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Spelling: We learned that adding the letter h to other consonants makes a new sound in the patterns, sh, th, wh, ph, ch.

Cursive: Cursive pages 38-40 are available and due Friday. This is the final week for the lowercase letter review. Check and see how your student is doing with lowercase cursive letters.

Reading: None today due to the half day schedule.

Writing: None today due to the half day schedule. The next piece of writing is due November 28.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: Students made electricity minibooks and we started reading about circuits.

Social Studies: We learned about how a bill is made into a law and reviewed the three branches of government.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0

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

Notes:

• Half days for the rest of the week, 12:27 pm dismissal.
• The Candle fundraiser has started and continues through November 26. This is our biggest fundraiser for our spring Mackinac trip.
• 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: thanks to responsible and generous families, we have a juice backlog, so no juice volunteers needed for a few weeks!

Spelling: None due to the half-day schedule.

Cursive: Cursive pages 38-40 are available and due Friday. This is the final week for the lowercase letter review. Check and see how your student is doing with lowercase cursive letters.

Reading: Today was a Literature Circles discussion day. Some groups worked on making connections.

Writing: Today was a drafting day for students. The next piece of writing is due November 28.

Math: Students peer reviewed their draft bar graphs and started revising for a final copy. Homework is to finish their bar graph final copy.

Science: None due to the half-day schedule.

Social Studies: None due to the half-day schedule.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0

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

Notes:

• Half days for the rest of the week, 12:27 pm dismissal.
• The Candle fundraiser has started and continues through November 26. This is our biggest fundraiser for our spring Mackinac trip.
• Fall Conferences are this week, November 13-15. Check your conference time here.
• 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: thanks to responsible and generous families, we have a juice backlog, so no juice volunteers needed for a few weeks!

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Spelling: We identified words that fit patterns for the /long e/ sound: e, ee, ea, y

Cursive: Cursive pages 38-40 are available and due Friday. This is the final week for the lowercase letter review. Check and see how your student is doing with lowercase cursive letters.

Reading: Today was a Literature Circles reading day. Some groups worked on making inferences and synthesizing (combining information together to make a new conclusion or idea).

Writing: Students looked at their last portfolio grade and some students shared their writing. Today was also a drafting day for students. The next piece of writing is due November 28.

Math: Students surveyed the class about a question, made a tally chart, and started making a bar graph of the data. Homework is to finish a rough draft of the bar graph.

Science: We reviewed the Stop and Go experiment about conductors and insulators and discovered that most conductors are metals; however, we did see in class that salt water (and therefore, humans!) is a conductor.

Social Studies: We learned about government services and about the branches of government: legislative (laws), executive (make sure people follow the laws), and judicial (make sure the laws are fair).

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0

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

Notes:

• Half days for the rest of the week, 12:27 pm dismissal.
• The Candle fundraiser has started and continues through November 26. This is our biggest fundraiser for our spring Mackinac trip.
• Fall Conferences are this week, November 13-15. Check your conference time here.
• 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: thanks to responsible and generous families, we have a juice backlog, so no juice volunteers needed for a few weeks!

Spelling: We identified patterns for the /long e/ sound today: e, ee, ea, y

Cursive: Cursive pages 38-40 are available and due Friday. This is the final week for the lowercase letter review. Check and see how your student is doing with lowercase cursive letters.

Reading: Today was a Literature Circles discussion day.

Writing: None due to technology. Students worked on adding text to their PowerPoint inspirational poster project.

The next piece of writing is due November 28.

Math: We practiced making bar graphs today. Homework is to come up with a question to survey the class about. We’ll use the survey results to make a bar graph.

Science: We completed the Stop and Go experiment about conductors and insulators.  Homework is to finish the analyze and conclude questions.

Social Studies: We finished up our government minibooks and started learning about the state government, including some of the services it provides and how it is funded with tax dollars.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• The Candle fundraiser has started and continues through November 26. This is our biggest fundraiser for our spring Mackinac trip.
• Fall Conferences are this week, November 13-15. Check your conference time here.
• 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: thanks to responsible and generous families, we have a juice backlog, so no juice volunteers needed for a few weeks!