Class activities for Tuesday, December 12

Spelling: None today. Students are working on the unit 5 spelling worksheets. Visit the spelling page to download a copy.

Cursive: Cursive worksheets pp. 48-50 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.    

Writing: We learned today that every story has two parts: an inner story (the character’s thoughts and feelings) and an outer story (the plot and action). Students’ writing will be more interesting when both the inner and outer story are developed. The next piece of writing, some type of narrative (personal or fiction), is due December 22.

Math: We reviewed true and false number sentences, and then practiced using parentheses in number sentences. Students learned that the parentheses tell which part of the number sentence to start with first, and that changing the location of the parentheses changes the answer of the number sentence: (10/2)+3=5 versus 10/(2+3)=2. Homework is to finish journal pp. 68-69.

Science: Students worked on designing a poster about staying safe with electricity (avoid electrical equipment, keep cords away from water, don’t use damanged cords, don’t overload circuits, etc.). Homework is to finish the poster.

Social Studies: We played a game about Michigan’s natural resources: soil (growing blueberries, potatoes, beans, soybeans, cherries), copper, iron, timber and water.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellows: 3 magnets
  • Oranges: 2 magnets
  • Reds: 0 magnets

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

  • Juice Volunteers for Friday, December 8: Kori and Abbey. Click here for a full list of juice volunteers.
  • Grand Blanc Lanes field trip coming soon! Click here for details.
  • We are looking for donations of medium and short cardboard tubes (have plenty of short ones, thanks!) 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!

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2 Responses to “Class activities for Tuesday, December 12”

  1. bailey h Says:

    you did good in the sing a long

  2. Christian Howd Says:

    Thanks, Bailey!

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