continue cause and effect work
Extra Credit- research some of the people, places, or events you read about in the handout. (Loose leaf)
Reminder- Four Freedom's Essays are overdue. Please send in.
November 4th, 2015
Math- Division work on board and the challenge question
Math- Pages 13 and 14
SS- Continue digging in the handout for "noticings and wonderings". Can you find the cause or the effect of the events.
Read- Continue your cause and effect work
Extra Credit- research some of the people, places, or events you read about in the handout. (Loose leaf)
November 2, 2015
Math-
Dividing decimals? Think money. Use the patterns
from today’s models to figure out the answers to these problems. 3.00/2 3.00/3 3.00/4 3.00/5
3.00/6 3.00/7 3.00/8 3.00/9 3.00/10 Work in your notebook.
SS-
Write a short journal entry about our 2nd meeting with Mr. Mag’s
class.
SS-
Read the text of “The War Begins”. This text might be difficult for you. If it
is, read it with a parent. It’s always helpful to have a dictionary handy when
you are researching. Collect facts that interest you. Then chart the cause of
the fact, OR the effect of the fact. Use the fact that we shared today from the
text to guide you. This document
is 6 pages long. Do 3 pages each night.
Good luck.
Read-
Chart cause and effect every time you read. Remember to log your reading.
Writing-
Four Freedom’s Essays are due via Google Docs by Wednesday AM.
Writing-
Write a letter to your gourd in response to the letter your gourd wrote you.
ELECTION
DAY tomorrow. NO school.
The BOOK FAIR is on!
October 29th 2015
SS- Our study of the “Four Freedoms” is almost complete!
Your presentations today were excellent. You used your notes, important facts
from our discussions, from articles and from videos that were presented. Some
of you are really starting to make connections! You started your writing piece
today and will continue working on it tonight and tomorrow. Remember to focus
on the research rubric I provided you with.
Your piece is due on Tuesday, preferable typed. Please send
it via Google Docs. Good Writing!
Math- Keeping skills sharp. 678/12 985/23 548/60 129/6
Math- If you had a dollar and had to share it with 3
friends, how much would each friend get?
Math- If you had a dollar and had to share it with 6
friends, how much would each friend get?
Math- If you had a dollar and had to share it with 9
friends, how much would each friend get?
Use pennies if you need to!
Read- Read and collect a few examples of cause and effect.
Keep your notes organized!
Spelling Bee tomorrow!
October 28th, 2015
Math-
Page 8 and 9
Reading-
Collect examples of cause and effect as you read
SS-L-
Ten questions for the librarian (LL)
Writing-
Explore the Civil War site on the home page. Explore other sites. Find one you
think would be good to add to this page.
Spelling-
positive adjectives spelling bee
October 27th, 2015
Reading- Read this article. Think of the read aloud that you listened to today as you read this article.
Read in your choice book.
Writing- Extra Credit- research Michel- Ralph Trouillot- Silencing the Past is the name of his book- research his quotes
Math- repeat yesterday's lesson using the first hundred words of this article. Nouns are Blue. Adjectives are Pink. Verbs are yellow. Adverbs are orange. Articles are black. Number words are Green. Prepositions are purple.
SS- Think about the "Trickle Down System", like ripples in the water, when you think about cause and effect.
Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily GrimkĂ© were the only white people of either gender who were born in the upper-class South, but rejected that luxurious lifestyle to fight against slavery. They also were among the very first to see the close connection between abolitionism and women’s rights.
Sarah was born on November 26, 1792, and Angelina was born on February 20, 1805. The sisters grew up in a wealthy slave-holding South Carolina family. They had all the privileges of Charleston society – the heart of ante-bellum Dixie -- but grew to strongly disapprove of slavery. Their large family so strongly disagreed with them that the Sarah, the older, did not tell anyone when she secretly taught slave children to read, something that violated state law.
In 1821, Sarah moved to Philadelphia and became a Quaker, and Angelina followed the same path a few years later, moving to Philadelphia in 1829. Angelina joined the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and wrote letters to newspapers protesting slavery from a woman’s point of view. This attracted the attention of abolitionists, who enlisted the Grimkes in the cause because they knew the cruelties of slavery firsthand.
The sisters were attacked most strongly when they began to make public speeches to audiences consisting of both genders, a practice that was considered shocking. In 1836, after Sarah was reprimanded for speaking at a Quaker meeting about abolition, the sisters moved to New York to work for its Anti-Slavery Society.
