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Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today, students chose a section of their Literature Circles book to read to the class as a monologue. Students practiced reading their monologue with good speed, tone and volume.

Writing: Students 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: Students continued to multiply with the distributive property: 54 x 25 = (50+4) x (20 + 5). Homework is to finish Journal p. 116 and StudyLink 5.2.

Science: Students worked on a melodrama about weather safety. The melodramas will be performed tomorrow.

Social Studies: We learned about the Huron Indians, who were famous for growing corn and trading with the French fur traders. Homework is to finish review  worksheet pp. 7 and 9.

Behavior Update:

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

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: Today students completed their Words to Learn list of missed spelling words.

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

Reading: Today, the final two Literature Circles groups presented projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: Students 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: Students learned how to multiply with the distributive property: 54 x 25 = (50+4) x (20 + 5).

Science: Students worked on a melodrama about weather safety.

Social Studies: We learned that men and women from the Three Fires people of Michigan were responsible for different jobs and tasks.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 19
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 6

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: Today was a spelling test and skill test over compound words.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays; today’s assignment will be due Monday due to the test.

Reading: Today, four Literature Circles groups presented projects to share their books with the class. The remaining projects will be presented on Monday.

Writing: Students 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 Read-a-Thon.

Science: None today due to the Read-a-Thon.

Social Studies: We took notes in our minibooks about the Three Fires people of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 8
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 12
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 5

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.

I’ve updated the Contact page with new ways to contact me.

As always, you can email me from this website. And you can call (810) 341-2112 to speak to me in person or leave a voicemail. But here are some new options:

• You can send a text message from your cell phone to (810) 341-2112. You could previously send a message from the website, but now you can text me from your phone.
• Your voicemail messages will get transcribed and sent to my phone, so I will receive them faster.

I can also send you a text message back. This is an option if you are near your cell phone more than your computer, or don’t have an email address at home.

Spelling: None today due to a writing minilesson. We will have a spelling test tomorrow. The skill test will assess compound words.

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

Reading: Today, Literature Circles groups continued to work on their projects to share their books with the class. Students will present their projects on Friday.

Writing: We discussed breaking text into paragraphs to make the writing more readable and organized for the reader. There are four reasons to start a new paragraph:

• a new idea
• a new time
• a new place
• a new speaker

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: We reviewed extended multiplication facts (2*3=6, so 20*3=60).

Science: We started a project to review weather safety today.

Social Studies: We learned about the beliefs and jobs of the Three Fires people of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 8
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 5
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 4

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: Emily and Matt
• Sign up for Spring Conferences here.