Welcome to Our Classroom!
Mrs. Becker and Mrs. Culley are 5th grade teachers at Flagview Intermediate School.
Flag View telephone number: 1-775-738-7236
Mrs. Becker e-mail: dbecker@ecsdnv.net Math, English, Reading, and Social Studies I have been a teacher for 14 years. I was born and raised in Elko. I have two children. My son Jesse lives in Reno and my daughter Rachel is a student at the University of Montana in Missoula. |
Mrs. Culley e-mail: dculley@ecsdnv.net Science, English, Reading, and Social Studies
I have been a teacher for 12 years. I have a son Seth who is in 5th grade, and a son Chance who is 4 years old. I love to collect m&ms and I am a huge fan of Notre Dame football. |
Here is a list of supplies you are going to need:
- Writer's notebook
- Reading notebook
- Math notebook
- Science notebook
- scissors
- colored pencils (Twistables are great!)
- one bottle of glue or a glue stick
Math Problem of the week (Correct answers turned in by Friday will earn you a treat from Mrs. Becker.)
Sept 26, 2011
Alex's cookie recipe has four secret ingredients. Randall, Wendy, Gerald, and Sandy each know one of the four ingredients. The decide to call each other to exchange what they know about the secret ingredients. After each call, both people know whatever ingredients either of them knew before the call.
What is the fewest number of calls it will take for all of them to know all four secret ingredients? Suggest who talks to whom for each call.
Hot Topics from Brains.org
HOT TOPIC # 1: Your ability to find your way around your house and your world is
a function of your hippocampus. That's the brain area that makes our spatial maps.
Ever wonder how these are actually made? As you move around, muscle movements
fire as a function of both your speed and direction. These muscle movements
fire theta cells in the lower brain. These rapidly and rhythmically firing cells create a
sort of oscillator. Your brain looks for places the oscillators overlap and a "place neuron"
fires every time that overlap occurs. These place neurons and neuron fields then
become our internal maps of the world. Fear and stress can alter our hippocampal
code for space and distort learning. Hugh Blair, PhD. University of California – Los Angles.
"Spacial Memory for Fear and Reward: Scary Places: Fear, Stress and the Hippocampal
Code for Space". Presented August 13, 2010. APA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
HOT TOPIC #2: Sleep is biological creativity. The difference in how the brain handles
learned information before and after sleep is the difference between knowledge and
wisdom. Learning involves 3 steps for memory formation – 1. encoding 2. consolidation
and integration 3. recall. Sleep is vital for the 2nd stage. The last 2 hours of our sleep
is most critical for consolidation and yet our sleep is often cut short. Sleep physically
changes the geography of memories. After sleep the location in the brain of our
learning has actually moved.
Matthew Walker, PhD. UC Berkeley. "To sleep, Perchance to Remodel the Brain and
Improve Memory." August 13, 2010 APA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA
You can watch things happen, or you can make things happen.
