Wednesday February 26, 2014

Today started with a Robby morning meeting about his Christmas day.  Social studies started next as we continued in My Brother Sam is Dead.  Leaving off in the first third of chapter 5, we found Tim missing his big brother Sam since he is away at war.  We also learned food is hard to come by, as people's cows are going missing.

Today's math lesson wraps up the major components of converting customary units.  Capacity was the topic of the day- measuring liquids.  Garger's Gallon was introduced to the students (Garger's Gallon is a creation of Mr. Garger senior, who is also a 5th grade teacher) and we applied the conversion properties as seen below in the videos.

(fun and educational!)

(Garger's Gallon man)

We began the afternoon by entering our multiple choice answers for the three bald eagle stories into our clickers for instant feedback.  We discussed each question in detail, and provided text evidence by number proofing.  The data provided will help me to plan lessons coming up in the future!

Finally, we began organizing a 5 paragraph essay based on the three readings about bald eagles.  Together we dug out text evidence and then popped our evidence into our organizer.  Tomorrow we will begin writing the five paragraph essay to a specific prompt.

Tonight’s Homework

Math
- capacity conversion word problems (use notes and calculators!)

Reading
- Read 30 minutes
- NewsELA on Fence Music in Mexico is due March 4th- (Blue and Purple- 980, Pink-830 , Green-690 )
- Wild Weather reading (annotate, number proof, slash the trash, provide text evidence!)
Vocabulary and Spelling
­- “scrib/script”; PWYK on Friday; sentences due Friday

Other
- Planner signed
- Study Island (optional due Friday Feb. 28th)
     PACCS Math: divide decimals AND compare decimals
     PACCS Reading: compare/contrast AND context clues