Class activities for Monday, September 10

Spelling: Students completed a Spelling Achievement Test today, which will serve as a pretest.

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

Reading: Students completed a STAR Reading test today.

Writing: Students received writer’s folders today. We’ll begin the first writing piece this week.

Math: We talking about the idea of homework today. Homework in math is common. Why do it? Why not skip it and just play games, watch TV, or play with friends?

Homework isn’t always fun, but there are good reasons for doing it:

  • Older students and adults have homework, for school or for work one day.
  • Sometimes there is not enough time to finish a task at school.
  • People who practice get better, smarter and faster when they have to repeat the task later.

To prove the last point, I had everyone make an origami bird. But I only have the directions to some of the students. The ones with the directions make the bird quickly and correctly, the other ones just had to guess and weren’t successful. Later, even when I took the directions away, the ones that had practice could make the origami bird again quickly. Practice helps!

Science: We played a game to review electricity and magnetism ideas from fourth grade.

Social Studies: We played a game to review economics ideas from fourth grade.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 0
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 0

Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.

 

Notes:

  • Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
  • Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.

Our Mission:

All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

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