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Spelling: None today due to the MEAP English Language Arts test.

Cursive: None this week due to the MEAP test.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. We discussed the “Passage Picker” job using Esperanza Rising.

Writing: Today was a work day in Writer’s Workshop. Students finalized their drafts, revised or had conferences with a partner. The next piece of writing, a personal memory or story, is due on October 12. Students should be revising by now in order to finish on time.

Math: None today due to art.

Science: None today due to the MEAP test.

Social Studies: None due to the MEAP test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 3
• Red magnets: 0

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

Notes:

• Fundraiser orders are due this Monday, October 15.
• We’ll be taking the MEAP test this week and next, so plenty of sleep and a good breakfast will be two ingredients for test success!
• View grades, assignments and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: William and Katie

Spelling: None today due to the MEAP English Language Arts test.

Cursive: None this week due to the MEAP test.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. We practiced the “Passage Picker” job using Esperanza Rising.

Writing: None today due to technology. In technology, students took a STAR reading test, completed their Web Licenses, and got their mrhowd.com email address.

The next piece of writing, a personal memory or story, is due on October 12.

Math: Today we practiced counting faces, straight edges and vertices of three-dimensional figures.

Science: None today due to the MEAP test.

Social Studies: None due to the MEAP test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0

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

Notes:

• We’ll be taking the MEAP test this week and next, so plenty of sleep and a good breakfast will be two ingredients for test success!
• View grades, assignments and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: William and Katie

Spelling: Students made their Words to Learn list by correcting words they missed on yesterday’s spelling test. Their Words to Learn list is their spelling list to study for the next test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 23-25 were reviewed today.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. We shared our illustrations from Esperanza Rising.

Writing: Today was a work day; students continued working on their rough draft. The next piece of writing, a personal memory or story, is due on October 12.

Math: Today was a MiniQuiz and Math Skills. We also learned the names of three-dimensional figures, including cone, pyramid, cylinder, sphere, cube and various prisms. Homework is to finish the 3-D figures worksheet.

Science: We reviewed the Getting Directions experiment and learned that a compass is really just a magnet that is allowed to swing freely so it can point in a north-south direction.

Social Studies: None on Fridays.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: William and Katie

Spelling: Today was the Unit 1 spelling and skill test. A Words to Learn list will come home tomorrow. The spelling worksheets will also due tomorrow.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 23-25 are available and due tomorrow.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. We practiced visualizing by drawing illustrations from Esperanza Rising.

Writing: We talked about narrowing down a topic by finding the most interesting part to focus on. The next piece of writing, a personal memory or story, is due on October 12.

Math: None today due to Science Inquiry.

Science Inquiry: We practiced writing testable questions, questions that we could test with a science experiment.

Social Studies: We started learning about Autumn colors of the Northeast.

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:

• View grades, assignments and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Terence and Christian

Spelling: Today we reviewed long and short vowel sounds. Students played a game to sort words into long and short vowels. This will be the skill test for tomorrow. We have been stressing that short vowel sounds usually only have one vowel, and long vowel sounds usually have two vowels (for example, hop is short, hope is long). Students have the Unit 1 spelling worksheets (download here), which will be due tomorrow at the time of the spelling test. Find more information, including spelling lists, by clicking on the Spelling link.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 23-25 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. We discussed the connections we made yesterday using Esperanza Rising.

Writing: We practiced “freewriting,” which is a way to collect specific details quickly. The students selected a topic and wrote everything they could remember about it in three minutes, without stopping. The key is to keep writing and not stop. After three minutes, they looked back and circled parts they might want to use in their story.

The next piece of writing, a personal memory or story, is due on October 12.

Math: We reviewed polygon rules and names and played math pictionary as a review game. Homework is to complete the Hidden Polygons worksheet about finding various polygons.

Science: We completed the Getting Directions experiment today about making a compass. Homework is to complete the experiment activity record, including the analyze and conclude questions.

Social Studies: We learned about how factories were built in the Northeast by mountains so waterfalls could be used to power the machines in the factories. Homework is to complete the WordSort activity started last week.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 7
• 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:

• View grades, assignments and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Terence and Christian