Holidays

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.  I have enjoyed the opportunity to teach each and everyone of you.  Thank you for always trying your hardest every day you are at school!

For those of you who were out of town you will have to take the test when you return.  My scanner is broken.

math Test This Thursday

Please study for your math test this Thurs.

The test guide is in my Sunday blog.  See me if you have any questions...good luck... Make sure to study... it is not an easy test!

Test Thursday

We will have a test this Thursday.  There will be 23 questions on the test.  The test will cover the following:

Know how to:

Measure and create angles with a protractor.

Know the difference between a regular polygon and a not regular polygon.

Know how to draw diagonals into any ploygon.

Know how to find the number of diagonals, regions, and degrees of any polygon.

For example can you figure out how many degrees would be in a 51-agon? Clue...how many diagonals? how many regions? What shape are the regions? What do you know about those shapes?

Know how to find the missing angle in a triangle.

Know all the terms on page 454 and 455 and how to label them correctly.

Know how to count the vertices, edges, and faces of any polyhedron.

For example,  How many edges in a  prism that has 49 sides on the bottom base?

Page 462  18-25...know how to do those problems.

Page 486 and 487 might also be a good reference.

Homework sheets that had to do with diagonals, sides, regions, and degrees.

Homework sheet that had to do with counting faces,edges, and vertices of pyramids and prisms.

homework and missing textbooks

Please do page 466 28-37 and 45-47.   Make sure to copy the problem down.  If it is a circle, please draw the circle on your paper.

I am missing math textbooks that are suppose to be for the classroom.  Check to see if you have two books.  Have a great day!

Homework

Todays homework is do  page 461 numbers 2-4;  page 462 #18,#20, #21;  Thinkers Corner page 463   1-3.  Look over the polygon exercise we did in class if you have some time.

Homework

Students worked on measuring angles with a protractor and creating angles with a protractor.  I did not assign any homework today. However, if students do have a protractor at home it would not hurt to practice for 10 or 15 minutes.

Homework

Please do page 456-457 numbers 29-36.  Also do 42-44.

Weekend Homework

The homework this weekend is to do page 446.  Please do numbers 5, 6, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35

Please do it tonight while the concepts are still fresh in your head!

homework

Make sure that you play two games with your parents by Friday.  Please bring your graph paper in and have it signed by your parents.  We will continue to work on our geometry unit.

Test Tomorrow/Homework for Friday

The graphing game: Please play two games with your parents.  I will try to post the game we played in class on my website if you need to look at how it was set up.  The game we played together in class is now up on my website for your reference.

Study for your integer test!  Solutions to yesterdays problem are......

-3 + +4=  +1    If I put three cold cubes into the cauldron and four hot cubes in (since it is addition)  three zero pairs will cross out and one hot cube is left.

+4 X  -5=  -20   If I put in four bunches of five cold cubes, the temperature will get colder by 20 degrees hence the temperature will be negative twenty.

Try these problems and refer to the story if needed.

-3  -  +2 =

+4 -  +1 =

-2 X   +3 =

Homework

Please study for your integer test this Wed.   Read the hot and cold cubes story on my blog.  

Can you write a story and make a cauldron for   -3 + +4 =

Can you write a hot and cold cube story for  +4 X  -5 =

If you are having trouble... go back and read the story.

If the chefs dumped 3 hot cubes into the cauldron and removed 2 cold cubes what is the temperature? Write the equation that matches this story.  Make a cauldron to show what is happening.

Hot and Cold Cubes Is On The Web Page!

I have posted both parts of the hot and cold cubes story.  The multiplication part even had some practice problems for your guys.  

Make sure to study!!!!  Have a great vacation!

Vacation and Test on WED. !!

I enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with each of you during parent conferences!  I hope that the new report card gave you a better insight into the strengths and weaknesses of your child. Thank you very much for your support and all you do for your children.

I am planning on having a small test on integers the Wed. we get back!  Please spend some time reading the story's titled hot and cold cubes.  I have two attachments on my website. 

The new concept we will be looking at is:  Geometry

Have a great Holiday!!! Thanks for your hard work each and every day you are at school!

homework

Please finish your math worksheet today.  Remember to write the story for the equation at the end of the worksheet.  Also, you have a quiz on the distributive property.

