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February 14, 2010

Carlisle's Indibot Hotshots Awarded

 First Place

FLL Ohio State Championships

for Creative Presentation

Pictured at the top are the Indibot Hotshots, moments after receiving their 1st Place Trophy for Creative Presentation at the 2010 FLL Ohio State Championships, February 7th, at the Nutter Center. Only 17% of Ohio's FLL teams earned invitations to the state championships. Both of Carlisle's Hotshots teams qualified! 48 teams from across the state competed, shared ideas, and had a blast at the competition.
 

An advantage of having two teams is that more kids from our district can continue to participate, allowing older, experienced robotics teammates to fine tune their skills as they mentor their younger counterparts. The Smartbot Hotshots (blue shirts) were outstanding mentors for the Indibots (black shirts), a team of all first-year competitors. The teams practiced together, sharing ideas and supporting each other as one big team -- Gracious Professionalism -- a core FLL value! Congratulations to ALL our Hotshots on both teams for your research, creativity, hard work, and TEAMWORK!

You can see more photographs of the Indibots at the Dayton Daily News website. Go there...

Math

March "Mathness": Monday Tutoring. In March, I will begin "March Mathness" by providing math tutoring on Mondays for any of my 5th grade students who are interested and eligible. There is no charge for this tutoring. I ask that parents be prompt in picking up their child at 4:00. To be eligible for this tutoring:

1. The student must be in my 5th grade math class.

2. The student must continue to have 100% math homework completion.

3. The student must bring in a note from their parent that Monday.

4. The note is downloadable here, or if you would rather write it out, it must say, "My child _____ has permission to stay after school for tutoring with Mrs. Nettling on ___(day) ____(date) until 4:00. _____________(driver), whose phone number is ____________,  will come to the classroom and wait in the hallway to pick ______ up promptly at 4:00. During the tutoring time I can be reached at this phone number_________."

Math: Practice at Home. I want to thank you all so much for the support you are offering your children in math during this busy time. It is important that we all do whatever we can to pass along positive energy to our children, encourage their efforts, and promote good feelings about math. Our Funky Friday Math is important, and all students should strive to get a perfect score on each one. It is a great idea to encourage students to ask for help, look up their questions in their math reference book, show their work as the figure their answers, and check their work after they finish!

Math: Dividing Fractions. We have been practicing new fraction skills adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions. We have also been learning to divide fractions. Below is some helpful information.

Math: Volume and Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms. Other concepts we will begin practicing are measurement skills in figuring perimeter, area, and volume. While students have been introduced to these concepts in previous years, 5th grade instruction includes some new skills for them, such as showing their work by writing the equations, and finding surface area of 3-dimensional shapes.

Thanks for all you do to send your child to school ready to learn!

Mrs. Nettling