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9/27/13

9/27/2013

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We had another fire drill
We met Mrs. VanGo (Esther, My wife)
Gym: gymnastics
Our first South Hill Shines for the year
Estimation with multiplication
Finished storyboards and worked on Frindle or the Report Card.
Sophia and the BFG have hatched a grand plan.
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9/26/13

9/26/2013

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They caught dreams and blew a nightmare into FleshLumpEaters face. (BFG)
We had 2 firedrills today!
We finished our websquests for government
We started our letter to the city council
How to multiply 10s, 100s, and 1000s
Some of us read Frindle, The Report Card, and some finished storyboards.


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9/24/13

9/24/2013

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We made our own personal e-portfolio website
We took a baseline ELA writing test
Art: Popcorn party and square one art
The BloodBottler Giant hates shnozzcumbers (BFG)
Scavenger hunt webquest about our brnaches of government (federal, sta

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9/23/13

9/23/2013

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The BFG collects dreams
We played Branches of Power and learned how to make a LAW
Prime Factorization and Factor trees
Frindle storyboards and summarization

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9/20/13

9/20/2013

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We watched Matilda and compared it to the book
Factors and multiples
Frindle chapter 6 and storyboards
Rural adventure at the Youth Center

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9/19/13

9/19/2013

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Started the book The BFG, and sophie was kidnapped by the BFG
We made class goals and rewards for good behavior
We took our Baseline Math test.  No math HW
We played a game about being the president and how he/she works with the other two branches
We worked on our setting paragraphs and read.
PE: gymnastics
We reviewed EDMODO and how to use it.


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9/18/13

9/18/2013

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We finished the book Matilda, and she was adopted by Miss Honey
We continued to use rounding in division
We organized our desks
Character traits list and played charades with traits
word of the day: Phenomenon
We started the Class Dojo point chart
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9/17/13

9/17/2013

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We found out that Miss Trunchbull is Miss Honey's evil aunt
We learned to round with operations (adding, subtracting, division, etc
We learned about the Three branches of government and their duties
There are checks and balances in the government
gymnastics in PE
We had a fire drill
Library: we took a Multiple intelligence survey

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9/16/13

9/16/2013

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Sorry the post is a bit late
  • Matilda has telekinetic powers and made a fool of Miss Trunchbull
  • Rounding and approximation in math
  • Adjectives, character traits and their differences
  • Classroom jobs
  • Setup our Edmodo accounts
  • Nick delivered his Dictionary report in Frindle.

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9/13/13

9/13/2013

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  • Matilda: Lavender is willing to play a prank on Miss Trunchbull
  • There is a debate about cursive in school
  • William Shakespeare invented over 2000 words and phrases
  • Scientific notation in math
  • Nick in Frindle is not happy with Miss Granger for the oral report
  • The proper way to use a paper towel.
  • There are over 1.2 billion lbs of paper towels used every year

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9/12/13

9/12/2013

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Today we learned about/did:
  • Finished our nonsense word dictionaries
  • Gardner's Multiple intelligences and how we learn differently
  • Millions billions and place value
  • Started  the book Frindle for ELA
  • Bruce Bogtrotter ate a whole cake in Matilda

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9/11/13

9/11/2013

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Today we learned...
  • Mental math tricks
  • delegating  our science project materials
  • about parts of dictionaries
  • how words are made
  • we made 3 nonsense words and wrote dictionary definitons for them
  • Miss Trunchbull is horrible and Matilda is a genius

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9/10/13

9/10/2013

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We learned about...
  • Bullying
  • What each other is good at
  • Making rules for our classroom
  • Maltilda
  • Our book reports
  • science experiment about how to find the ball that will travel the farthest.

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9/9/13

9/9/2013

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We had a great first day!
We
  • took a fun quiz where the students learned about me. 
  • We went over a few classroom procedures.
  • Made human number lines based on shoe size, hair color, age, siblings etc.
  • A letter to themselves explaining to themselves and myself what they are excited and nervous about this year.
  • read-a-loud Matilda
  • the toilet paper/snowball fight icebreaker.

It was great to meet all of the students and I can tell this is a great bunch of kids.  I can already tell we will have an awesome year being with the students for only a few minutes.



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    Mr. VanGo

    5th Grade teacher at Caroline Elementary.

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