New York was even less fertile ground for abolitionists than Quaker-based Philadelphia, however, and the sisters continued to be criticized for their “unnatural” behavior in public speaking. They also began to write. Angelina’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) was truly a courageous work. She not only discussed how slavery hurt blacks, but also how it damaged white women and the institution of the family. Southern society condoned male sexuality outside of marriage, with the result that “the faces of many black children bore silent testimony to their white fathers.” Postmasters seized and destroyed many of the copies, and hostility towards the Grimke sisters was so great that they never again would be able to visit their South Carolina home.
Despite this uproar, they continued. Sarah addressed another audience withEpistle to the Clergymen of the South (1836), and Angelina followed withAppeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (1837). They toured Massachusetts in the summer of 1837, attracting hundreds of listeners every day; in the town of Lowell, 1,500 people – both men and women – came to hear them speak against slavery. Again, though, many people denounced them for having the audacity to speak to “promiscuous meetings of men and women together.” Clergymen in Massachusetts formally condemned their behavior, pointing out that St. Paul said women should be silent.
Undeterred, Angelina Grimke set another precedent in February of 1838, when she became the first woman to speak before a legislative committee; she presented an antislavery petition to Massachusetts lawmakers. In the same year, Sarah published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838). That work predated other feminist theorists by decades.
In May of 1838, Angelina married fellow abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld of Boston, and Sarah moved in with the couple. The next year, Sarah Grimke and Theodore Weld published a remarkable collection of newspaper stories that came directly from Southern papers. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (1839) used the actual words of white Southerners in describing escaped slaves, slave auctions, and other incidents that demonstrated how routinely gross inhumanity was accepted as a natural part of the plantation economy. Again, the effect was shocking.
Like the Grimkes, Weld was a member of a prominent family, but wealthy conservatives in both the North and South rejected such idealistic rebels, and the three suffered financially in the next decades. Angelina was 33 at marriage, and her health also deteriorated with the birth of three children, Charles Stuart, Theodore, and Sarah. The three farmed and operated schools in the 1840s and 1850s, moving several times within New Jersey and Massachusetts. During this period, the sisters also experimented with the practical pantsuit-style clothing promoted by Amelia Bloomer, but – like other women’s rights leaders – they gave it up when their appearance distracted from their ideas.
They finally retired to the Hyde Park section of Boston in 1864. By then, the Civil War was in its last full year, and the sisters’ activism would switch to women’s rights. When the U.S. Constitution was amended to give civil rights to former slaves after the war, the Grimke sisters were among those who tested the gender-neutral language of the Fifteenth Amendment that granted the vote. They attempted to cast ballots in the 1870 election, but male Hyde Park officials rejected them and other women.
They also continued their efforts on behalf of racial equality. In 1868, Angelina and Sarah discovered that they had two nephews, Archibald Henry and Francis James, who were the sons of their brother Henry and a slave woman. In accordance with their beliefs, the sisters welcomed the boys into their family. One of them would marry Charlotte Forten, an outstanding Philadelphia black woman, and the sisters’ feminist legacy would continue through Charlotte Forten Grimke.
Sarah was nearly 80 when she attempted to vote for the first time, and she died three years later, two days prior to Christmas of 1873. Angelina Grimke Weld suffered a debilitating stroke and died on October 26, 1879. Weld lived on until 1895, but he never was as radical as the women.
In the process of fighting against slavery, the GrimkĂ© sisters discovered the prejudices that women face, and their cause joined abolitionism and the early women’s rights movement together. They showed more courage than any white person in the South of their times, sacrificing both luxury and their family relationships to work for African-American freedom.
Sarah was born on November 26, 1792, and Angelina was born on February 20, 1805. The sisters grew up in a wealthy slave-holding South Carolina family. They had all the privileges of Charleston society – the heart of ante-bellum Dixie -- but grew to strongly disapprove of slavery. Their large family so strongly disagreed with them that the Sarah, the older, did not tell anyone when she secretly taught slave children to read, something that violated state law.
In 1821, Sarah moved to Philadelphia and became a Quaker, and Angelina followed the same path a few years later, moving to Philadelphia in 1829. Angelina joined the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and wrote letters to newspapers protesting slavery from a woman’s point of view. This attracted the attention of abolitionists, who enlisted the Grimkes in the cause because they knew the cruelties of slavery firsthand.
The sisters were attacked most strongly when they began to make public speeches to audiences consisting of both genders, a practice that was considered shocking. In 1836, after Sarah was reprimanded for speaking at a Quaker meeting about abolition, the sisters moved to New York to work for its Anti-Slavery Society.
New York was even less fertile ground for abolitionists than Quaker-based Philadelphia, however, and the sisters continued to be criticized for their “unnatural” behavior in public speaking. They also began to write. Angelina’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) was truly a courageous work. She not only discussed how slavery hurt blacks, but also how it damaged white women and the institution of the family. Southern society condoned male sexuality outside of marriage, with the result that “the faces of many black children bore silent testimony to their white fathers.” Postmasters seized and destroyed many of the copies, and hostility towards the Grimke sisters was so great that they never again would be able to visit their South Carolina home.
