January 11th, 2012
Class activities for Wednesday, January 11
Spelling: We learned that most suffixes are just added on to the base word:
- runs
- teachable
- faster
- fastest
- quickly
- flying
Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.
Reading: Students received new magazines today to practice informational reading.
Writing: We talked writing a lively lead to start a piece of writing. One type of lively lead is to use a snapshot lead that shows what a character, place or scene looks like.
The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Tuesday, January 17 (new date). Students should be editing at this time.
Math: We practice subtracting today. Homework is to finish Journal P4-4.
Science: We the 3 Balloons experiment completed recently. We learned that solids have a specific shape and size, liquids have a changing shape but specific size, and gases have changing shapes and sizes.
Social Studies: None today due to our reading and math skills time.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- 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.
