Get to bed Wes

It is all of a sudden 12:24 and I am so tired I can't keep my eyes open, and falling asleep at the computer.  I bet the kids never feel that way.  Ha ha.   It is amazing what a little bit of sleep can do for you.

1. Sleep Keeps Your Heart Healthy
2. Sleep May Prevent Cancer
3. Sleep Reduces Stress
4. Sleep Reduces Inflammation
5. Sleep Makes You More Alert
6. Sleep Bolsters Your Memory
7. Sleep May Help You Lose Weight
8. Naps Make You Smarter
9. Sleep May Reduce Your Risk for Depression
10. Sleep Helps the Body Make Repairs

Now how many of these make a difference of how we perform at school?  We will talk about it over the next couple of days.

 http://longevity.about.com/od/longevity101/a/why_we_age.htm 

Good night,

Wes

Common core

There is a lot of people that think the common core has come down from the federal government and that they are making us do it. Well that is just not the case. It has come from states that got together and agreed on a few things that need improvempent. And any state can leave the common core at any time that they think it is not good. Do I think that this is going to be good, I do, I think that it will be good for the kids. And that is what is is all about any way, the kids!
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Here is our writing list for the Holidays
added to and updated.

things we are grateful for
things we remember about grandma and grandpa
santa
clothes, this could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on which angle you were looking at it.
christmas tree in the house and its affects if it has any.
what we want for Christmas and WHY, this could be a good persuasive piece.
does santa still use the same sleigh that he has had for hundreds of years or does he have a new updated sleigh that is all hi tech.
animals, likes don't likes
what if santa used different animals besides reindeer to pull his sled.
a ride on the polar express
snow storm that we had to stay home because of
snow storm during school so that we weren't able to go home because it was so bad
the turkey wasn't dead when we started to cook it
christmas songs, favorite, worst, write one
christmas movies, favorite, worst,
what we should eat instead of the traditional thanksgiving dinner
instead of wearing a red suit what color should santa's suit be
how people from 100 years ago react if they tried to play with the Xbox Kinect
funny or sad christmas and thanksgiving memories.
santa only brought me clothes
if I were santa's head elf




I will be adding to the list and re-posting it through the christmas season.  Please leave more writing ideas in the comments and I will add it to the list when I re-post.

Have a great Thanksgiving and a fantastic Christmas season.

wes

a Water Cycle song

We have started the water cycle in science in my class and I found a cool song, video on you tube.

here it is.

Holiday writing (Thanksgiving through Christmas)

There is something that we always forget when it comes to learning, or doing homework at home.  I have even done it with my kids.  We are working so hard on math and reading that it gets forgotten.  Writing.  And then we come to a holiday like Thanksgiving and homework gets kind of forgotten.  Well we could do some homework without the kids even knowing that it is homework.
So here is some thoughts on things to write about during holidays, Thanksgiving in particular.

things we are grateful for
things we remember about grandma and grandpa
santa
clothes, this could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on which angle you were looking at it.
christmas tree in the house and its affects if it has any.
what we want for Christmas and WHY, this could be a good persuasive piece.
does santa still use the same sleigh that he has had for hundreds of years or does he have a new updated sleigh that is all hi tech.
animals, likes don't likes
what if santa used different animals besides reindeer to pull his sled.
a ride on the polar express
snow storm that we had to stay home because of
snow storm during school so that we weren't able to go home because it was so bad
the turkey wasn't dead when we started to cook it
christmas songs, favorite, worst, write one
christmas movies, favorite, worst,
what we should eat instead of the traditional thanksgiving dinner
instead of wearing a red suit what color should santa's suit be
how people from 100 years ago react if they tried to play with the Xbox Kinect


Yes my kids helped me with part of the list.
I will be adding to the list and re-posting it through the christmas season.  Please leave more writing ideas in the comments and I will add it to the list when I re-post.

Have a great Thanksgiving and a fantastic Christmas season.

wes

Does your kid struggle with 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication?

Here is a little idea that might give some help.
We can call it box multiplication, and it will give us our partial products.
partial=part
Product= the answer to a multiplication problem.

So we will get the Partial products and then add them together.

Here is the link to the video. Click here

Dino pee? Yes

So take a second and think how logical this is.  Why did dino's pee?  They drank water, they drank it from some source; river, lake, pond, somewhere.  Then it came out and landed on the ground.  The water then permeated through the ground.  From there it evaporated out of the ground or a plant used it, or it ends up in some underground water collection.  Then back to a river, or water vapor and then condenses into a cloud, or back to a plant or animal, and then into a lake and then evaporated and then to the ocean and then...  The water cycle process isn't much like a circle, it is a here and there and then back over here then there and back over there.
    The other thing we need to remember is that you can't get rid of water.  When you boil water does it disappear?  No the water that was in the pot is now water vapor in the air.   Water is matter that can not be destroyed it just changes stages.

Enjoy drinking that dinosaur pee.
(of course it is not the exact same, but the water particles are the same.)


wes