Despite this uproar, they continued. Sarah addressed another audience withEpistle to the Clergymen of the South (1836), and Angelina followed withAppeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (1837). They toured Massachusetts in the summer of 1837, attracting hundreds of listeners every day; in the town of Lowell, 1,500 people – both men and women – came to hear them speak against slavery. Again, though, many people denounced them for having the audacity to speak to “promiscuous meetings of men and women together.” Clergymen in Massachusetts formally condemned their behavior, pointing out that St. Paul said women should be silent.
Undeterred, Angelina Grimke set another precedent in February of 1838, when she became the first woman to speak before a legislative committee; she presented an antislavery petition to Massachusetts lawmakers. In the same year, Sarah published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838). That work predated other feminist theorists by decades.
In May of 1838, Angelina married fellow abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld of Boston, and Sarah moved in with the couple. The next year, Sarah Grimke and Theodore Weld published a remarkable collection of newspaper stories that came directly from Southern papers. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (1839) used the actual words of white Southerners in describing escaped slaves, slave auctions, and other incidents that demonstrated how routinely gross inhumanity was accepted as a natural part of the plantation economy. Again, the effect was shocking.
Like the Grimkes, Weld was a member of a prominent family, but wealthy conservatives in both the North and South rejected such idealistic rebels, and the three suffered financially in the next decades. Angelina was 33 at marriage, and her health also deteriorated with the birth of three children, Charles Stuart, Theodore, and Sarah. The three farmed and operated schools in the 1840s and 1850s, moving several times within New Jersey and Massachusetts. During this period, the sisters also experimented with the practical pantsuit-style clothing promoted by Amelia Bloomer, but – like other women’s rights leaders – they gave it up when their appearance distracted from their ideas.
They finally retired to the Hyde Park section of Boston in 1864. By then, the Civil War was in its last full year, and the sisters’ activism would switch to women’s rights. When the U.S. Constitution was amended to give civil rights to former slaves after the war, the Grimke sisters were among those who tested the gender-neutral language of the Fifteenth Amendment that granted the vote. They attempted to cast ballots in the 1870 election, but male Hyde Park officials rejected them and other women.
They also continued their efforts on behalf of racial equality. In 1868, Angelina and Sarah discovered that they had two nephews, Archibald Henry and Francis James, who were the sons of their brother Henry and a slave woman. In accordance with their beliefs, the sisters welcomed the boys into their family. One of them would marry Charlotte Forten, an outstanding Philadelphia black woman, and the sisters’ feminist legacy would continue through Charlotte Forten Grimke.
Sarah was nearly 80 when she attempted to vote for the first time, and she died three years later, two days prior to Christmas of 1873. Angelina Grimke Weld suffered a debilitating stroke and died on October 26, 1879. Weld lived on until 1895, but he never was as radical as the women.
In the process of fighting against slavery, the GrimkĂ© sisters discovered the prejudices that women face, and their cause joined abolitionism and the early women’s rights movement together. They showed more courage than any white person in the South of their times, sacrificing both luxury and their family relationships to work for African-American freedom.
A century later, the Grimke story had been largely forgotten: biographical dictionaries, for example, published entries on Weld without mentioning that Sarah Grimke was his co-author. Feminist historian Gerda Lerner revived interest in the sisters’ vital contribution to American history with a 1967 book, and it set the standard for modern women’s history. 1
October 26, 2015
SS- Think about this statement from Many Rivers to Cross;
The dehumanization of an entire race did not happen overnight.
R/SS- Extra Credit- Who were the Grimke Sisters?
R-
1.The author may interrupt the action in a text/video to take you back in time. Write two examples from the video when Henry Louis Gates did this.
2. Try to recall 3 events that occurred in history from the video. What was the effect of each of these events? Make a Cause and Effect chart if that helps you organize your thoughts.
W- Point of view is important in literacy. With our gourds we will explore how writers use it as they write. Bring in a small box for your gourd.
Math- page 11 Repeat the lesson we started today with the article of your choice. Please bring in the article, or a copy of the article if you can. Use a dictionary if you are not sure how the word is being used in the sentence.
Parent Conferences are coming up. Give the flyers to your parents today.
October 23, 2015
Math- Complete your fraction squares if you did not finish them in class. They are beautiful!
Look! Someone else had our idea! Mathematic masterpieces Think of a good title for our bulletin board. Should we make a key, like they did?
Editing- Thanks Caitlyn! We loved your piece!
Read- Are you finished your book? Get an idea from your "Reading Life Memoir" or some else's!
