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

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays; This week’s assignment is due Thursday.

Reading: Mrs. Richard’s first grade class came to visit today for reading buddies. The class read to their buddies, and the buddies read back to their fourth grade partner.

Writing: Today, students formed a question to research, and some started to collect research for our I-Search research project (click here for more details). We also brainstormed the steps to completing this project (scroll and zoom in/out to view the entire mind map:

Visit our research website and see what students are working on. This digital presentation is due Wednesday, April 29.

Math: We started working on estimating sums. Homework is to finish Journal pp. 120-120 if not completed in class.

Science: Three groups presented their Wicked Weather melodramas today.

Social Studies: Students completed a test over the first people of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 16
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 12

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

Notes:

• View a press release about our Novel Writing Project!
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kyle and Jacob

Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays.

Reading: The final group of students shared their monologue with the class, practicing volume, speed and tone.

Writing: Students were introduced to our next writing piece, the I-Search research project (click here for more details). This digital presentation is due Wednesday, April 29. Today, students were asked to write a question they would like to research, such as:

• What would it be like to be / live / do…?
• What would be different if…?
• What are the best / worst / strangest / biggest / most amazing / weirdest…?
• What are some reasons to…?
• What are some reasons not to…?

Math: Due to art, math was limited to completing a MiniQuiz.

Science: None due to students completing a writing prompt piece for the McGrath Writing Committee.

Social Studies: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test over the first people of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 9
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 11

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

Notes:

• View a press release about our Novel Writing Project!
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kyle and Jacob

Spelling: None today due to the half day schedule.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays.

Reading: Some additional students shared their monologue with the class, practicing volume, speed and tone.

Writing: Today was the final class work day for our Novel project. Most students printed their final novel. Students not finished were asked to finish this weekend and be ready to print on Monday. Congratulations to all students that achieved their word goals! What an accomplishment!

Our next project is an I-Search research project (click here for more details). We’ll start this next week.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: None today due to the half day schedule.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 3
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 10

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

Notes:

• Thanks! A special thanks to Lauren’s grandmother, who provided supplies and taught us how to make sugar eggs!
• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kyle and Jacob

Spelling: None today due to the half day schedule.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays.

Reading: Some students shared their monologue with the class, practicing volume, speed and tone.

Writing: We discussed varying sentence beginnings so that sentences don’t start the same way over and over, and so the reader doesn’t hear the same things over and over.

Students also continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: None today due to the half day schedule.

Social Studies: We graded the Three Fires people of Michigan review worksheet today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 0
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 9

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.

Spelling: None today due to a writing minilesson.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays.

Reading: None today due to the half day schedule.

Writing: We discussed varying sentence beginnings so that sentences don’t start the same way over and over, and so the reader doesn’t hear the same things over and over.

Students also continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: In health today, we viewed a movie called, Now I Can Tell You My Secret, about a boy who is inappropriately touched by a neighbor. We discussed that, when a student is touched in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable, they have a right to:

1. Say no;
2. Get away fast to a safe place;
3. Tell a trusted adult; or
4. Keep telling trusted adults if some don’t believe you.

Here is an overview and discussion guide for the movie. Here is another guide called, Keep Them Safe (PDF), with plenty of child safety tips.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 0
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 8

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.