Feb 25, 2010

Day's highlights:
GEO Passport: State Study
Math facts practice sheet
Synonyms
Recess
Lunch
Coin presentation
Planner

Homework:
WA explorers info: name, birth & death dates, family history, education, married, any children, major contributions, any other work.

Feb 24, 2010

Day's highlights:
GEO Passport: State Study
Finished "Honest to Goodness Truth" book
Art Discovery: Chinese ink pandas
Recess
Lunch
Pack-up

Homework:
GEO Passport study: regular and States
Library: write government letter (only 1 kid per group)
Green math sheets

Feb 23, 2010

Day's highlights:
AM Q
AM Q check
Share snail observations (homework from last night)
Writing Prompt: final draft
Recess
Writing Prompt: final draft continued
Lunch
Class Meeting: Cafeteria food throwing report, Not passing tests in class after passing big test to get into Excel.
Math Assessment test
Recess
Keyboarding: Ultrakey, Mathisfun.com (Tanks)
Planner

Homework:
Book Orders
Anticipate Explorer unit of WA state: Locate one example of a famous person from WA state history 1800-present.  Use info to convince teacher to let you use that person instead of who you will draw tomorrow.
Green Math packet: due tomorrow
GEO Passport: US States & Capitals

Feb 22, 2010

Day's highlights:
AM Q
Writing prompt: "Important Person in my Life" (pre-write)
Recess
Writing prompt continued (writing)
Lunch
Writing prompt continued (editing, revising)
Science: Snails
Planner
Recess
Library: Government
NO Keyboarding

Homework:
Write detailed observations of snails and sketch from memory (due tomorrow)
GEO Passport study (for 3/17)
Book Orders

Feb 18, 2010

Day's highlights:
Student Council
Math: green papers
Dental presentation
Recess
Talked about Olympics
Lunch
Talked more about Olympics
Junior Scholastic pg15 Q's
Recess
Shared C&P comparisons
Keyboarding: Aesop's Fables

Homework:
Junior Scholastic: write paragraph about soda tax, read pg4, 8-12, all Q's on back page.
Finish 3 green papers
Newmark $ (if not done already)

Feb 17, 2010

Day's highlights:
AM Q
Jump Rope for Heart assembly
Recess
Math: Fractions
Lunch
GEO Passport testing
Finished art: Firecrackers
Recess
Music
PE: World Champ Jump Roper

Homework:
Dental hygiene paper
Write what learned about Coastal and Plateau Native Americans

Feb 16, 2010

Day's highlights:
Shared about long weekend activities
Wrote in planner
Recess
Practice Chinese New Year
Lunch
Chinese New Year program
Art Discovery
Keyboarding (for those who didn't leave with parent)

Homework:
Study GEO Passport levels 1-5 -- Test tomorrow!

Field Trip slip and $6.75

Feb 11, 2010

In a previous post, I mentioned the filming of the Parent U webinar at my house.  The Columbian wrote an article about the program and interviewed me for it.  It was in today's paper in the C Section and online at: http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/feb/11/webinars-educate-parents-esd-program-aimed-at/.  I feel this program could help many parents as it grows to cover many more subjects.

Day's highlights:
AM Q
Paper about modern Olympics
Recess
Another paper about Olympics medals
Lunch
Play about 1920s poet Langdon Hughes
Recess
Get ready for end of day
Keyboarding

Homework:
None.

Feb 10, 2010

Didn't do one of these yesterday.  I had a film crew at my house all evening recording material for the new ParentU webinar program that our kids' teacher included as an email attachment.  Good times!  You can find out more about the program here and here.

Day's highlights:
AM Q
Valentine guessing game
Class Meeting: running--new punishment
Recess
Class Meeting continued
Watched YouTube Chinese song
Lunch
Valentine's Party
Recess
Music: Old Tom White
PE: Learned about heart and blood cells flow

Homework:
None.  Nada.  Zip.  Zilch.  Zero.

Feb 8, 2010

Sorry about the skip on Friday 2/5.  Busy night and football weekend.

Day's highlights:
AM Q
Discussed what's coming up today
Recess
Finish crayfish question from Friday and feed them
Lunch
Made Valentine boxes
Recess
Media: researched facts about WA State government groups (Supreme Court, Governor, etc)
Keyboarding

Homework:
Memorize song written in planner.

Feb 4, 2010

Sorry for the late post today. I was a special illustrator guest at a presentation at the Evergreen district offices about using Graphica as a literary tool in the classroom based on the ideas discussed in the book Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6.



Day's highlights:
Author's Chair
Recess
Fed crayfish
Paper about crayfish observations
Math: Fractions
Lunch
General discussion about homework practices, Brothers & Sisters
Math: Fractions
Star Student vote
Author's Chair pt 2
Star Student winner
Checked math paper
Recess
Goals
Planner
Keyboarding

Homework:
GEO Passport study (Levels 1-5)
Bring shoebox (if not brought yet)
Continue doing Jump Rope for Heart

Feb 3, 2010

Day's highlights:
1/2 Day
Flip-Flop day
Music
PE
Watched Chinook Native American video
Announce Crayfish still alive
Recess
Lunch

Homework:
GEO Passport study (Levels 1-5)
Study two of 7, 8, 9, 11, or 12 multi facts
Write fiction story "What Really Happened at Dr. Teacher's Office?"
Find shoebox for Valentines Day

Feb 2, 2010

Day's highlights:
Clean desks
Clean crayfish tanks
Recess
Science: crayfish page
Making Coastal or Plateau houses
Lunch
Science: finish crayfish page
Math: multiplication fact assesment
Recess
Keyboarding
Class Meeting: math vocab

Homework:
Science: answer question from class
Math: division page
Junior Scholastic: Q's page 23 #1, 5, 10
Finish typing from Monday

Feb 1, 2010

Day's highlights:
Started blue math sheet.
Received Native American info packets
Recess
Groups to write paragraph of Native American facts (see homework)
Lunch
Notified about death of crayfish, Crayzilla.
Observations/experiments on remaining crayfish.
Recess
Library: Study branches of government and creating bibliography
Keyboarding

Homework:
Type one paragraph based on two Coastal and Plateau Native Americans facts and draw examples of them.
Finish blue math sheet.
Read "All Write" pages 60-63.