Writing- If you want credit for your extra credit work on your report card, please hand it in by Monday!
EXTRA CREDIT- Look for beautiful percentage patterns. Take a pic to share on Monday;)
SS/Civil War/War Study- Ask your parents if they know anyone who was affected by a war in any way. Would you be able to interview them, or someone who knew them?
October 22, 2015
Math- Make a beautiful
fraction square with these percentages- 50% Blue, 20% Green, 16% Yellow,
8%Pink, 6%Red
Writing- What Made
Honoring Day Special for You? What were some of the emotions you felt and why
did you feel that way?
Dear Diana- Thanks! We
loved your piece!
SS- Researching the Four
Freedoms- Pick the topic you found most interesting in your book. Explain why.
Full page on looseleaf.
Read- Enjoy and pay
attention to commas. Find one sentence where the meaning of the sentence would
change without that comma.
October 21, 2015
Math- Tomorrow we start
Unit 2. Please take out all Unit 1 work and leave it at home. Bring back your binder.
Writing- What Made
Picture Day Special? How did you pose for your pictures? How did you feel about
wearing the caps and gowns? What were some of the emotions you felt and why did
you feel that way? Zoom in on the small moments!
Editing- Dear Diana-
Thank you for allowing us to use your beautiful writing piece for our editing
practice!
Read- Enjoy the zoom-ins
and the explosions of the moment as you read! Chart your reading.
Our honoring ceremony is
tomorrow, periods 6 and 7. We will honor all the birthdays from August 1st
until October 22nd. Come prepared with a one-page piece (on loose leaf) about
yourself if you are being honored. The time of your piece should be "How I
Want My Classmates to Remember Me". Whoever is being honored should pick 2
friends to "honor" them. These people must agree to write a one-page
piece about their friend. You will give these documents to your friend at the
ceremony after you read them aloud. You are all free to bring snacks, cupcakes,
juice, (no soda please) fruit snacks, etc. Please avoid plastic and items that
cannot be recycled. Each honoree can choose a song that we can play on
Spotify during snack time. Parents are always welcome. You earned this party!!!
SS- Researching from
Video- reread the notes you took on the two videos we saw yesterday. Reread your
Four Freedoms notes and pick one topic from your notes that you will research
in your group tomorrow.
EXTRA CREDIT- Research
one of the topics you highlighted in your FOUR FREEDOM notes. Write a full page
on loose leaf.
October 21st, 2015
Picture Day Is Tomorrow! Read the flyer for details! No prepaid envelopes.
Math- Tomorrow is the end of Unit 1 Test. Please review the pages in your notebook and your binder.
Writing- What makes New Voices special? Why or why not is New Voices a good fit for me? Write at least one page on looseleaf, completely revised and edited.
Dear Miah- Thanks for letting us use your beautiful memoir as an editing model ;)
Our honoring ceremony is on Thursday, periods 6 and 7. We will honor all the birthdays from August 1st until October 22nd. Come prepared with a one page piece (looseleaf) about yourself if you are being honored. The theme of your piece should be "How I Want My Classmates to Remember Me". Whomever is being honored should pick 2 friends to "honor" them. These people must agree to write a one page piece about their friend. You will give these documents to your friend at the ceremony after you read them aloud. You are all free to bring snacks, cupcakes, juice, (no soda please) fruit snacks, etc. Please avoid plastic and items that cannot be recycled. Each honoree can choose a song that we can play on Spotify during snackt ime. Parents are always welcome. You earned this party!!!
SS- Researching from Video- Reread the notes you took on the two videos we saw today. Sorry I cannot post them here. Grade yourself on notetaking. Give yourself some advice. Write it in your notebook if you think you won't remember.
Read- Keep it up! Collect a "Gimmie the Ball" moment. Write a few lines from that moment in your notebook.
Check out this awesome moment that Milo wrote:)
Freekick
by miloJEUSUS
Will,
my teammate
was streaking down the line with the ball at his feet
an opposing player sticks his leg out
he goes down
the ref blows
it’s within shooting distance
game tied 3-3
2 minutes left
I step behind the ball
I take my run up
Ball. Up.Over. And in.
Game over!
October 20th, 2015
Extra Credit- Thank you to all the students who sent extra credit memoirs. I know I mentioned this, but in case you missed it, here goes. You need to know that the memoir you send must follow the rubric we have been discussing over the past month. If I conferred with you, or taught a lesson on a particular aspect of memoir writing, I want to see evidence of these strategies. I also want to see good editing, and please title your pieces on BOTH the google doc and the document itself. I am getting unnamed documents that have never been revised or edited. The whole point of this extra credit work, is to see if you are now able to write a revised and edited memoir WITHOUT my help. THANK YOU!
