2008 September | Mrs. Kiesewetter ~ Math & Science

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Week of 29 September 2008

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Midquarter grades were sent home last Monday and school photos were sent home last Wednesday. If you have not received these items, please check your child’s backpack. There are two things that we are currently waiting on: Tiger Discount Cards and Yellow School T-Shirts. From what I understand, both of these items should be rolling in sometime soon. The discount cards sold so quickly that a second order had to be placed. We are waiting on the card company to get those to us and we will send them home as soon as they arrive. I will send out a notice when they have been sent home so that you will know to ask for them. I am so sorry for the delay.

This week in Math, we are continuing our work with exponents and order of operations. Students may bring a calculator to class and may use it for their homework in these two topics. :o)

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Bracket Basics Activity

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Monday/Wednesday: Project Presentations – Buoyancy

Tuesday/Thursday: Project Presentations

Friday: Project Presentations

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Monday: “Hanging By a Thread” discussion of problem, steps taken, and desired solution

Tuesday: Application of problem/solution in real life

Wednesday: “How to Read a Map” – Text Features and Quick Check

Thursday: “How to Read a Map” – Review Text Features, Answer Guided Practice questiosn

Friday:

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Week of 22 September 2008

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Mid-quarter grades will be coming home on Monday (9/22). Please take a moment to view the grades, discuss them with your child, then sign and cut off the top of the sheet and send it back to school. If you have any questions, please email or call.

REMINDER: NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY (9/26)!!! Teachers will be coming to work, but students will stay at home. )

Yellow WIS shirt orders should be coming in very soon. A HUGE thank you to the PTO who has helped to collect the orders and coordinate the project. PTO also deserves a giant thank you for working with the Tiger Card fundraiser program. All of the original cards were sold and another order has been placed. Tiger Cards will be sent home as soon as the second batch of cards arrives. Great job selling!! The school will benefit by gaining playground equipment and technology resources from the proceeds.

Have a wonderful week!! Keep reading and working on multiplication facts at home!!

Blessings,
Mrs. K.

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Investigation Project: “Try your own investigation. Think of other objects that might act like the raisins and other solutions with gas bubbles. Plan your investigation and bring in the materials you will need to do the experiment. Write your plan, observations, and inferences clearly on the worksheet provided.

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Monday: SSR

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Week of 15 September 2008

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I love math! Yes, I’ll readily admit it now…but there was a time when math wasn’t my favorite subject. I grew up having too easy a time with math in the elementary grades. Math was a subject where we just worked with numbers and didn’t spend time on the “how” or “why” the formulas and algorithms worked. I was good enough at math that I was selected to skip 8th grade mathematics and entered algebra class. I was very excited about it…until the class began. For the first time, I did not understand what was going on. My teacher did not take the time or effort to explain the concepts fully, as he believed we all understood. None of the students asked very many questions because we were embarrassed, scared, and overall extremely overwhelmed with the process. This scenario did not need to take place. Teachers today are much better at actually demonstrating the “how” and “why” of math. Students in my class are always encouraged to ask questions. I want them to love math!!

Here are 10 Suggestions to train your kids to love math:

1) Create a story with math puzzles for your kids to solve.
2) Buy supplemental math books for your kids to solve a few questions per day.
3) Review problem areas with your kids.
4) Check and guide your kids’ homework assignment.
5) Get your kid to memorize multiplication timetables and ask them pop quizzes.
6) If you find you are personally weak in math, you may want to hire a good tutor and observe the teaching method.
7) Do not allow your daughter to believe that girls are weaker in math.
8 ) Encourage your kids that everyone can be good in math if they do some math questions everyday.
9) Reward your kids for getting good grades for math.
10) Tell your kids the importance of math application in daily lives.
• How to compare prices of same products in different weight,
• whether you are given the correct change,
• how much fertilizer to buy for your lawn,
• how much paint you need to paint your house, the list is endless.
• The job of a tailor, carpenter, engineer, nurses, accountants, stockbroker, financial advisor, etc. all need to use math for certain calculations.

Here is an example of a math problem;
- You have a pipe which you need a spare part to connect to it during an emergency. You need its diameter to buy the part.
- You do not have a caliber to measure its diameter. So you have to use the only 2 items you have on hand which are a ruler and some strings. How do you get the diameter? How would you solve the problem?
From: http://www.jesieblogjourney.com/2007/11/10-suggestions-to-train-kids-love-math.html

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Monday: Factor Exploration Projects

QUIZ MONDAY covering Rules of Divisibility, Prime Factorization, and GCF!!

SCIENCE

Investigation Project: “Try your own investigation. Think of other objects that might act like the raisins and other solutions with gas bubbles. Plan your investigation and bring in the materials you will need to do the experiment. Write your plan, observations, and inferences clearly on the worksheet provided.

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Monday: Complete DRA Comprehension packets

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2008

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Week of 8 September 2008

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This week will be different in that we are dismissing early (at 1:45 pm) on Tuesday afternoon due to the Tour of Missouri. We hope that many of you will take the opportunity to watch the race. This week’s article is a list of Creative Ways to Encourage Reading. While it discusses looking online for books, I don’t know if all of you realize that you can search the Springfield-Greene County Library online. I love it! I can run a search for a particular book, author or subject, then use my library card to place a hold, and select at which location I would like to pick up my books. The library does all the searching and running and I simply receive an email when the books are ready for me to go get them. The website where you can search and reserve/hold is: http://www.coolcat.org/screens/sgcl.html. I hope you enjoy browsing all the libraries at once without even starting your car!

Creative Ways to Encourage Reading:

1. Research on reading generally agrees that the most critical aspect of reading is how a child feels about reading. Positive reinforcement from parents and teachers helps. Children need to know that adults in their lives care about reading.

