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Spelling: None today due to a math MiniQuiz about rays, lines and line segments. Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-20 are available and due Friday.

Reading: None today due to taking extra time for math. The class is struggling right now with using time wisely, and in this case, we had to repeat a task numerous times because the class wasn’t using math thinking to answer math questions.

Writing: Students finished their piece of writing about honesty and shared it with a neighbor. We then started planning another piece of writing about caring for the earth. Students started this by making a list of possible stories to write about.

Students received a manila folder today. This is their Writer’s Portfolio. Students were asked to decorate the portfolio with pictures, magazine clippings, stickers, drawings, anything that can lay flat. Homework is to have the portfolios decorated and returned on Monday.

Math: We used straws and twist ties to make angles, triangles and various quadrangles. The class struggled during this time to connect math thinking with math answers. The students would do the math, but then not connect the math results to a math answer, so their answer would be wrong. This was the case with squares and rectangles. We learned that a rectangle has four sides and four right angles. When asked if a square is a rectangle, the class repeatedly said no, even when they said a square has four sides and four right angles! This is where the failure to connect math thinking to math answers came in. Homework is to complete Journal p. 6 and to also write an explanation to prove why a square is a rectangle (this because of the problem in class).

Science: None today due to library. We are testing our Mentos and Diet Coke experiments tomorrow; thank you to volunteered to bring in supplies to help with the experiment.

Social Studies: We learned about the long growing season of the Southeast. Homework is to finish the Fact or Fiction paper, questions 1-4.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Here is the school supply list. I have dry erase markers for $0.25 and poly envelopes for $0.50.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Emily and Halie

Spelling: We reviewed the long o sound by finding antonyms (opposite) and synonyms (similar) for various words. Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-20 are available and due Friday.

Reading: We practiced making connections by reading two stories and finding how they were alike.

Writing: Students practiced writing using a prompt about honesty. We will also write another piece this week using a prompt, and students will choose which piece they would like to turn in for a grade.

Math: We reviewed rays, lines and line segments. Homework is to complete Math Boxes 1.3.

Science: Students completed a science experiment to test how the ends of a magnet interact with each other. Homework is to complete the A Magnet’s Ends activity record, including the analyze and conclude questions.

Social Studies: We talked about the WordSplash homework assignment, then started learning about the long growing season of the Southeast.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: 5 magnets
• Oranges: 1 magnet
• Reds: 1 magnet

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Here is the school supply list. I have dry erase markers for $0.25 and poly envelopes for $0.50.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Emily and Halie

Spelling: We talked about common spelling patterns for the long o sound: ow, oa, o, o-consonant-e, -old. Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-20 were made available today and are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to a concert by Peaceful Authority, a group of Flint police officers who sang about character education.

Writing: We practiced writing about honesty today using a prompt and will finish tomorrow.

Math: We learned about rays and practiced naming and drawing them. Homework is to complete Math Boxes 1.2.

Science: We talked about what is attracted to magnets and discovered that magnets are attracted to certain kinds of metals.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: 4 magnets
• Oranges: 0 magnets
• Reds: 0 magnets

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Here is the school supply list. I have dry erase markers for $0.25 and poly envelopes for $0.50.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Emily and Halie

Spelling: We used spelling time today to learn how to report the weather to our class using our wireless weather station.

Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: None today.

Reading: We practiced asking the “W” questions as we read: who, what, when, where, and why.

Writing: None today due to Constitution Day. We remembered how important the Constitution is by learning and singing the Preamble to the Constitution:

We the people
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution
For the United States of America.

Here’s the song:

We also watched a movie that showed what America would be like without the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Click here to watch the movie.

Math: None due to Constitution Day activities.

Science: We completed an experiment to determine what will be attracted to a magnet. Homework is to finish the analyze and conclude questions of the experiment worksheet.

Social Studies: We finished reading about the Mississippi River, water and swamps of the Southeast. Homework is to finish up the Southeast Water WordSplash that we started last week.

Behavior Update:

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

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Here is the school supply list. I have dry erase markers for $0.25 and poly envelopes for $0.50.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Emily and Halie

Spelling: Today we talked about homographs, words that are spelled the same but pronounce differently (wind, does, use) and homophones, words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently (their and there, it’s and its).  Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 14-17 were due today.

Reading: We practiced asking questions as we read, and remembered that rereading helps us find information that we may have forgotten.

Writing: We again practiced making lists of writing topics and then learned to “stretch out” the lists by picking one topic from the list and writing everything we can remember about the topic.

Math: We played a game as a beginning-of-the-year math review.

Science: We watched a video showing geyers created with Mentos and Diet Coke. This got us thinking about ways to change the experiment to use different kids of liquids and different kinds of candies. Several students volunteered to bring in materials for us to test the Mentos and Diet Coke geyers next Friday.

Social Studies: None on Fridays.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: 1 magnet
• Oranges: 1 magnet
• Reds: 0 magnets

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Students volunteered this week to bring juice for our “Paper and Coffee” Fridays. The class calendar in the sidebar shows upcoming juice volunteers. A paper was also sent home today with the schedule.
• Here is the school supply list. I have dry erase markers for $0.25 and poly envelopes for $0.50.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.