October 19th, 2015
Lia M., Caitlyn, Diana, - Use the notes I gave you today do a final revision on your Memoir.
Math- Do page 58 in your notebook. Show all your work. Do not write on the Math page. Quiz tomorrow on PEMDAS.
Reading- Read and collect 3 lines of dialogue.
EXTRA CREDIT- Publish your piece about the quote you chose today. 1 Page loose leaf. My favorite is "Be yourself! You won't get another chance." There will more study on this over the next month.
Editing and Mechanics- In Class 5-403 we will be italicizing all book titles, newspapers, and magazines (but not the articles from the magazines).
Here's more info if you are interested,
grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/italics.htm
Titles
Generally,
we italicize the titles of things that can stand by themselves. Thus we
differentiate between the titles of novels and journals, say, and the titles of
poems, short stories, articles, and episodes (for television shows). The titles
of these shorter pieces would be surrounded with double quotation marks.
In
writing the titles of newspapers, do not italicize the word the, even
when it is part of the title (the New York Times), and do not italicize
the name of the city in which the newspaper is published unless that name is
part of the title: the Hartford Courant, but the London Times.
Other titles that we would
italicize include the following:
•
Journals and Magazines: Time, U.S. News and World Report, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review
•
Plays: Waiting for Godot, Long Day's Journey Into Night
•
Long Musical Pieces: Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite
(but "Waltz of the Flowers"), Schubert's Winterreise (but
"Ave Maria"). For musical pieces named by type, number and key — Mozart's
Divertimento in D major, Barber's Cello Sonata Op. 6 — we use neither italics
nor quotation marks.
•
Cinema: Slingblade, Shine, The Invisible Man
•
Television and Radio
Programs: Dateline, Seinfeld, Fresh
Air, Car Talk
•
Artworks: the Venus de Milo, Whistler's The Artist's Mother
•
Famous Speeches: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Washington's Second Inaugural
Address (when that is the actual title of the speech)
•
Long Poems (that are extensive enough to appear in a book by themselves):
Longfellow's Evangeline, Milton's Paradise Lost, Whitman's Leaves
of Grass
•
Pamphlets: New Developments in AIDS Research
We
do not italicize the titles of long sacred works: the Bible, the Koran. Nor do
we italicize the titles of books of the Bible: Genesis, Revelation, 1
Corinthians.
When
an exclamation mark or question mark is part of a title, make sure that that
mark is italicized along with the title,
•
My favorite book is Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?
•
I love Dr. Suess's Oh,
the Places You'll Go!
(Do not add an additional
period to end such sentences.) If the end mark is not part of the title,
but is added to indicate a question or exclamation, do not italicize that mark.
Did you enjoy Charles Frazier's Cold
Mountain?
SS/Current Events- Collect math information from the article and the video. Write it in your notebook. What makes this solution unique from other sustainable energy solutions? Poetry in Motion: Power Plant Will Use Ocean Tides to Power 155K Homes
October 15, 2015
Lunch release starts tomorrow. Go over the rules with your parents.
W-All typed memoirs are due tomorrow. No excuses please.
W- All EXTRA credit memoirs are due Monday- typed and edited
Read- Find at least one zoom in worth sharing. Copy it into your writer's notebook.
Math- Complete pages 56 and 57, if you did not already complete it.
SS- Complete your buddy letters!! (looseleaf, of course)
October 14, 2015
Lunch release- I'm missing permission slips from several children. You need both the contract AND the permission slip.
Gym- I'm missing 10 gym permission slips.
WW/SS- Write a journal entry in your notebook from the point of view of Eleanor Roosevelt. This link may help. Her Star Still Shines Minimum- 1 page
M- Complete page 51. You must show your work to get credit.
Read- Collect at least 5 sentences as you read that have interesting adverbs that end in ly. Copy the entire sentence in your notebook.
Reading- Have your parents sign your reading login tonight. Are you on target?
Congratulations to those children who are self monitoring their behavior! Hopefully we can plan our honoring ceremony soon.
October 13, 2015
Please wear PINK to promote awareness for Breast Cancer Week
W- Use the revision notes that I shared today to revise your piece. I will want to compare your drafts, so feel free to send me a new draft any time you work on it. It I conferred with you today revise your piece using the suggestions we agreed upon.
M- Learn these words that we mentioned today- dividend, divisor, quotient, product
M- Pages 45 and 46
R- READ- Our reading goal for the year should be somewhere between 25 and 40.
