Eureka Math Tip Sheets and General Information for Families

Dear Families, 

Please fine below the links to the Roadmap for Eureka for 5th Grade and the "Parent Tip Sheets" for current Unit. 

Parent Roadmap to Eureka

Parent Tip Sheets for Eureka Math Unit 1

Earth as an Orange - Peeled

Hi Families,

We have some samples of our Earth as an Orange Dissection...Here's the first....

Remy's !

Awesome, eh? 

Reidar prepping for dissection. 

Good try, Colin!

 Andrew M's - The butterfly

Madelyn's Good & Glossy

Snack time, Reidar!

Precise work, Maysa!

Orange Toad, Nice Will!

Great Map, Marika!

Nice idea, Ben M!

Orange Cardiogram - Intricate layout idea - Isiah's

Orange as the Earth Project

Students learned new vocabulary of geography and maps and refreshed old concepts in drawing the 2 dimensional map of the earth on the 3D Orange Globe Model.  I've asked the students to dissect the orange at home, peeling the peel from fruit flesh and laying the peel onto a flat surface to see how closely their maps came out.  This is definitely an experiment, but they can see if the orange is edible and refresh their day's learning as they try this orange dissection.  Then they can ingeniously bring their orange peel maps back to class on a presentation material of their choice to class on Wednesday or email me images of the finished product.  This takes the place of Tuesday's Math HW as well. 

A note on homework

Note, in order to develop student responsibility and organizational skills, that the primary mode of homework communication will be via the student planner and students have the responsibility to complete and use these. 

Additionally, I will provide occasional homework information to aid in clarifications, to support student projects,  and to give suggestions on how homework support could look like at home through, for example, the Connections section of the outlook newsletters. 

Please note however, there are not current plans for daily homework specifics to be posted online. 

HIVE5 Connection - Week of September 12

Posts for the week will be organized by these sections: 

I. Calendar, II. Content & III. Connections.

*Please look for updates on this same page throughout the week* 

 

    Monday :  

Ballroom Dancing Begins! - and will be on Mondays and Thursdays from 12:55 - 1:40.

Bring an orange to school for class tomorrow. Mr, Hagstrom and others will bring in extra oranges for anybody who doesn't have time to run out for an orange. Feel free to bring along an extra to be shared. Thank you! 

Homework Packets were sent home for the week.  There are two pages of math homework on Monday. For an electronic copy of the packet, please click here. 

Tuesday:  Earth modeled on an Orange. See related post on Tuesday.

Wednesday:  Began our non-fiction science and conservation reading.  Students brought in flattened orange peel representations of the earth or had sent in images of their dissection at home.  See the Peel Post.  Tuesday and Wednesday nights' math homework was assigned to be completed for Thursday's class. 

Thursday:  The Reader's Response link has been updated for week 3'(this week). 
Thursday's math homework has been cancelled.   In substitution there is a homework letter writing assignment for Dancing Classroom's.   That homework is to be given to Ms. Chantel next Thursday, and collected by me by Tuesday, but my suggestion is that they finish it tonight if possible.  Here are Dancing Letter.

Thursday:  Curriculum night. 

II.  Content

In math we are working on linear measurement in the metric system from millimeters to kilometers, including examples for each unit of measurement.  ( A pinky finger for a centimeter...) Then we are making conversions in metric units and writing expressions of this with exponents. 

In reading we began the science non-fiction reader's workshop unit.  We will be reading about wildlife and habitat studies and conservation efforts for various organisms.  Some reading areas we will focus on are annotations, asking "thick questions", note-taking, and vocabulary. 

We are also continuing with the reading aloud of Wonder and students will be reading their social science texts.

In social studies we will continue to explore basic geography focusing on the finding locations with longitude and latitude, as well as basic map features: compass rose, equator, prime meridian, the poles, continents, and oceans. Our orange as a globe explored the relationship between the 3D earth and a two-dimensional earth relating land forms to the hemispheres.  

At present moment, writing is being integrated into the reading unit through written responses to read alouds and thinking on paper about our community building topics (getting to know each other).

III. Connections

Ask your student about their thoughts of the read aloud, Wonder, and "The Bee Sting" or "Optimist, Pessimist, Contortionist";  how  they felt they were leaning about the first dance steps; and questions that involve knowledge or practice in identifying or measuring linear metric distance:  how many kilometers is it to Seattle? How many centimeters is your foot? your bed? What fruit in your house is about the size of a decimeter? (quite possibly an orange). 

With the Earth as an Orange project, ask questions about the 4 oceans and 7 continents, the Prime Meridian and equator.  Does your child remember the approximate latitude of Washington?  How is latitude part of the information that a G.P.S. provides? 

Come to Thursday's  IVE Curriculum Night Thu, Sep 15, 2016,5:30 PM to 7:45 PM

This week we will begin organizing the Art Docents for our class; and I will be providing a way to sign up for 
volunteering in class/ school...more to follow. 