2. A book allowance is a good idea. In addition to whatever other allowance a child may receive, provide an allowance for books. Even if the allowance allows for the purchase of one paperback book or magazine a week, you’ve helped encourage reading.

3. Regular visits to a good magazine rack, coupled with purchases, provide reading material. Parents will probably want to exercise some judgment on reading purchases, but magazines your child shows some interest in and which you approve are a good way to provide material and encourage reading.

4. Subscriptions to a magazine or magazines for your child or student are a good idea. There’s a certain amount of excitement in “ownership” and a for many students it’s very exciting to receive mail.

5. Model reading. Children who see their parents reading, often become readers and come to accept that reading is a matter-of-fact activity.

6. If your child is willing, whatever his or her age, don’t be afraid to read aloud. Reading to children is one of the best ways to encourage interest in reading. Older brothers and sisters can read to younger children. If you’re child is too old to be read to (some would suggest that no one is too old to be read to), just read articles aloud from the newspaper from time to time.

7. Establish a place in the child’s room for his or her books. A feeling of ownership, again, is important.

8. Schedule regular family visits to the library–even if your child doesn’t seem interested in taking out books.

9. Introduce your child to the librarian. Librarians are eager to help children look for interesting reading material. Make sure your child knows the school librarian too.

10. By all means recommend books to your child. Tell the child how difficult the books are (or are not) and let the child decide if he or she wants to read them.

11. If your child starts a book and doesn’t want to finish it — ok. Hasn’t that happened to you?

12. Buy books for yourself and let your children know you do it.

13. If your child decides to read something to YOU…be patient and let him or her read to you.

14. Don’t forget book browsing on the World Wide web. Try Amazon.com as a great starting point.

15. You might find that kids will read pages on the world wide web. Help them find pages with content that fits their own personal interests.

16. It’s important that children have hobbies or interests. Help your children develop such interests and make sure they have or seek reading material about their interests.

17. Praise your child for his or her reading when appropriate. For example, praise the child when a long or difficult book is completed.

18. When a topic of interest develops which involves the whole family–an upcoming trip or vacation, for example–bring home some books on the topic to share with the family.

19. Attend used book sales at libraries and other places where good books can be had inexpensively.

20. Discuss with your child any book he or she is reading for a class at school. Read the book yourself.

21. When you and your child are working on something together have him or her read the directions. Many models and construction kits turn out better when a child reads the instructions aloud.

22. Discuss ideas in books your child reads. For that matter, where appropriate, discuss ideas in books you read. For that matter, read the books your children read.

23. Display good books somewhere in your home. Let children know that books have an important place in the home. And don’t limit the books to a few essentials…have a generous selection of a wide variety of books.

24. Look for computer programs which encourage reading.

25. Check out text adventure games…an old computer game genre which required a lot of reading and thinking. A search on “text adventure games” on a major World Wide Web search program should yield many choices. Check the Creative Teaching Links page for good places to look.

26. Help your child develop a non-sports hobby. Then provide him with books on the hobby. Hobbies help develop curiosity.

Opinions are those of Robert E. Morgan, and are not necessarily the opinions
of any other organization or person.

MATH

Quiz tomorrow

Rules of Divisibility Quiz

SCIENCE

Day 1: Penny Experiment Presentations

Day 2: Penny Experiment Presentations

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Monday: DRA Comprehension Testing

Tuesday: NONE

Wednesday: DRA Comprehension Testing

Thursday: DRA Comprehension Testing

Friday: DRA Comprehension Testing.

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September
2008

Early Dismissal – September 9th0

Dear Parents of Willard Students,

On Tuesday, September 9, 2008, The Tour of Missouri Bike Race will be traveling through the Willard School District. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the race will impact bus routes and access to the campuses at Willard North, Willard South and Intermediate Schools. It will also impact the travel route for buses at Willard High School, Willard Middle School and Willard East Elementary.

Therefore, it will be necessary to dismiss early on September 9, 2008. High School and Middle School students will be dismissed at 12:45 p.m. Elementary and Intermediate students will be dismissed at 1:45 p.m.

The bike route has changed from last year and will be entering Willard from Walnut Grove on Farm Road 123 to Farm Road 68, then on to Highway Z/ Highway AB. Continuing south on Highway AB (Farmer) then east on Farm Road 106, north of the Springfield/Branson Airport, across Kearney then to east bound on Highway EE/Division Street to West Bypass.

Please review the following information provided to us by the Tour of Missouri:

· The Tour of Missouri is scheduled to enter Willard on Highway AB between 2:46 p.m. and 3:47 p.m. This will affect High School, Middle School, Willard Intermediate, Willard North, Willard Central and Willard East bus routes and parent pick-ups.
· The Tour of Missouri is scheduled to travel on Highway EE/ Division from 3:12 p.m. to 4:21 p.m. This will affect Willard South Bus departures and parent pick-ups.
· Intersections and driveways are scheduled to be blocked off 30 minutes prior to the biker’s arrival time on the full tour route. This will affect traffic east and west of AB highway between Farm Road 68 and 106, and Willard South traffic on Division to West Bypass.

Due to this situation, we are anticipating that bus routes and parent pick-ups to Willard North, Willard South, and Willard Intermediate will be limited to campus access. Bus routes for Willard Central along Farm Roads 106, 103 and 104 will also be closed for a period of time. The closing of Highway Z/ Highway AB (Farmer Road) will also limit High School, Middle School, and Willard East bus routes in that area.

The Tour of Missouri is an exciting event, but hope a different time schedule can be addressed in the future. We are sorry that school has to be dismissed early, but feel it is the safest and most responsible plan for students to depart from school on that day. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

As always, thank you for your help!

Sincerely,
Tom Davis

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