WS- Use five of the adverbs we played with today in sentences
EXTRA CREDIT- WS- Write an adverb story using at least 5 of the adverbs from the chart
October 8, 2015
Writing- The REVISION work you did today was excellent. You used the tools that you have. Now start typing your piece. Send your piece via Google Docs. Use your id # the way you learned in computer. Tomorrow we will work on some small group revisions. Gook luck tonight. Feel free to have your parents help you with the typing. Use your rubrics and your models! Do your best!
Writing- Do you remember your favorite line from Amber and Essy? Share it with your parents or a friend.
FUN- Practice singing our new song ;) Practice the moves we learned today. Try to create moves for the lines that don't have them.
Math- page 41
Reading- Reread your work over and over. Share it with friends and family.
October 7, 2015
Writing- Continue writing your FUTURE reading life. Again, borrow a bit of time from your reading to get this part of your Reading Life Memoir just the way you want it. Rereading is the secret of good writing, so do a lot of it. Focus in on the strategies we have been practicing in class.
FUN- Practice singing our new song ;) Share new ideas for the Green Dreamers tomorrow!
Dedication ceremony for FDR Four Freedoms
Watch this video and write down your favorite lines. Listen from 0-7:00 to hear the voice of FDR. Now listen to the speech given by former President Bill Clinton from 14:30 to 22:42. Copy down the last line in the speech.
Math- How do you say this number? 3,586,983
Math- 964x21, 239x46, 345x21, 909x90 Do on looseleaf. Use any method you choose. Check your work with a calculator.
SS- Here is the reading passage that Karen shared today- Joy Hakim Eleanor Roosevelt Please reread it. Here's the video if you want to watch it. Eleanor Roosevelt-Her Star Still Shines Thank you Karen!!!! We all learned so much.
EXTRA CREDIT- What's the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Looseleaf or typed
Writing- Extra Credit- Write a memoir on the topic of your choice. This will be due on Monday.
October 6, 2015
Memory work- Can you remember the quote of the day?
Green Dreamers- Listen to this song. Love Song to the Earth
Practice singing it. EXTRA CREDIT- make up moves for the song that the class can do. Get creative!
Math- Explain to a parent the steps we went through in class to figure out "The Grass Is Greener". It was easier than it looked. Right?
Math- Complete pages 38 and 39.
Writing- Continue writing your present reading life. Again, borrow a bit of time from your reading to get this part of your Reading Life Memoir just the way you want it. Rereading is the secret of good writing, so do a lot of it. Focus in on the strategies we have been practicing in class.Wasn't Oliver's piece special? And Vera's book! We are surrounded by inspiration!
SS- Tomorrow we have a special presentation by Karen about Eleanor Roosevelt! Be prepared with a question or two. You may want to Google her to better prepare yourself.
SS- Reread this article about Ken Thompson. Be ready to discuss further.
Thompson is a born overachiever. He’s tall and commanding, with a quick smile and hand on the shoulder. He has the prosecutor’s tendency to be cautious with his language, which can at times make him seem stiff. In law school, one professor chided him for wearing a sport jacket to class, and it’s hard to spot him without his suit jacket buttoned.
This fall, I caught up with Thompson on his Sunday-morning church circuit in East New York, where he often goes to introduce himself to constituents. While riding with his security detail, he said he still struggled to believe his own success.
“Look, I’m not going to toot my own horn,” he told me, “but for me to sit here and talk with you as Brooklyn DA based on where I come from — I’d take you right to the building I started out in, and you’d see those kids running around. That was me.”
Thompson was raised in the projects. His childhood home was an apartment in the Robert Wagner Houses, a collection of 22 buildings in East Harlem, and, much like the Pink Houses, it was plagued by gangs, drug dealers, and routine chaos. Thompson was raised by a single mother, Clara, who became one of the first female NYPD officers to walk a beat. “She would leave with her uniform on; she would come back with her uniform on,” Thompson recalled. “That made an impression on me.” As a child, Thompson developed a familial respect for the NYPD, and the job allowed Clara eventually to move her family out of Wagner.
Thompson was a bookish kid and a good student. He attended NYU Law School, followed by stints at the Treasury Department in Washington and in the Eastern District as a federal prosecutor. In 1999, he was tapped to give the opening statements in the case against a handful of NYPD officers who abused a Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
To practice, Thompson, who was still a junior attorney, spent hours rehearsing in front of the mirror in the men’s bathroom at work. He also received coaching from his pastor, the Reverend A. R. Bernard, whom Thompson considers one of his closest confidants. Watching Thompson learn how to speak to jurors, Bernard recognized his potential. “I began to see in him something more than just legal counsel,” he told me. “Somewhere along the line, he had a political future.”
