Archive for May, 2012

Class activities for Thursday, May 31

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Spelling: No new spelling activities for the remainder of the year.

Cursive: No new cursive assignments for the remainder of the year.

Reading: None today.

Writing: Students continued to work on the Find It, Decide It project to research a decision. Here is more about this project, due Friday, June 1.

Math: Students practiced working on geometry skills today. The class also completed an end-of-the-year math test for 4th grade.

Science: None today due to extra time with writing.

Social Studies: None today due to an assembly.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 0
  • Orange magnets: 1
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 6

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

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Class activities for Wednesday, May 30

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Spelling: Students completed a final spelling test today.

Cursive: No new cursive assignments for the remainder of the year.

Reading: None today.

Writing: Students are continuing to work on the Find It, Decide It project to research a decision. Here is more about this project, due Friday, June 1.

Math: Students practiced comparing and ordering decimals. Homework is to complete Journal P13-8.

Science: We reviewed our last science test about matter and energy.

Social Studies: We compared a looked at a fictional government to see if it was a republic, if it followed a constitution, and if it followed core democratic values.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 1
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 5

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

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Class activities for Tuesday, May 29

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No new cursive assignments for the remainder of the year.

Reading: None today due to the Snow White play.

Writing: Students worked on the Find It, Decide It project to research a decision. Here is more about this project, due Friday, June 1.

Math: Homework is to complete Journal pages P13-7 and R13-6.

Science: We learned that plants, animals and humans use energy and materials for these things:

  • growth
  • reproduction
  • movement
  • waste
  • maintenance and repair

Social Studies: We talked more about how a republic votes for representatives, a constitution is a plan for government, and that even the government should follow the laws.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 2
  • Orange magnets: 2
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4

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

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Class activities for Friday, May 25

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No new cursive assignments for the remainder of the year.

Reading: None today.

Writing: Students worked on the Find It, Decide It project to research a decision. Here is more about this project, due Friday, June 1.

Math: Students practiced math skills using Khan Academy.

Science: We learned that plants and animals both need these things:

  • water
  • heat
  • air

Plants also need light to live.

Social Studies: We talked about how a republic votes for representatives, a constitution is a plan for government, and that even the government should follow the laws.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 6
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 43

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

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Class activities for Thursday, May 24

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No new cursive assignments for the remainder of the year.

Reading: We read our shared reading book, Esperanza Rising.

Writing: Students worked on the Find It, Decide It project to research a decision. Here is more about this project, due Friday, June 1.

Math: Students practiced changing fractions into decimals. Homework is to finish Journal P13-6.

Science: We did an experiment to learn that even organisms of the same kind have differences. Homework is to finish the bar graph of human traits started in class.

Social Studies: Students planned a government for a group of people stranded on an island. Homework is to finish the Designing a Government page.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 5
  • Orange magnets: 1
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 37

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

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.