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Spelling: Today students wrote sentences for homophone pairs and their partners tried to indentify which homophone fit in the sentences.  

Cursive: Cursive worksheets pp. 33-35 were reviewed today.

Reading: Students previewed and voted for the following new Literature Circles books:

• Mummies in the Morning, by Mary Pope Osborne
• Keeper of the Doves, by Betsy Byars
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Barbara Robinson
• The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
• A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck

Writing: Today’s minilesson was how to find the correct spelling of a word (look it up, ask someone, look around the room, look on the 500 Core Word list, write it different ways). Students also continued to prewrite and should be ready to start drafting on Monday. The next piece of writing is due December 1.

Math: Students took part in Math Skills today, and completed a MiniQuiz over bar graphs and addition.

Science Inquiry: Students explored the following inquiry stations:

• Flight (airplanes and parachutes)
• Weight (with a digital scale)
• Electricity (circuits)
• Ramps and rollers (using the donated cardboard tubes!)
• Magnets

This open exploration is preparing students for when they will explore topics of interest, design experiments and make discoveries.

Veteran’s Day Assembly: We also had an assembly today for Veteran’s Day. Students received a flag, learned about the Color Guard, learned how the flag is folded and what the folds mean, and asked questions of the veterans.

Behavior Update:

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Juice Volunteers for Friday, December 1: Shawn and Alison. Click here for a full list of juice volunteers. 
• Book orders are due on Friday, November 17. Visit the Online Book Order page to order by credit card online.  
• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!

Spelling: Today we reviewed the “Stretch It” page of the Unit 3 spelling worksheets.

Cursive: Cursive worksheets pp. 33-35 were made available and are due on Friday.

Reading: Today was the last Literature Circles project work day for groups. Projects will be presented on Wednesday.

Writing: None today due to technology. The next piece of writing will be due December 1.

Math: We made a bar graph of student head sizes and calculated the median head size. Homework is to finish journal pp. 43-45.

Science: We reviewed the Path Finders experiment from Thursday. Homework is to complete the “Repair Manual” worksheet.

Social Studies: Students completed a test over our study of US Regions.

Behavior Update:

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• No school tomorrow due to election day. 
• Juice Volunteers for Friday, November 10: McKenna and Noah. Click here for a full list of juice volunteers. 
• Appointments are now being made for fall conferences, November 14-16. A sign-up sheet is located at the office windows.
• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!

Spelling: Today students completed a review spelling quiz.

Cursive: Cursive worksheets pp. 30-32 were due to be completed by today.

Reading: None today due to an anti-bullying assembly. Students will share, on Wednesday, the Literature Circles projects they are currently working on. We also read our paper (Time for Kids) and had our coffee (juice). Click here for a list of juice volunteers.

Writing: We discussed today about how using interesting, choice adjectives gives the reader a better picture of the writing. A piece of writing was due into portfolios today. Writing not turned in today will be penalized one grade for being late.

Math: Students completed a MiniQuiz today over minimum, maximum, range, mode, median and addition of multi-digit numbers. We also had Math Skills.

Science Inquiry: We completed an activity called, “Science and Questions,” in which we brainstormed areas of science students learned about in the past, and thought of tests that could be done by students in the different topics.

Behavior Update:

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Juice Volunteers for Friday, November 10: McKenna and Noah. Click here for a full list of juice volunteers. 
• Appointments are now being made for fall conferences, November 14-16. A sign-up sheet is located at the office windows.
• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!