tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858486128638562642024-03-05T16:20:53.062-08:00Mr. Funk's ClassMr Funkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580254218262887669noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-43560588401744436282017-10-26T14:28:00.003-07:002017-10-26T14:28:58.926-07:00Quarter 1 Reflection<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am one of Mr. Funk’s students. My experience of 6th grade so far has been amazing! All of the freedom you receive as a 6th grader is a interesting new experience. I have learned so much in the first quarter of 6th grade in Mr. Funk’s class. The way Mr. Funk teaches math is a amazing method. He does an amazing job of explaining and makes learning enjoyable! Science is something I do not really enjoy, but hopefully I will like it more by the end of the year. I have big goals to keep my grades up throughout all of 6th grade and I think Mr. Funk will help me reach this goal. </span></span></div>
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Mr Funkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580254218262887669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-65051845824963679052016-08-16T20:40:00.002-07:002016-08-16T20:40:43.415-07:00Welcome!Hello Sixth Grade Families!<br />
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Welcome to my class website! We will go over it together in class so you can see the different things that I have set up and you can make suggestions for things that you would like to have added. I'm looking forward to starting this school year and getting to know all of you tomorrow!<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Wednesday is a day everybody likes. School starting late helps everybody (almost). <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_287798187" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">This Wednesday</span></span> started out good. Our class began the day with a warm up of science workbook pages and spelling workbook pages. People started turning them in, so I started working. After warm up, Mr. Funk started calling out chromebooks, so people could start to finish up on their state reports, D.A.R.E. reports, and Student Treasures Publishing Book. I turned in my state report which was on Hawaii. I was about add my final touches to my D.A.R.E. report when Mr. Funk told #33-20 to log out and turn our chromebooks in. I took my computer to the cart and sat back down. Table groups started lining up for recess. Many of the boys (including me) were upset that we had to line up in number order. We had to wait until our lines were good to go outside for recess. I don't know how it happened, but our number order line restriction was lifted. The boys were happy, but noisy. The girls had to line up in number order. The boys happily went off to recess with the girls following behind. <i>So the moral of the story is : Be good. You will be rewarded. </i>Eh. Too classic. <i>The new moral of the story is : With great privileges comes great responsibility. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~Sathvik</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-22275648522235994482016-03-21T17:43:00.003-07:002016-03-21T17:45:21.501-07:00Living Museum VideoDid you know that Miss Landis put together a video of our class and Mrs. Lack's class when we had our Living Museum? Watch it below!<br />
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Everybody should always be thankful for what they have, Thanksgiving or not. That's what I learned today. Being absent for two days last week, I had to take a benchmark test. Yet I was irritated, not being prepared. But after a while, not only did I realize that it wasn't a test to be prepared for and a test that measures your general knowledge, but I figured that if I were to be in middle school or high school at that moment, I wouldn't get a second chance, and I would be in BIG trouble. So, today I learned that Thankfulness comes in handy to help you in the future with Reality.</div>
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It definitely isn't our fault if we happen to get sick and we can't go to school. But School isn't the only place that gives you education. Life itself can teach you only so many lessons in just one day.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-65317793434971610382016-03-15T15:00:00.000-07:002016-03-15T15:00:05.194-07:00State Reports and Published Books<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Today we started the day off with some writing. We were allowed to either research and write notes for our state report, or write our story for a published book that our class was going to make. For the state report, we were suppose to write down some notes on a piece of paper Mr. Funk gave us, then start writing a report about our state. When we finished our report, we would use the information to make a state float. I am really excited about making the float because it seems really fun to design a float to represent your state. I am also looking forward to writing a story for my class's published book. Everyone is suppose to write a story that can be fiction or non-fiction. We would put the stories together in a book that would get published. That is one of the main things we did today, and I am really looking forward to working more on these projects.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">~Isabel</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-50889436242549653612016-03-14T17:50:00.000-07:002016-03-14T17:50:02.749-07:00Friday<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Today in class we started off our day with a spelling test about all the different there's. After science lab we made a story non-fiction or fiction with different rules that we had to include in our story. Then in social studies we continued learning about colonies and the Revolutionary War.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">~Diego</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-23020379090559949752016-03-08T15:00:00.000-08:002016-03-08T15:00:23.401-08:00Firemen?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Julia</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-89366369115533357502016-03-07T18:11:00.001-08:002016-03-07T18:11:47.409-08:00Living Museum<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Today was another one of those busy days, but it was good. We had the Living Museum and many classes came to see us with our costumes and artifacts on our table. Some of our parents came and saw us present our speeches. Before the Living Museum I wasn't that nervous but I was afraid that I would forget my lines. And unfortunately I did forget my lines a couple times. I also had a hard time putting my artifacts up on the table on time. But the rest of the things went well. I hope to do something like this (but a little easier) in the future. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">~Hannah</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-50632578455319886662016-03-04T15:00:00.000-08:002016-03-04T15:00:02.208-08:00Living Museum Prep<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Today was the day right before the big day, WHERE YOU HAVE TO SPEAK TO ALL THE CLASSES ABOUT YOUR SPEECH! Everyone is supposed to hustle and get their artifacts, memorized speech, and photo done! I was nervous because public speaking is not really my regular thing. Luckily, I was prepared, sort of. My mom and I worked on the remaining artifacts, and we did a lot of research on recently played basketball games. Yes, it was really tiring. So far, the artifacts were the hardest part. At school, the last minute Living Museum Prep was taking up part of the day. After recess, Mrs. Lack came in for storytime. I thought she came in for the Living Museum stuff. Her class is doing it too. I think everyone's nervous, especially me because I don't like memorizing speeches. I wish everyone luck on their speeches </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_843901873" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">~Siddharth</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-47085212351437694862016-03-03T14:07:00.001-08:002016-03-03T14:07:44.696-08:00Tuesday Speeches<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">One of the things we did today for speeches were really awesome. Some people wore mustaches and a person (which was me) wore a mustache and a wig! Some people memorized their speech, some people brought note cars and some people brought papers to help them with their speeches but some people forgot their papers so they couldn't practice their speeches yesterday (Tuesday) and today (Wednesday). I kinda felt sad for them. But, fortunately, I got to go! Yay! I had a feeling of fear, nervousness and happiness inside myself. Many people brought their persons' pictures and the ten artifacts but sadly some people forgot both their 10 artifacts AND their persons' picture. But it was really fun seeing many people do their speeches. Some people said jokes about them, some people brought weird/funny props and some even did something fun with their props! I wish tomorrow will be the same thing and I wish that they would be as fun to watch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">~Ashwin</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-75303219438761676992016-03-01T18:27:00.001-08:002016-03-01T18:28:02.494-08:00Science Lab<span id="docs-internal-guid-bd19d0d8-3526-ecf8-9f8d-3054f5626654"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What we did in science lab that was pretty cool was that we talked about “you can't make something out of nothing!” So really we were talking about photosynthesis. But after we switched gears we did something pretty cool but also a little scary. What Mrs Holder told us to do was fill a little container up that is the width of our pinky. Then Mrs Holder passed around 1 antacid pill. Which we will have to put in the water ourselves. She did advise us to put the cap on really quickly. We were all scared. Suddenly we heard a POP or BANG! It was one of our containers exploding towards the ceiling. Another one and another and another they were just blowing up! Some sadly didn't blow up. I called those ones a dud. Mrs Holder announced that she was going to pick them up. But someone said “What about the ones that didn't blow up?” KKAAABANG. Suddenly someone else’s exploded on our table, I jumped out of my seat! Then it turned 9:45 and we had to leave the science lab. That was probably the coolest science blowing-up-things project I have ever done.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Dominic</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-48481492634347790122016-02-16T18:41:00.003-08:002016-02-16T18:41:28.342-08:00Living Museum<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of my favorite things that my class and I did today in school was writing. I enjoyed doing writing today because I found out that my class will be doing the Living Museum. The Living Museum is where each person in our class would present a speech in front of kindergartners, first graders, second graders, third graders and so on. The speech is going to be about an important African American that did something that impacts our world. For this project, everyone in my class has to pick an African American of our liking. One of the “rules” was that two people can not be the same person, though 1 person can be someone like Matt Baker and the other could be Johnny Bright. After recess my class and I went to Mrs. Lack’s class to learn things we should do to make our speech mesmerizing. At the end of our lesson for the Living Museum each person told their peers how they might start their speech. For instance, “Good morning, my name is _____, and I’m most famous for _____. Therefore I really enjoyed starting the Living Museum and I’m really excited to do a presentation or speech that involves so many wonderful and exciting things. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your patience yesterday as we battled the challenges with the math videos. It appears that the new filters on student accounts have blocked my math videos, which is why there were some issues loading them through the student login. Additionally, EDpuzzle was having their own issues. About 9pm I heard from them that it was not just our class experiencing difficulties. At 1am, they sent me an issue saying that the problems have been resolved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, with the program maintenance that they had to do, our video and all student work was lost for yesterday's assignment and all students were removed from our EDpuzzle class. Because of this, our math time today was spent one of two ways: working on a challenge if students watched the video, or working with me in a small group if they were unable to watch the video or did not understand it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I expect that the EDpuzzle homework will be working tonight with a few changes. As our class was deleted, I have emailed the students instructions to join a new class. They should not be using their school Google accounts to access the program, at least until the filtering system is adjusted. A new username scheme has been emailed to the students with our new class code. Another option that I forgot to tell students about yesterday is that EDpuzzle has a free iOS app that they may also use to access the material. (Android should be released later in the year.) If there are issues again tonight, please have your child email me so that we can resolve them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your patience and understanding though this adventure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for a great first day! I'm sorry that we started with PE and the Science Lab before even spending more than a few minutes in our class, but you all handled it well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember to check the whiteboard outside class tomorrow morning and that we're following the "3 Bs"". I'm looking forward to another great day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P.S. Let your parents and guardians know that Back to School Night is on Thursday and 3rd-5th grade goes from 7:00-8:00pm!