8 X  12=  8(10+2)=  (8 x 10) +( 8 x 2)=96

homework

Please do the following for homework tonight.

Read the hot and cold cubes story that is located on my web page.

Do the worksheet that is based on the hot and cold cube story.

Homework

Today, we started working with positive and negative numbers (integers).  Please do page 418 numbers 38 through 50.  Also, do the Link Up to Reading on the bottom of page 419.

Parent Conferences

I have another updated roster for those of you who  turned in your conference sheet today.  Please check to see what time your conference is.  If you still not had a chance to arrange a time, please contact me or read my Nov. 7 blog.  

Have a great weekend!

Homework

Today we worked with the distributive property working with partial product.  Please look over your notes and practice one problem to see if you can do everything we did today.  For example, try 15X12 .     Can you  draw the array and break it apart into its partial products? Can you write it algebraically?  Can you see the 4 times table in the original problem 15x 12?

Parents:  I have also updated the parent conference schedule.  If you  do not yet have a conference, please read my blog dated Tues. Nov. 11.  Thanks!

Conference Schedule

I have posted a master parent conference schedule on my website.  Please check to see what time your conference is.  If your child turned in the conference sheet today, look for an updated master schedule on Thursday or Friday.

Parent Conferences

Just a reminder:  Please download the fall conference schedule and fill in your top three choices for a conference time.  Conferences start  Nov. 14 and end on Nov. 20.  

Have a great day!

Homework

Please do page 93  #16 and 17.  Use graph paper for these.  Make arrays, show how you broke them apart, and write the equations to show the distributive property.  Then do 22-25 on the same page.

Parent Conference Sheet!

I have posted the parent conference sheet on my website.  Please download it and choose your top three times you would like to meet by placing a 1, 2, or 3 next to that time.  I will try to give everyone their first choice.  Please return this on Monday.  I will create a document with everyones times and put the document on my website by Wed. 

Have a great weekend!

Parent Conferences

Parent conferences are soon approaching.  This is a great time to talk about the progress your child has made this year.  They will be starting on Friday Nov. 14 and ending on Nov. 21.  I will be putting a parent conference attachment on my website Friday Nov. 7.  Please print it out and choose your first 3 choices and return with your student on Monday Nov. 10.  I will  try and give everyone their first choice.

Homework

Please spend 20-30 minutes working on the pattern of your alphabet letter.  Be ready to come in and share what you have discovered so far along with any questions you may have.

Students who were absent please download "building letters" as wells as "graph paper".  Please do it on the graph paper that you download.

Homework

Please finish your project that is due tomorrow.  I have posted a copy of the instructions on my webpage if you need to download it.

Also,  we worked on the growth pattern of the letter "U".  Please have your drawings, T-chart, and write down the patterns you see to figure out any age "U".

The more time you spend looking at patterns, the better you will get!

The weekend is almost over

I hope a lot of you have started on the draft of your project that is due on Mon.  

Congratulations to the 19 students who found my mathematical error on my Oct. 27 blog.  I wrote the decimal .12 and showed it in expanded form as .1 + .01.  The original decimal should have been .11 = .1+ .01   or the expanded form for .12 should have been  .1 + .02

Test Tomorrow/Project due Wed.

You have your test tomorrow.  Make sure to practice problems.  

Also, your pattern block algebra project is due on Wed.  (I have put this on my website if you need to get to quickly)

Make sure to get an early start on this.  If you wait to the last minute you will not get it done in time.  Start on it this weekend so things do not pile up!

homework

Tonight continue to study for your test on Friday!  Besides looking at the fudge factory homework, page 55 has some problems to practice that are helpful.  Try to sketch some of these problems with base 10 blocks and think about how you could solve  a problem with base 10 blocks.

Mr. Shobar made an error!!!!!

I made a mistake on my blog dated  October 27!  On one of my examples there is a mistake.  You can earn a bonus point if you find it.  Just write down what my mistake was and the correct answer on a piece of paper.  Hand that paper to me by Thurs. morning.  Do not tell anyone the mistake because that would be cheating.

