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Spelling: We reviewed common homophones today: it’s/its, your/you’re, there/their/they’re, two/to/too.

The McGrath Spelling Bee is on February 16. Here are some spelling bee resources to get ready or have your own bee at home!

• Spelling Bee practice lists and more
• Interactives Spelling Bee (spelling words in a story)
• Spelling Bee the Game (just like a real spelling bee!)
• BigIQKids.com Online Spelling Bee (play against other players)
• VisualThesaurus Spelling Bee (hard words!)

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on determining importance and inferring as reading strategies.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Monday, February 14. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be finalizing their story at this time.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: None on Fridays.

Science: Students completed a ball-tossing experiment to test if it is easier to catch with one or two hands.

Social Studies: None today. We did watch some live coverage of the celebration in Egypt of their president resigning after two weeks of protests.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is Monday, February 14 from 10:00-12:30 pm. See the volunteer list here if you would like to help or attend.
• Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
• Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was our class spelling bee. Congratulations to Joel and Indira for winning our class be and representing our class at the McGrath Spelling Bee on February 16. Here are some spelling bee resources to get ready or have your own bee at home!

• Spelling Bee practice lists and more
• Interactives Spelling Bee (spelling words in a story)
• Spelling Bee the Game (just like a real spelling bee!)
• BigIQKids.com Online Spelling Bee (play against other players)
• VisualThesaurus Spelling Bee (hard words!)

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

Reading: None today due to our class spelling bee.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Monday, February 14. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be drafting, revising or editing at this time.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We continued to review “fraction of” problems. Students learned a new method of solving “fraction of” problems by multiplying fractions. See the video below for an example. Homework is to finish StudyLink 7.1.

Science: We started a new experiment to see how scientists use a range of data to explain what is normal in a population.

Social Studies: We started learning about the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is Monday, February 14 from 10:00-12:30 pm. See the volunteer list here if you would like to help or attend.
• Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
• Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today due to extra time with writing.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Monday, February 14. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be drafting at this time.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We started a review of fractions, including mixed numbers, improper fractions and “fractions of” problems. Homework is to finish Journal pp. 122-123.

Science: None today due to library.

Social Studies: None today due to a guest lesson about physical education and nutrition.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is Monday, February 14 from 10:00-12:30 pm. See the volunteer list here if you would like to help or attend.
• Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
• Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today due to extra time with writing.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on synthesizing and summarizing as a reading strategy.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Monday, February 14. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be drafting at this time.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: Students finished working on a division test today.

Science: We reviewed the analysis about how scientists study people using qualitative and quantitative data.

Social Studies: None today due to extra time with writing.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is Monday, February 14 from 10:00-12:30 pm. See the volunteer list here if you would like to help or attend.
• Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
• Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We talked about how repeating words, phrases or lines helps to add interest and organization to a piece of writing.

Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Friday, February 11. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be drafting at this time.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: Students started working on a division test today.

Science: We finished reading about how scientists study people using qualitative and quantitative data. Homework is to finish the analysis on pp. 35-36.

Social Studies: We started talking about how advertisements are made to try to attract people to think a certain way or buy a certain product. Students will later make advertisements to learn about some of the early New England colonies. Homework is to finish Preview p. 39.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
• Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.