January 10th, 2012
Class activities for Tuesday, January 10
Spelling: None today due to extra time for writing.
Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.
Reading: Students turned in their previous Literature Circles books and will receive new magazines soon.
Writing: We talked about explaining new characters with visual details, actions, background information and details about who they are.
The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Tuesday, January 17 (new date). Students should be editing at this time.
Math: None today due to an assembly from Coach Steve from the Detroit Pistons.
Science: We participated in a live webchat with a student engineer from Cornell University. He is working on a project called KickSat, which will launch several hundred palm-sized satellites into space. We were even mentioned in the webchat when one of our questions was answered! We will be learning about space after our unit on matter is finished.
Social Studies: We compared what happened to the gold mines of Rhyolite, Nevada to copper mines in Michigan.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4
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All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