Homework

Please spend 5 to 10 minutes working finishing up your classwork and preparing to share out tomorrow morning.   Also, please spend at least 20 minutes studying for your test.  You can refer to my study guide which is on Oct. 27th blog.  When studying page 46-47 are good pages, as well as, page 50 and 51.  Good Luck.  Remember, if you have questions write them down and come ask me!

Math Test next Friday: Place Value and Decimals

We have a test this Friday.  How to Study:  Go over all homework and practice some problems again.  The homework that was from your math book go over.  Also, go over all the other problems on those pages.  

Concepts Covered on Test:

Know how to record an order of fudge when someone comes into the fudge shop.

Example:  12 cubes, 11 longs.  Write the decimal.  (practice making trades)

Know how to rounds decimals.  (when the 10 cutter broke down)

Know where each place value is in a decimal.

Know how to put a decimal in expanded form.  Example:     .12         .1 +.01

Know how to add and subtract decimals.  Be able to show it with base 10 blocks.

Know how to order decimals  Example:   Which is bigger and why?   .8      .123             .98

Know how to find a decimal in between a decimal.  Find a decimal in between  .1 and .2

Know how to use the place value chart that you made in your math note book.  What happens to place value when you move right to left?  How many 100's and a million?

Good Luck!

Homework

Please do page 49 number 29 through 37.  Remember to think about the fudge factory model.

Homework

Please do  page  52 #36-41.  Choose two problems from these. You need to choose one subtraction and one addition problem.  For each problem create a story, an equation and a picture.

Homework

Please do page 52 numbers 38 and 40.  For each problem, draw a base 10 block picture, write an equation, and give an explanation.

Also, please do page 46 problems 2 through 5.  You do not need a picture for this, but may include one if it helps you.

Homework and Handouts

Please download the homework titled "rounding decimals #3.rtf"  from my website.  Read the directions and neatly complete it.

Also, school pictures, information on Bingo Night, and Pizza Sales information were handed out to students today.

Balboa Park Oct. 13-17

Students have 5 minutes of homework each night from the school at Balboa Park.  

FYI:  We need volunteers for pizza sales!  Please contact Mrs. Dally if you can help out on Thursdays after school.

Next week we continue to work on rounding decimals and adding and subtracting decimals.

Have a great weekend!

Weekend Homework - Balboa Park Next Week

We were working on rounding today in class through our Fudge Factory model.  I have asked students to spend 5 to 10 minutes this weekend going over our classwork and practicing.

Next week we will be at Balboa Park.  I would suggest dressing in layers depending on the temperature.

Homework Math books for the class!!!

Good News!  We have enough math books that every two students can share a book!  That means that students can keep their math book at home and not carry it to school if they so choose.

Box Top Contest Ends Next Fri. Oct. 17

Today students are to work on the back page of a worksheet titled "decimal between a decimal".  They should have a detailed explanation of their thinking.

I have also posted the worksheet on my blog for those of you who were not here!

Homework, Passed Back Tests and absent students

Students are to finish the classwork that we did today on ordering decimals.  They are to explain with sound reasoning why they ordered the decimals in the way that they did.  They are to use some of the strategies that we shared in class today in their explanation.

I also passed back a test on Tuesday.  I asked all students to show their parents and then return the test back to school.  I need this as a body of evidence for report cards.  Thanks.

If you were absent you can download the activity we did in class.  It is titled "Fudge Factory Ordering".  Think about how you would use the bas 10 blocks to help you decide the size of these numbers.

Homework

please download the document titled "Fudge Factory #2".  Also, there is a very short quiz based on the homework the last 2 nights.

Homework, pizza Sale Information, and Updated Class Roster

Homework tonight is to download the file titled "Fudge Factory #1" and complete it.  Be careful...Pay attention to the sizes of the pieces and what order I put them in when you draw your sketches!

Mrs. Dally has asked me to add an attachment regarding pizza sales.  It is titles "pizza sign up." Please take time to read it if you are interested in helping out.

Also, I have posted an update roster with corrections and additions.

Parents and Students have 5 minutes of homework. Also, read about class roster!

You and your child will play a game with a calculator. 

Here is how you play.  You put a decimal into the calculator that is no bigger than thousandths.  