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-60470443054455039322015-08-24T09:00:00.000-07:002015-08-24T16:27:24.509-07:00Welcome to Fifth Grade!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello New Fifth Graders!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am super excited to meet you (or get to know some of you better) tomorrow! We have a great adventure ahead of us, filled with many challenges and opportunities to learn and grow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tomorrow will be an odd schedule for our first day of school: you'll go straight to PE and then to the science lab before you even come to my classroom. If you are reading this before school starts, I would strongly suggest hanging your backpack on a hook outside my classroom before you go to the blacktop. After science, we will have a day closer to what you would expect the first day of school to be like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This will be a great year together! See you all tomorrow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We talked about props and costumes in class today. Please do not send in any toy weapons. Do not feel the need to purchase any costumes or props. I showed the students different ideas that they can make with things that are already at home or in the classroom. I would prefer that they are creative with their costumes than have them buy something expensive that will be worn two or three times. (The same costumes can be worn for Colonial Day and the state musical in the future.)</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-22367928682745023522013-11-13T21:37:00.002-08:002013-11-13T21:37:36.397-08:00New TrimesterHi Guys!<br />
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I have not been very good at posting messages on here, have I? The most important information is emailed out or sent home on a flier. I will try to be more diligent about posting on here, too.<br />
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Welcome to the first official day of the second semester! Just think, we are 1/3 of the way through the school year. Hasn't it flown by? I hope you take the opportunity to think over the first semester and consider all the hard work you have put in. There is no doubt in my mind that we have all had some challenges, but also many successes. Remember, through challenges are some of our greatest learning experiences. Also keep in mind that the second trimester is a great time to make changes if there is an area you want to improve and I am here to help you!<br />
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You have all shown me that you can be responsible and have earned the privilege of BYOD. My goal is to have the contract posted under links on Thursday morning. I will also have copies available in class if you need one. Remember that this is optional; I do have two Chromebooks for us to share in class and hope to be getting more.<br />
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Also, on a different note, remember that book orders are due on Friday - in person or online - if you want to purchase any books.<br />
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I'm looking forward to an even greater trimester with you all!<br />
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(Parents: I'm also organizing materials for book clubs, hoping to start them in January. If you are interested in helping out please let me know. It not definite yet, but I'm leaning toward having them on Thursday afternoons at the end of the day. More information will come as we get closer.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-29428427849731811702013-09-28T17:59:00.001-07:002013-09-28T17:59:23.638-07:00Field Trip Monday!Hey All!<br />
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I would say not to forget the field trip on Monday, but I don't think you'll forget. However, please do remember to wear close-toed shoes and layers, including long pants. Weather will not end our trip and I do not want you to be cold and unhappy throughout the trip. Also remember your lunch, with name written on it, and that you may not bring any electronic devices. If your parents want updates, incase there is bad traffic or other issues, they can subscribe to Remind101. The instructions are below. You can subscribe, too, but get their permission first.<br />
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Wednesday we are working with buddies and painting. If you'd like to bring in an old shirt or a smock of some sort please feel free. I can store them in class for the year if you'd like.<br />
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Don't forget to have your parents sign your progress reports!<br />
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Come ready for a great trip Monday! See ya then!<br />
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Remember that I will be in meetings all day tomorrow and we will have a sub. I don't anticipate any issues, but remember that you are an example for the other classes. Let's maintain our reputation for being respectful students in the hallways and for all of our teachers.<br />
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Make sure that you review science chapter one and complete the study guide so that we can answer any questions on Tuesday before our test on Wednesday. Also, remember that Tuesday is picture day.<br />
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When you are in the computer lab, all of your instructions for the day are on the same document as last week. If you deleted it from your drive, ask someone to share it with you.<br />
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If you are interested in practicing your songs at home, especially song leaders, here are the lyrics. <a href="http://www.maritime.org/pdf/Life-on-the-Barbary-Coast-Supplemental-Info.pdf">Click Here</a> John Kanaka starts on page 22 and we will look at one or two others during this week. Below is one version of the song if you'd like to listen to the melody at home, but remember that our words and chorus melody are slightly different.<br />
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I'm looking forward to another great week! See you all Tuesday!<br />
