Monday, December 14, 2015

Monday, December 14, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Monday night:

1.  Mango and Papaya...pages 85 and 86 ALL

Kiwi (do the first 2 problems we set up on page 85, plus all of 86, you know you can ALWAYS TRY the stretch your thinking if you wish).

*Remember, we're using ALL 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

*Practice Test tomorrow, and Unit 3 Test Wednesday!

2.  NO Words Their Way this week, see you in 2016

3.  Charlotte Doyle Projects are due January 16, but most of that work is being done IN CLASS!

That's all for now folks.

Only 4 more days till the Winter Auction!

MR. K

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Thursday night:

1.  If you did not turn in your Reading Celebration Parent update, signed by mom and dad, please do so Friday.

2.  Words Their Way:  Final Tests of 2015 tomorrow, we'll take next week off.

3.  Math:  pages 81 and 82 (no stretch your thinking) Due Friday

4.  Science:  Vocab cards due Friday (21 of them)

5.  Social Studies:  Unit 3 test Friday

That's it folks.  Busy night, but get'er done!!!

MR. K

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework from a Wednesday:

1.  Math:  H and R pages 79 and 80 for Mangoes and Papayas, but only 79 for Kiwis.

*Test is next week Wednesday.

2.  We did an HOUR OF CODING today.  Ask your kids about the writing code tutorials they went through.  They did a great job!

3.  Social Studies test Friday.  Unit 3

4.  Science:  please have all 21 vocab cards ready to go for Friday.

*Don't forget about the 2 hour delay tomorrow!!!!

Mr. K's world changer this week:  U.S. woman who led the charge to allow women to vote!

Take care all,

Mr. K

Monday, December 7, 2015

Monday, December 7, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Monday night:

Math:

1.  All groups...pages 77 and 78 for Tuesday!

*No worries tonight, just some more practice.  I like probems 1-3 that made you focus on finding the patterns that exist looking at our 3 key parts to a division problem (divisor, dividend, and the quotient).

*Give that Stretch your thinking at try.  Don't let the size of the problem bog you down.  It's not has hard as it seems.  Also, don't lose sleep over it.  It's just a problem.  Give it a try, have fun, and move on.

*Test NEXT WEDNESDAY!!!  You'll ACE it!

2.  Science:  All vocabulary cards are due Friday.  There will be a total of 21.

3.  Social Studies:  Unit 3 test Friday

4.  WEDNESDAY we'll be taking part in the One Hour of Coding Challenge.  Gonna be great.  We are going to learn how to write CODE from an online program.  I'm excited!!!

*2 hour delayed start Thursday!

BIG thanks to all who have donated items for the Klanderman Winter Auction!!!  You guys are AMAZING.  Thanks!

Take care.

MR. K

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Thursday night:

1.  Math:  all groups pages 73 and 74 in the H and R.

Here is the great filming of Quetzal to help:


2.  Social Studies:  Unit 3 test NEXT Friday

3.  Words Their Way Test TOMORROW!

4.  Current Events/World Changer/Reading Logs due Monday!

That's all for a Thursday.

****Throw a comment my way below.  Let's see if we can use that aspect of this a little more.

MR. K

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Wednesday night:

1.  Great Math Mini Quizzes today!!!  I'll send them home tomorrow.  We want to do a little re-teaching on them, but over all our division skills are GROWING!!!

NO NEW HOMEWORK

2.  Social Studies:  Unit 3 Test NEXT Friday (Dec. 11)

3.  Ask students how their persuasive letter is coming.  We're working on our final drafts and we'll print them Friday THIS WEEK!

That's all folks,

MR. K

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Tuesday night:

1.  Math:  HARD COVER BOOK page 103 (problems 6-17)
*Also...Mango and Papaya groups need to complete REMEMBERING page 72

*We're continuing to work on long division.  Our new twist today was...what happens when the first number of the dividend is TOO small to allow the divisor to take numbers out of it?

Example:  2134 divided by 9...There are zero amounts of 9 than can be taken out of the 2, but we simply include the second number...now we ask...how many 9s can be taken out of 21!

Here is a great video example:


*Don't forget that TOMORROW (Wed) is our 2nd COMPLIMENT party of the year.  We're playing GAMES.  Please bring in a game (board/cards) we can play.  We especially want to do an UNO tournament, so if you have a set of UNO cards to use we'd appreciate it.  Please label things.

*Thanks to those who have already donated items to the Winter Klanderman Auction on Friday, December 18.  Keep those items coming in!

Take care all,

Mr. K