For example,  point two one three (that is how you write it).  Now, one of you reads it... two hundred thirteen thousandths(that is how you read it). Keep going.

Another version:  Parents say out loud a decimal and students have to input it into the calculator correctly. 

Also, I have put the class roster onto my website for you to access!

If you were out of town today.  We had a quiz.  Please do not help them with this.  It is titled How much is a Billion part 2. You can download it off of my website.

Parent Night! No Math homework

No math homework tonight!  We will begin working on decimals tomorrow.    Book orders due back tomorrow!

Homework Tonight/ Parents Night Tomorrow! 6:00-7:00

The homework for tonight is page 6:   Do numbers 14,21,23,26, and 37.  Also students are to do page 9: Do numbers 21 and 23.

If you are out of town please also do the attachment on my web site title  "How Much is A Billion".  Think about the place value chart when trying to explain it.

Parents:  I look forward to meeting all of you tomorrow night!  Be on the look out for a handout that was sent home today that allows you to buy gift cards.  A percentage of the money spent on these goes back to the school.  

NO Homework Tonight

We took our test today and will not have any homework tonight.  We will be finishing up whole numbers and moving onto decimals.  

Study for Test

Sorry!  I got to this late tonight.  However, all students know that there is a test tomorrow and that they need to study for it.

Parents:  There is an attachment about 5th grade pizza sales.  This is one of 5th grades biggest fundraisers.  Please take a look.  It is titled "Pizza Sales".

Back To School Night Schedule Thursday Oct. 2

Welcome to Back To School Night!  Classroom visits will be from 6:00 to 6:20.  We will then walk to the multipurpose room and meet there from 6:20-7:00.

Hope to see everyone there!

Homework this weekend and Study Guide For Tues Test

Students have a worksheet to do for homework this weekend.  They also have a place value chart that they made in their notebook to help them with some of the questions.

Study Guide For The Test:

Things to know:

Mean, median, mode, range  (know how to calculate and find these in different types of graphs.

Cumulative Frequency table

Stem and leave plot

line plot

What kind of graph would be best for a given table

Histograms

Double Bar Graphs

Line graphs

Know what an interval and scale are.

Know how to graph an ordered pair.  (the game you had to play with your parent)

Advice:

Go over your homework.

Go back to chapter 7 and 8. Read the examples and then practice doing problems...do not just look it over!

No Homework Tonight

Students worked on building a two dimensional place value chart.  We are in the process of finishing and looking at some important patterns and relationships.  Therefore, there is no homework tonight. However, there will be homework this weekend.  Please check my blog on Fri.  

Reminder:  Test on Tues. Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.

People Who Are Out of Town on Contract:  If you are out of town please work on page 3 number 1-4.  Read page 4 and 5 and do all problems on page 5     1-13.    You will make the test up when you return 

Parents:  Just a reminder that P.E. is every Wed. from 1:45-3:15. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for physical exercise that day.

Math Test Next Tues.

The homework tonight is to make sure that lasts nights homework is done to the best of your ability.  All graphs should be in color and your paper should be neat and organized.

Their will be a math test next Tues.  Please read my entry for September 23 to get more details.

Parents

Gloria Tran asked me to post some attachments to my website regarding budgets and parking.  Please take a moment to look at these. I will keep them available for one week.

Homework and Parent Info

The homework tonight is for students to do page 132 numbers 10-12.  Students are to choose the best graph from each table and then create the graph.  They should have three neatly done graphs when the homework is complete.

IF you are a student who was absent or out of town, please download the classwork that is titled math graphing from my website.

Parents:  The fundraiser for Innisbrook starts tomorrow and ends October 8.   This are going home tomorrow (Wed. September 24).

Testing:  Their will be a math test next Tues. in math class.  The test will be on chapters 7 and 8.  Students should practice doing some of the homework problems again as well as looking through chapters 7 and 8.  

Homework

Today students learned how to read and create Histograms. Their homework is to do page 129 numbers 3 and 4. Students make Histograms for #3. Also, they are to do page 129 #5-9 which is titled Mixed Review and Test Prep.