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I have a few new things to tell you about and a couple of reminders.<br />
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First, please try to memorize your email address and password as quickly as possible so we do not need to waste time in class figuring out how to login to GoogleDocs. I am excited that we are able to use this. Parents, if you have any concerns about the email, please let me know. Do know that it is a restricted email address so that it can only exchange messages with people within our domain.<br />
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Second, I was able to set up each of you with an online copy of the math book. (It <i>finally</i> worked!) Your username and password instructions have been emailed to your school email account. I do not know how much we will be using it for homework, but it is a great resource if you have questions or want to review the material.<br />
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I have looked over the math tests, and want to look over it again before returning it. My goal is to return it to you probably Tuesday so that you can do corrections (I'll give you instructions and details of what I'm looking for) and we can learn from any mistakes.<br />
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In your Friday folders you should have found a permission slip for our field trip and an emergency form. Our class is going on Monday the 30th, just over two weeks away. I need <i>both</i> forms returned for students to be able to participate in the field trip. Parents, if you are interested in chaperoning it, please let me know! You will need to have been approved by the district to volunteer before the trip. <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwHwc8KJHwe-YnQ2UjBKWUlTb3c/edit?usp=sharing">Click here for a description of chaperon (Tall Sailor) duties.</a><br />
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Thank you to all the parent volunteers. I am working on putting together a schedule of who is willing to help and when they come in. If you have any schedule changes or have not told me that you'd like to help in the class, please let me know!<br />
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Also, I have added a calendar to the side of the blog so you can know what is coming up for us. If you have a Google account, you should be able to add the calendar to your Google calendar by clicking on the + button on the bottom right. Have you tried following the website so you can receive updates by email? (I won't see your email address.)<br />
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Have a great weekend! If you have any questions feel free to let me know!<br />
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Mr. FunkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-22725523225765511232013-09-07T19:15:00.001-07:002013-09-07T19:15:57.258-07:00Pictures and BandHi All -<br />
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I'm sorry to have two posts this weekend. (Feel free to read the earlier one below or <a href="http://mrfunksclass.blogspot.com/2013/09/this-weekend.html">click here.</a>) First, it is my goal to upload pictures that some of you have taken to our album, so check the link over the weekend if you'd like to see them. Second, I received an email from Mr. Borris about band and strings. That email is below and I emailed it to the parents that I have email addresses for. If you did not receive an email, please sign up at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/funkps">tinyurl.com/funkps</a> or send me the parent homework (or both!).<br />
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This is an email from Jason Borris and Martie Muldoon, the band and strings teachers at all of the elementary schools in Pleasanton. After visiting each school this week, we are very excited to begin band and strings this year. We would like to see all of the interested students this coming week, (9/9 - 9/13) with no instruments. After we have assigned instruments, we will start with instruments the following week. (9/16-9-20)</div>
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Band: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pleasantonusd.net/pleasanton-beginning-band/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/<wbr></wbr>pleasantonusd.net/pleasanton-<wbr></wbr>beginning-band/</a><br /></div>
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If these links do not work, you can copy and paste them into your browser. Additionally, I have attached a word doc with more information about band and strings. If you sign up electronically, there is no need to fill out the paper form.</div>
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--<br />Jason Borris<br /><br />Elementary Beginning Band Teacher, Fairlands Elementary School Music Teacher, 6th Grade Band Teacher Harvest Park, Pleasanton Driving Expert<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;">Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.<br /><i>-- Ludwig van Beethoven"</i></span></div>
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</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285848612863856264.post-59279073755436760372013-09-06T15:52:00.000-07:002013-09-06T15:52:00.779-07:00This WeekendHi All,<br />
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Can you believe that we have made it through two weeks already? It has been a blast working with you all!<br />
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There is no real homework this weekend. Before the football games on Sunday it would be good if you highlight what teams you think are going to win for Quarterback Club, but know that you are not required to watch the games. I will post the scores in class on Monday for our math practice.<br />
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We will also have the math test on Monday - going over decimal place value and converting between fractions and decimals. If you'd like some more practice, feel free to try this website (<a href="http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_convert.html">Math Playground</a>) or this one (<a href="http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/FractionsToDecimals.htm">Sheppard Software</a>). Both programs should be free, so don't sign up to pay anything. Let me know if you have any questions!<br />
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As always, I think it would be great if you read over the weekend, but it is not required as part of the reading log.<br />
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Have a great weekend! I look forward to seeing you all Monday morning!<br />
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