Bernard’s church, Christian Cultural Center in Canarsie, is regarded as the largest in the city, claiming some 37,000 congregants. Thompson and his wife, Lu-Shawn, have been attending Bernard’s services for more than 15 years. Before Bernard started preaching out of a storefront in Greenpoint, he worked as a banker, and his sermons are often infused with practical tips on how to improve life and generate wealth — part spirituality, part business plan. Congregants bring pads of paper to Sunday prayers and take notes as Bernard outlines points on a white board.
“You have to see it,” Thompson told me, directing his security detail to the church. “Denzel Washington comes here. Curtis Martin of the Jets, Jason Kidd, when they were playing.” Inside, one of Thompson’s detectives showed me the facility’s two sanctuaries (equipped with TV cameras to broadcast sermons), its cafĂ©, its massive fish tank, ATMs, and the gift shop. Outside Bernard’s office, in another corner of the building, Thompson peered into a private dining room. “I had lunch with Mayor Bloomberg right there,” he said. As we milled about, the DA discreetly pointed out Star Jones and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul waiting to see Bernard.
Thompson credits Bernard for his political life. “He strengthened me and has given me faith to do the work I’m doing, in protecting everyone,” he said. Soon after making the opening argument in the Louima case, Thompson wanted to run for office, but Bernard told him to wait. “I told him, ‘Look, you need to build up your practice, build yourself up financially, so when you do decide to run for office, you don’t have to owe anyone anything,’ ” Bernard said. “He listened, and when we both thought the time was right, he did it.
“Ken sees this as a calling. He sees this as a divine summons to have a platform to engage in what is very close to his heart.” Following Bernard’s plan, Thompson started work in the private sector, eventually opening his own firm with two partners, landing multimillion-dollar settlements with companies like Walmart, Six Flags, and Macy’s; Thompson’s firm sued the latter for unfairly targeting minorities for shoplifting.
Thompson’s most famous client was Nafissatou Diallo, the Sofitel housemaid who claimed she was sexually assaulted by IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a criminal charge the Manhattan DA’s office ultimately dropped. Thompson became a point of controversy after he allowed Diallo to appear on national television and later held a press conference in which he accused prosecutors of not taking his client seriously.
When Thompson ran for DA, the Times’s editorial board accused him of drawing too much attention to himself and his cases in the media. “We were not reassured by his publicity-oriented approach to representing Nafissatou Diallo,” the editorial board wrote in its tepid endorsement of him.
Fortunately for Thompson, Times readers aren’t the core of his base. Instead, his votes came from East New York, Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, and other neighborhoods populated predominantly by minorities. Thompson supporters represent a power shift in Brooklyn politics that has helped propel the careers of a generation of local black politicians, including the city’s public advocate Tish James, New York state senator John Sampson, Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries.
For decades, Brooklyn was dominated by what operatives once called the three I’s: Irish, Italian, and Israel. But as those white and working-class voters died, left the city, or became Bloomberg Republicans, their space within the Democratic machine has been filled with black voters from Central Brooklyn, and old political clubs have been replaced by power churches. “The church was key,” Thompson said.
October 5th 2015
Math- Page 33 and 44
- Extra Credit- Challenge your parent or a friend to a game of 3- In -A- Row! If you want credit for this, I need to see the work from the game.
Writing-
Continue writing your early reading life. Borrow a bit of time from your reading to get this part of your Reading Life Memoir just the way you want it. Rereading is the secret of good writing, so do a lot of it. Focus in on the strategies we have been practicing in class.
Use your handouts to inspire you or one of your favorite memoirs. There's one memoir in the packet to guide you. Add lots of DIALOGUE and INTERNAL THOUGHT, zoom in on SETTINGS. ENJOY going back to those precious days as you write this part of your piece.
- Writing- Extra Credit- Write a memoir on the topic of your choice. This will be due on Thursday. Final draft will be due on Friday.
Word Study- Find 5 LY adverbs that you seldom use in your everyday speech.
FYI
Our Future Reading
Lives Might Include- By Class 5-403 2016
1.Book clubs with friends after school
2.Making lists of books in different genres
3.Talking about books with my sister
4. Turning a story into a book
5.Reading about
informative medical books
6.Perspective switching books
7.Books or articles that influence politics
8.Historical epidemics
9.Inspiring younger siblings to read
10.Reading drama books with plays and monologues
11.Reading about artists and their work
12.Trying to increase my stamina
13.Reading about the history of particular sports of the
Olympics
14.Reading more books by my favorite Authors
15.More science + chemistry related books and animal related books
15.More science + chemistry related books and animal related books
16.Writing more in my journal
17.Reading the odyssey
18.Joining my mom’s book club
19.Volunteer at the Brooklyn Public Library
20.Starting a book review website like rotten tomatoes
21.Go to bed earlier so I can read more
22.Some of Ms. Cypher’s favorites like “Mr. Poppers
Penguins.”
