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Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 27-29 were due today.

Reading: None today due to an assembly.

Writing: Today was a publishing day in Writer’s Workshop, and a piece of writing was due into portfolios.

We will continue to work on personal narratives for the next piece of writing, due November 7. This will be the final writing grade of the first marking period.

Math: Students practice math skills today. They also completed a MiniQuiz about place value and names of numbers.Science: None today due to an assembly.

Social Studies: Today was a MiniQuiz over the Northeast and Southeast regions.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4
• Hours with no orange magnets (record: 29): 55

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

Notes:

• Schedule your Fall Parent Teacher Conference online now and avoid work and family schedule conflicts.
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Sign up for daily email updates, including activities, homework and important information.

Spelling: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 27-29 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to the MEAP Reading test.

Writing: None today due to the MEAP Reading test.

A personal narrative piece of writing is due into portfolios Friday, October 17.

Math: None today due to the MEAP Reading test.

Science: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Social Studies: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
• Hours with no orange magnets (record: 29): 49
  

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

Notes:

• Schedule your Fall Parent Teacher Conference online now and avoid work and family schedule conflicts.
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Sign up for daily email updates, including activities, homework and important information.

Spelling: Students were asked to make their Words to Learn list today. This is a list of words they missed on the last spelling test, and words they can study for the next time. This is their customized spelling list to practice. Some students are not finished with correcting the words, highlighting the words in their writer’s folder, or writing sentences for the homophones, and can finish at lunch.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 27-29 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was the first reading day of the new Literature Circles cycle. Some groups worked on visualizing and inferring as reading strategies.

Students also received their STAR reading level from our October STAR test. The class average reading level grew from 4.40 to 4.61, over two months of growth in one month!

Writing: Students started revising conferences today. They were also introduced to editing conferences and started those. Unfinished conferences can be completed at home.

A personal narrative piece of writing is due into portfolios Friday, October 17.

Math: We reviewed place value today.

Science: None today due to extra time with Writer’s Workshop.

Social Studies: None today due to library.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1
• Hours with no orange magnets (record: 29): 41
  

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

Notes:

• Schedule your Fall Parent Teacher Conference online now and avoid work and family schedule conflicts.
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Sign up for daily email updates, including activities, homework and important information.

Spelling: None today due to the Math MEAP test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 27-29 are due Friday.

Reading: Students received their new Literature Circles books today:

• Tooter Pepperday
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Keeper of the Doves
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
• Tuck Everlasting

Writing: Students looked at the grade from their previously submitted piece of writing. We also talked about how a piece of writing is more interesting if the topic is written as a story, rather than a list of facts. For example, instead of writing “All About Basketball,” it would be more interesting to write a story about a time when someone played basketball.

The next piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due October 17. Students have been informed that writing pieces less than two pages in length (if handwritten) will probably not have enough information to help the reader understand the piece clearly.

Math: We reviewed place value today. Homework is to complete Journal pp. 32-33.

Science: None today due to the Math MEAP test.

Social Studies: None today due to the Math MEAP test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10):1
• Hours with no orange magnets (record: 29): 33* A new record!
  

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

Notes:

• Schedule your Fall Parent Teacher Conference online now and avoid work and family schedule conflicts.
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Sign up for daily email updates, including activities, homework and important information.

Spelling: Today was the Unit 2 spelling and skill test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 27-29 are due Friday.

Reading: Students previewed new Literature Circles books today.

Writing: We talked about how to focus on just the best part of a story: Christmas break (two weeks) > New Year’s Eve (one day) > watching a movie (two hours) > the end of the movie and the ball dropping (20 minutes). By having a narrow focus, the point of the story becomes clear to the reader, and the writer can spend their time writing about just the best, most important parts. With a piece of writing due this Friday, homework is to make sure that there are at least four double-spaced pages for each student’s rough draft.

Math: We had absolutely no time for math today due to some pretty ridiculous choices by a large majority of the class, who chose to be lackadaisical and lethargic in thinking through our learning today. As a result, homework is to complete Journal pp. 29-30.  

Science: Today was a science test over sound and energy.

Social Studies: We learned that the Northeast is famous for the Iroquois Indians, who had a cooperative government, and the American Revolution.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10):1
• Hours with no orange magnets (record: 29): 27

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

Notes:

• Schedule your Fall Parent Teacher Conference online now and avoid work and family schedule conflicts.
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Sign up for daily email updates, including activities, homework and important information.