4/30/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Weds
• Practice multiplication
• Think about Storytelling From Home
• Storytelling Sign-up

Hairstylist and Kickball

On Monday Maggie Mena came in to talk about her career as a stylist.

And Tuesday for PE we started Kickball

Storytelling From Home

Storytelling with Stuff

Our unit for the next few weeks is Storytelling.

One of the first stories we read was about a woman who connected stories from her life to various hats she kept in her house. From there we discussed how objects can remind us of stories in our own life. I used a small statue I keep in the classroom as an example, how I bought it during a motorcycle ride and how when I look at it I think of that trip.

Some of our students shared that they too have things at home they connect stories with. So for the next few weeks students will be signing up to bring in an object they have a story connected to. A story they will write down and share.

This is NOT just Show and Tell. The object of this assignment is not, “This is my trophy from my football game.” Students need to have a specific story attached with the object. The story should be a few paragraphs long.

For example, with my statue my story would go, “When I look at this statute I think about a long motorcycle trip I took with my dad and his wife. I bought this in New Mexico on the side of the road. It was in the town we stopped for the night at. I bought it because my students were doing lessons about storytelling (true story) and I thought it would be a cool thing to bring back and show them. The ride we were on had been really hot that day. My dad missed a stop light and went straight through an intersection that evening, but it was a slow traffic day in a small town and luckily nothing happened.”

Students will bring in their story and object on the day they sign up for. Sharing will start May 5th and run that whole week. We will also record and post the stories on the class website, mrrobertsonshomework.blogspot.com.

4/29/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Tuesday
• Practice comparing fractions
•  Start thinking about Storytelling From Home
• Dear Mr Robertson Letter/behavior chart

4/28/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Monday
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strange	concert	peanut	washcloth	mute
these	wrap	didn’t	pupil	limb
jacket	scarf	orphan	knuckle	you’re
eager	package	wristband	setting	borrow

• Practice comparing fractions
• Dear Mr Robertson letter (if not done)

4/25/14

• Read 25 minutes each night
• Spelling Friday
• Dear Mr Robertson letter
• Parents sign behavior chart
• practice comparing fractions
• Movie Night Tonight- 7pm

4/24/14

• Spelling Thursday
• Read 25 minutes
• practice comparing fractions
• Library tomorrow

Pictures of Comparing Fractions And Tableaux

First, comparing fractions with like numerators or like demoninators

Oops! 2/7 < 3/7

And some Tableaux. Can you guess the word?

Installed

Produce. Yes, she's peeling an orange and he's a banana

4/23/14

• Spelling Wednesday
• Read 25 minutes
• Practice comparing fractions
• Bring library books
• OAKS Math tomorrow

4/22/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Tuesday
• Practice comparing fractions

Comparing Fractions with Like Numerators

Today we are practicing comparing fractions with like numerators. For example:
3/5 > 3/6
2/6 < 2/3

4/21/14

• Spelling Monday
•  
  

mismatch	preview	movement	bicycle	doubtful
restless	restful	direct	direction	director
indirect	autopilot	distrust	unfair	midsummer
misspell	knowledge	misbehave	preheat	disappear

• Read 25 minutes
• Practice comparing fractions

4/17

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Thursday
• Practice fractions
• Return Parent Survey

4/16

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Weds
• Practice Fractions
• TEST TOMORROW 
• Return library books
• Return Parent Survey

4/15

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Tuesday
• Practice Fractions

4/14/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Monday
• 
  

live	lively	relive	living	honor
honorable	honest	honesty	direct	director
direction	indirect	doubt	doubtful	undoubted
know	unknown	knowledge

• practice fractions

Math- Fractions and Length- 4/14

Practicing making fractions and finding out how much of a whole is represented

Human Fraction Number Line Day 2

There is no sound to this video. I guess the microphone on the laptop was off for some reason. You can still tell what we are doing. I give the students a fraction, they write a fraction that would be on that number line and then get in the proper order from 0 to the highest fraction written.
Again, sorry about the sound issues.

4/8

• Read 25 minutes
• Practice math skills
• Conferences Weds and Thursday

3/7/14

• Read 25 minutes
• Practice multiplication 
• No Spelling- Short Week
• Parent Conferences Weds-Friday
• There IS school Weds

Human Number Line

We are practicing fractions and mixed numbers so today we made a human number line.
First, a few pictures making our number line with thirds

Now, a video making number lines with sixths and fourths

4/2

• Read 25 minutes
• Spelling Wednesday
• test tomorrow
• Practice Multiplication
• last timed test tomorrow
• No school Friday

4/1

• Spelling Tuesday
• 
  

  lucky	unlucky	freeze	antifreeze	rest
  restful	restless	fade	miswrite	count
  discount	move	movement	tell	retell
  exactly	disconnect

   
• Read 25 minutes
• Practice Multiplication