23.Books that will remind me of my past
24.Book that make me curious
25.Learning languages with different books
26.Reading books online
27.Asking mom or dad for recommendations
28.Making a book club with my family
28.Making a book club with my family
29.Try to read “Goodnight Moon” and find out why I
love/loved it so much
31.Reading comics from different countries, like Japanese
comics
32.Reading at least 20 books over the year
33.Read the books before watching the movie
34. Visiting the library more often
35. Visiting a variety of libraries around the city
36. Reading multiple books at the same time
October 1, 2015
Let your parents know that we would love to see them tomorrow.
EXCELLENT work today except for the EXPLOSION of chatter at the end of the day. Save that chatter for the school yard.
Math- Make up 3 number sentences, one for each of these numbers- 78, 4, 65 Follow the same procedure we did today in the FIGURE ME OUT LESSON. Try to incorporate 4 different operations in each equation. Show all your work clearly in your notebook.
Writing- Use the notes you took last night while interviewing your parents, to write a piece (about your parent) similar to the one you wrote today about yourself. Use your writing packet to inspire you. Write it on loose leaf. Go back to the source (your parent) if you need to.
Art- Complete the drawing that you will paste on the Cherry Tree drawing. Use your glue stick to paste it on in the morning.
Reading- Enjoy your reading. Continue looking for sentences. Refer to the words besides said handout. Read a portion of your book aloud. Are you reading it the way the reader wants you to read it?
Party- The honoring party has been postponed until future notice. We need to be exiting the classroom by 2:40 sharp. That means you will need to focus on getting your things together starting at 2:30. Chatting should be kept to a minimum. The homework will be posted at this time for you to read, and copy if you need to.
September 30, 2015
Math- Page 27 and 28
Reading- Ask your parent about their reading life. Make an outline for them like the one you made for me.
Extra Credit- Repeat your reading homework with a second adult or older sibling
SS- Write a one page piece off of today's lesson/discussion about DA Ken Thompson. Thanks to all those who participated in the extra credit challenge.
Next Wednesday is our honoring ceremony. Prepare accordingly. Let me know if you will be donating snacks.
Extra Credit- Question of the Day? Can you remember the quote of the day? How does your memory hold onto so many thoughts?
September 29, 2015
Math- Page 21 and 23
Math- Discuss the Spelling/Math Bee with your parents. Evaluate the rules we set up in class. Can you revise the rules to make it more fun and/or challenging!
Reading- Enjoy your reading tonight. Pay special attention to the "words besides said". Write 5 sentences that help us to zoom in on the characters because of this precise vocabulary.
SS- Write a page about either of the videos we watched today in class. Discuss the theme, and especially, how it relates to one of the Four Freedoms
Extra Credit- Find facts about Brooklyn DA to share.
Websites- Sustainability Solutions
September 28, 2015
Math- page 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Math- Make up a number story for this equation- 5x[(11-3)-(13-9)]
Reading- Enjoy! Always log your work. How many books do you plan on reading over the next 10 months? How did you feel about your reading conference with Ms. Markin? Be ready to discuss. Continue to add to your book list. Sign up at the site we learned about today from Oliver.
Writing- Review (read) the two packets that I gave you last week. Jot down notes on the packet. We will discuss tomorrow.
Writing- Write a letter to your reading buddy introducing yourself- 2 pages on looseleaf. Make your buddy excited to get to know you. Use lots of details.
Spelling Bee- We'll try again for tomorrow. Circle the words that are difficult for you.
SS- Discuss the words you learned today in SS with a parent- ie. plaintiff, defendant, jury
September 22, 2015
Math-
Page 1.- Do problem #4. Experiment using the parenthesis in different places. Show your work in your math notebook.
Page 2- Complete the whole page. Use your notebook if you need more space.
Extra Credit Page 3.- Create another word problem similar to #4. Get creative. Illustrate it and add some color so we can post it . Write clearly, so others can learn from your work.
Reading- Enjoy your reading. Please log in. Make a list of at least 5 books you hope to read this year. Choose a variety of genres. Explore some websites that might give you ideas. Share those websites with the class on Friday.
Social Studies/Writing- What a fabulous conversation we had about drones today. I know that I learned quite a bit. Tonight you will write one page about this conversation. Focus in on what's important to you. Always include details that will engage the reader.
Spelling Bee on Friday- Use the words from your new spelling list.
Reading Buddies on Friday!
Middle School Info Mtg on Friday Sept. 25th at 8:30AM at PS10
October 8th at 5:45PM at PS 10
Thanks ms. Cyphers for posting the play on the "green dreamers" website today me and my cousin practiced every line.From his expression that he thought it was pretty good.
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