Thank you

HIVE5 Connection - Week of September 5

Dear Families,

    In the first 6 days of the 2106-17 school year, we have been building community, learning expectations and routines, working as a team, and began to learn our subject matter.  We are off to a solid start and the students present themselves respectfully and are engaged and I think content.  It's good to note we are sharing laughter and the class environment is positive.
     In math we have begun the new Eureka curriculum are working with place value, exponents, decimal numbers, efficient problem solving, and applying concepts to word problems.  We focus especially on problem set up, cooperative work, and sharing our problem solving strategies.
    In reading and writing students experienced read alouds, including from Wonder, and edited stories from Demetri Martin's This is a Book.  There were class and partner discussions, and journal writing entries connected with our reading material.  One focus has been on reading fiction embedded with multiple perspective, including Martin's "Bee Sting," which students found was very humorous and unique.  Today, Friday, students tried their hand at writing their own multiple perspective stories, and this was really more difficult than it at first appears.
  Students also read Japanese Tanka poetry and thought about the special qualities and features of our area that they could share with people from other far away places. And last week we shared a childhood story called Guillermo Jorge Manual Jose in Spanish and English as a springboard to connect with how objects and events, and memory interconnect and relate us back to our families.
     We have also begun a social studies unit on U.S. geography focusing on hemispheres, continents, oceans, and describing location with latitude and longitude.
     Finally we began to explore and organize the class library together and students began checking out class reading materials. Students have begun taking their agendas home and I'm having them begin to write readings in them as this may be a starting point for conversations at home.

     Note also that we had a class meeting with our Dancing Classrooms Teacher.  We also set the schedule for dance lesson program and we actually will begin Monday at 12:55, and our class will meet in the music portable building for approximately 40 minutes.  The students were not privy to the Monday start up time since a meeting to determine the schedule was after school today, Friday.

     In sum everything is going very nicely and I feel really good about our start.  Please continue to encourage your child to read 20 - 30 minutes a night, and hopefully considerably more at times, depending on homework, home schedules, and everything else our children immerse themselves into...
    I have decided to begin my web presence with Blogger given it's ease of use and access, but I may need to use connect for some communications, documents, and privacy.  I'll inform you as a useful structure develops. The name of the Blog is HIVE5G, based on Hagstrom IVE 5th Grade and is accessible currently with public access at http://hive5g.blogspot.com/.   Next on my list to set up is the Reading Homework on-line Reporting access, which a couple of families have already asked about.  Thanks for your patience as I continue to set-up systems in a step-wise manner consistent with instructional priorities.

    Additionally, keep an eye out for communications on Curriculum Night, Art Docent Volunteers, and Classroom Volunteers.  Several of you have offered help and this is much appreciated.

    Have a wonderful weekend!

     Mr. Hagstrom

Daily Schedule

Daily Schedule for 5th Grade w/Mr. Hagstrom - 

Fixed Times & Guide Times

 8:40    Math

 9:10    Hagstrom and Garlisch have specialists, then resume math

 9:45    Math

 10:20  Writing

 11:00  Recess

 11:25  Lunch

 11:45  Word work

 12:05  Reading

 1:20    “Community meeting Time, Special projects, and Extension” 

 1:40    Recess

 2:00    Social studies/Science  - Tuesday Computer Lab

 2:45ish  Clean up, 2:48 Safety Patrol Squad & Kindergarter Escorts Leave

 2:55    Dismissal

Specials Schedule:  Mr. Hagstrom, 5th Grade

Monday:            Library:                9:12 - 9:42

Tuesday:            Music:                  9:12 - 9:42

                                                                           Computers          2:00 - 2:30

Wednesday:        PE:                       9:12 - 9:42

Thursday:           Music:                  9:12 - 9:42

Friday:                PE:                       9:12 - 9:42

Art Docent:   TBA

Dance:Mondays and Thursdays 12:55 - 1:40

About Bradley Hagstrom

About Bradley Hagstrom

    I join IVE looking forward to a great year with our students, the caring and wise 5th grade team, and the respected IVE community.  While  I am new to Issaquah and Washington, I arrive prepared by a journey of teaching more than 20 years in Michigan, Colorado, California, South America, and Eastern Europe.  My experience is split evenly between between secondary and elementary teaching, and I have taught courses ranging from Geography and Spoken Word Poetry, K-12 ESL and Creative Writing, Computer Graphic Design & Bilingual Mathematics, to Social Studies and the awesome age group to which I now return: 5th Grade.

    There are so many things I love to do.  If a short list or favorites were written on handfuls of jacks, and tossed into the air, they might fall out like this: kayak on a lake in June; help my son climb the jungle gym and marvel in his huge grin when he luges down; drink coffee in afternoon sun with a notebook, compose a poem;  ride my mountain bike in a wood's trail; chat with a friend in England about a passage or an image on the Web; cook something totally new and taste it the whole way through; soccer game at the park; have a picnic with brats and a sparkly with friends, my wife, my daughter, my son...and reading a story with yours. 

      I look very forward to meeting all of you, and especially to what I'll learn to know of you. I'm sure that we'll have a great year.  'Til soon!

     Kind Regards,

     Bradley Hagstrom