Mr. Blanc's Class

Report Cards Second trimester report cards were sent home with students on Friday, 3/24. Please sign the envelope and send it back with your student when they return to school after spring break. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns after looking at the report card of your student.  Spring Break Reading Log Students came home with an optional spring break reading log. The student who reads the most over the break will get on the wall of fame. Front Row Math Challenge The student who completes the most minutes on the Front Row math will also get on the wall of fame. Have a great spring break!  

Inquiry We finished the voting on our classroom bills. Two of the five bills passed both the Senate and House of Representatives and have now become classroom laws. The culminating activity in our study of values and their affect on leadership, will involve the students researching a historical bills and telling the story of the bill through a cartoon. This was modeled to the students as we studied the Oregon Bottle Bill together. Now they get to choose a bill that interests them and tell its story. Ask your student which historical bill they want to research.   Math Students will be coming home on Monday with their end of fractions module assessment. There was an email sent out last week explaining why this assessment looks different than previous math assessments. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns after looking over the test of your student. Our next math unit will cover metric units. This is a short unit that only covers 5 lessons. In order to prepare st

Inquiry Students have been working hard in their committees to write a bill that solves a problem in our classroom. They are attempting to consider the values of the community in their solutions. We will be voting on the bills on Monday, 3/13. In order for a bill to pass it will have to receive a majority yes vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. If a bill passes both legislative groups, it will then have to be approved by Governor Blanc.      Reading Our class has taken on the yearlong task of determining which idiom of the week is most commonly used in literature and everyday life. Anytime a student encounters one of the idioms of the week they will document it and add it to our class tally. Ask your student which idiom they predict will end up being the most common.  Idiom of the week: Let the cat out of the bag Math   We will start next week on lesson 37 in our study of fractions. Our end of unit test will be taking place on Friday, 3/17. You can hel

Inquiry  Students will continue exploring the central idea of community values impact leaders and decision making. Our class will be divided into Senators and Representatives. Then students will be placed in a committee. Each committee will write a classroom bill that they believe represents the values of our classroom community. At the end of the week each of the bills will get put before the House and the Senate. In order for a bill to become a classroom law, it will need to get a majority vote in both the House and Senate, and it will also have to be signed by Governor Blanc. Writing Next week we will begin working on persuasive writing. First, we are going to all write an opinion paper about the same topic and later students will get a chance to write a persuasive paper on a topic of their choice. The techniques learned during writing will come in very handy when students attempt to convince their classmates to vote for their classroom bill. Reading Reading logs are due on T