Math Transfer Task

Congratulations! You are opening a sports outlet store. You know your target consumers enjoy sports activities and want to have a variety of sneaker types from which to choose. For your first order, not only do you want to stock your shelves with plenty of inventory for the first 3 months, but you also want an extra 38% reserve to be sure the shelves are never bare. You have investigated a similar store’s weekly sales to help guide your ordering process.

    Type of Sneaker                   Pairs Sold                   Profit Per Pair

     Adidas                                       124                           $4.78

     Nike                                             64                           $3.35

     Tiger                                            49                           $7.19

     Saucony                                      42                         $12.51

     Converse High Top                   21                      $6.15

 

You order should include:

1.        evidence that you have a 3 month supply of each type

2.        evidence you have an extra 38% reserve

3.        an explanation of the process used and how you calculated

4.        graphic representation of the process used

5.        completed order form including the name of your new sports outlet store

6.        expected profit if 40% of each type of your total stock of shoes sell, expected profit if 60%, and expected profit if 75% sell

Colonial Jobs

This week, the class will read about different jobs back in colonial times.  Everyone got a different book that details the job that they are responsible for reading about and sharing with the class on Thursday.  Time was spent today coming up with a list of what is expected to learn and share about the job your child was given.  Here are the basics:
1.  What is a description of my job?
2.  How was my job done?
3.  What tools were needed to do my job?
4. What education/training was needed to do my job?
5.  What would I wear at my job?
6.  What were the safety issues/dangers of my job?
7.  How did I get paid for my job?
8.  What were the hours I had to work?
9.  Was my job/service valued by the people?
10.  What were some sights, smells, and sounds associated with my job?
11.  Would I have liked this job?



The work for this project will be done in class tomorrow and Wednesday and the project will be presented on Thursday.  Most of the students got through a majority of the reading, but should finish most of it tonight so they are ready to start organizing notes about their job tomorrow.  The presentation on Thursday will be to speak about your job as if you are actually a colonist doing the job at that moment.  This is meant to be a fun activity where the kids teach each other details about the different jobs in America 200 years ago.  The discussion has been meaningful when we compare jobs to the past to jobs of today.  The kids may dress in a simple costume or in regular clothes.

Due tomorrow:

Reading:
+  LOG on your NEW orange log sheet (remember that ALL assigned reading counts toward your log reading!!)
+  Read your colonial job book (if you don't finish, that is OK - you'll have time tomorrow too)
+ Genre project due on Monday, March 4.

Math:
5G has a test Thursday and the study guide is due tomorrow.  There should be many practice pages to prepare for this test.  You can also look on line for more practice with coordinates, quadrants, and transformations.

5K and 5R both have homework as well

Social Studies:
Finish reading chapter 9 and fill in your study guide (many finished with time in class)

Work Work:
30 points of activities due tomorrow
Test tomorrow!

Short but Sweet....

That is this week...short and sweet!   Today, we had some excitement as we began our research on our Revolutionary War figures.  Each student got to choose from a list of people important to the war and today we headed to the lab to do some online research using sites that were linked to my blog.  The students were directed to organize their research as they found it into categories like early life, family, education, achievements, etc.  This will help them as they go to USE their research into the assigned format.  Feel free to continue the research at home.  We will move on to using encyclopedias, our social studies textbook, and other book sources here at school.

Today we also enjoyed learning about Henri Matisse during Art Awareness with Mrs. Gudgeon.  The students created some abstract art using many paper choices.  I would love to display some of these in the classroom when students are finished so please remind your child to bring back their art work when done. 

As this is Black History Month, today we read about Benjamin Banneker, the first black man to write and have an almanac published.  It directly ties in with our studies of the American Revolution as Banneker was a supporter of equal rights and actually published a letter he wrote to Thomas Jefferson criticizing him for "talking the talk," but not "walking the walk,"  when it came to equal rights for all men.  We talked about how it is important to speak up for what we believe, even if that means writing the President himself!

Tonight is the Science Fair from 6:30 - 8:00. Come support your classmates if you can.

Homework tonight:

Math - my class has journal page 175 - 176, study your notes and the highlighted words on page 176
The other two classes have a sheet of homework as well...

Reading - Bring your PRB each day.  The next genre project is due March 4.  You should be finishing your reading and begin working on the project.  Be thoughtful when reading the directions for your project and be complete when doing your project.  Remember - presentations should be 2-5 minutes in length, so PRACTICE AT HOME!

Work Work - 30 points of work due Tuesday.  Test will be Tuesday. 

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Whew!  We are exhausted!  Not just due to today's Jump Rope for Heart, but this week has been busy, busy, busy!!  Today, we got our social studies test back.  Most of us did well on the multiple choice, but the challenge came when we had to put our thinking into written responses.  If anyone thinks their written responses deserve more credit, they have a chance to earn some by defending their answer in writing, using evidence from social studies text pages.  That needs to be signed by a parent and is due, with the test, next Wednesday.