Homework

Students did not meet for math today, but were at dance instead. Students are to continue to play one or two games with you tonight. The graphing game is to help them understand and practice graphing coordinates/ ordered pairs. I have taught them to start at the origin and go over....then up to find the point.

Homework

Students were taught a math graphing game.  They are to play one game against their parents tonight and tomorrow night.  They are to have their piece of graph paper signed and brought back on Friday.

Parents, thank you for bringing in supplies for the class!

Homework

Please download the homework off of my homepage.  It is titled "double-bar graph".  Please use graph paper to create your graph.  Students were able to take a piece of graph paper home today if they needed to do so.  I also showed the class how they could use the internet to download graph paper.  Go to yahoo and type in free graph paper!

Also,  a few students need to finish up with the art lesson which was on formal and informal balance.  

Parents....  picture day is this Friday.    Thank you for all you help and support.  The supplies you have brought in have been appreciated and we are using everyday!  

homework

Today make sure to go to my blog site and answer the survey question regarding how much time you spend doing chores or cleaning your room.

Also, please do page 118 #11-16 and Thinkers Corner page 119.

Parents, I also sent home a permission slip for you to sign that will allow your child to go onto the fields next to school.  Mrs. Bailey will use the field for physical education.  Please return this tomorrow.  Thanks.

Fun Weekend

Have a great weekend.  Play and have fun! 

You deserve it!

Homework and Forms

Today students were assigned page 107 numbers 5 through 9 and page 112 numbers 1 through 3, 7 through 9, and number 13.  Students also have their "All About Me" posters due tomorrow.

Parents be on the look out for papers that went home tonight for you to sign regarding the Balboa Park Program.  There is a transportation and medical form for you to sign and have students bring back tomorrow.  Thanks for your help with this.  Also, there is a AFP budget attachment on my home page for you to look at when you have a moment.

I am enjoying getting to know each and every one of the fifth grade students.  Parents, please stop by and introduce yourself to me if you have not done so already.  I would like to meet you.

Homework From the Web Page

The homework for tonight is an attachment that is on my website.  The title of it is "The Mean of three numbers is...".   Students were shown how to access their homework from the website.  

Also, students who did not finish their "Flip Books" in class today need to finish them at home and turn them in tomorrow morning.

Last, but not least Gloria Tran had some information regarding our parking lot.  You can download that document from my homepage as well.  The title is "parking lot".

Homework and Important Notice

The homework for tonight is page 103  numbers 5 through 7 and 20 through 24.  WE worked on the mean or average.  Students should know that average means you are "evening out"the numbers.

It was brought to my attention that to carry home books can be very heavy!  I want everyone to know that for Social Studies parents can check out a CD for the Reflections book so that students 

do not have to ever carry this book home.  The CD can be kept at home and returned at the end of the year.  The only big book that will go home will be the math book.  I hope that this is good solution!  

Parent Volunteers and Homework

Todays homework is to do page 100 numbers 25 and 26.  Also, students are to do link up to reading which is on page 101.  If students are having trouble making the table, please have them look at the example on page 98.

Also,  any parents who would like to volunteer for positions such as room parent, art parent , AFP Rep, etc. please come see me after school.

Friday September 5, 2008

For homework this weekend students who did not finish the "Dreamhouse" in class need to finish it for homework over the weekend.  I have had a great week meeting all the students and am excited for the great year ahead of us! 

Just a Reminder

Parents make sure to have students return handouts from the first week of school if you have not done so already.  Students were sent home with a packet for after school programs if they wished to participate in any.  No new homework today.

Wed. September 3, 2008

There are two assignments I handed out today.  One is for the parents and one is for the students.

The students are to create a page of information about them.  They can use pictures to talk about their hobbies, favorite foods, and so on.  This assignment is due Friday, September 12, 2008.

The parent assignment is to write a letter about your child.  Make sure to keep it one or two pages!  Students should bring this assignment home to you. It would be great to receive this from you in the next couple of weeks.

In the future I will attach a copy of these pages on my website so they can be downloaded on your home computer.

Dear Students,

Welcome to the first week of school! One of the assignments during this first week is to answer the survey question. Once all the information is gathered we will use it for an activity, so make sure to take the short survey!