Tomorrow is our BIG Snow Treasure test.  This will include comprehension questions and a COMPREHENSIVE vocabulary test (over all flashcards).  We should prepare by studying the study guide (with a parent would be great) and the flashcards (or Quizlet).  That will take place in the morning.

Remember that reading log that you should still be filling out with your daily reading?  That will be collected and checked next Wednesday when we conference, so please be prepared! Also, don't forget about the February genre choice.  You need to let me know your choice next Wednesday and the project is NOW DUE On Monday, March 4!  After this project, we have only one more and that will be due the end of April.

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's evening with your family!  Give lots of hugs and kisses (unless someone is sick, then stick to the air-kiss!).  Thank you all for the "LOVE"ly valentines!!

There's going to be a revolution!

Parents,
As you probably saw in my email yesterday, this will be a busy week. Please take a moment to talk to your child about their letter to you in their composition books about how to manage their studies so they come to school feeling prepared and confident! While we have a good amount of time to work on different items, some kids are still working on using time efficiently so they may have more coming home.

Here's what is going on this week:

Writing:
newsletters are to be read and signed by Wednesday

Math:
5G - 2 sheets for today, evens only (reading problems carefully)
        also, study guide is due Wednesday, there will be time in class tomorrow to work
        TEST Thursday
5K - sheet
5R - three study link pages

Social Studies:
Read lesson 3 on the start of the Revolution!
There will be time to work on the study packet tomorrow, but some questions should be answered as homework.
TEST ON WEDNESDAY!!

Reading:
Snow Treasure - READ ONLY CHAPTER 26 and 27 - THEN STOP!!!
Flashcards from today and last Friday - quiz will be Thursday morning
Snow Treasure test will be Friday (this will include a cumulative vocabulary section)

As another reminder, your child should have his or her February genre selection made.  Next week, there is no school on Monday or Tuesday so those would be great days to catch up or finish reading.  If there are any questions about the projects that are NOW due on March 5, please let me know.

What do YOU think?

We have a lot of opinions this week!  We have started our study and practice with persuasive thinking and writing and have been busy using our opinions in almost every subject area. During read aloud, we have expressed our opinions on what we believe Brady should do with the decision he has to make (today, we even wrote and shared some alternative endings to the story).  Of course, the students had many opinions about the taxation activity we did on Tuesday.  Also, we have learned that the colonists had differening opinions about who to be loyal to before the Revolutionary War.  Our main goal will be to be able to produce an effective argument on a topic using many supportive reasons and organized writing!

If you have not returned the conference note that came home this week, please do so by tomorrow.

Here is our homework for the day:
Reading:

• Read Snow Treasure chapters 24 and 25
• Annotate on character development (what are you learning about the characters, specifically Jan Lasek?)

Math:

• 5G has 1 1/2 worksheets on finding the percent of a number (remember to THINK about what makes sense)
• 5K - a sheet
• 5R - a sheet

Social Studies:   

• Review lesson 2
• Read page 281 carefully - create a picture of the First Continental Congress.  What would that have LOOKED like and SOUNDED like (include three speech bubbles)?  Be creative!

THERE WILL BE MORNING TIME TO WORK ON SOCIAL STUDIES IF YOUR SNOW TREASURE WORK TAKES YOU A LITTLE LONGER!

Writing:  quite a few kids still need to get this week's newsletter signed

RJ Palacio Trip

The whole 5th grade went to Metea Valley High School this morning to listen to the author RJ Palacio talk about her career and her book, Wonder.  We all learned so much and enjoyed the time we had with her, learning about where the idea for this "wonder"ful book came from.  We spent time today after the trip talking about how WE can respond, with KINDNESS, to people who are different from us in any way.  We created and acted out quick skits about possible situations we may be in where we may be faced with someone who looks or acts different.  It is helpful to talk about exactly what you might say in one of these situations so that you aren't so overwhelmed by fear that you forget to be kind.  The kids did  a great job and we had a great discussion.

We are in the second half of our Snow Treasure novel and are to carefully read chapter 18 (it's only 3 pages) and complete the DR-TA sheet.  This is a Directed Reading - Thinking Activity that helps direct students' thinking as they move through text.  Much like the annotations we have been working on, this activity reminds us to visualize, reread, read ahead, make predictions, and make sense of what we have read.  We also have flashcards to study for our weekly quiz.  Tomorrow, we will work through a few more chapters and will finish the book this week. 

If you would like to see some interesting annotations RJ Palacio made of her own writing in Wonder, check out her website for Wonder HERE.  These are thoughts she made as she read back over her own work.  As we have been working on in writing, there is great value in going back through your writing to make sure you've gotten your point across in an understandable way!


Homework for today:
Read chapter 18 in Snow Treasure
Complete the DR-TA
Finish and study flashcards

My math class has math boxes and a sheet of practice due on Thursday, even though we will have math tomorrow.