September 12th, 2012
Class activities for Wednesday, September 12
Spelling: None today due to a fire drill.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: We started reading our shared reading books, Esperanza Rising. This is a story we started last year and will continue this year.
Writing: Students made authority lists today of things that they know about, places they’ve been, or other topics that they are familiar with. Students also started prewriting today. The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Friday, September 21.
Math: We continued to a review of place value and ways to write numbers (word form, expanded, standard form). Homework is to finish Journal P1-1.
Science: We reviewed matter and energy today, ideas we learned in fourth grade.
Social Studies: Constitution Day is Monday, September 17. In observance, we started to learn about the freedoms our Constitution gives to us, and we watched some SchoolHouse Rock video clips about why are country doesn’t have kings, how we started the Revolution, and the Preamble to the Constitution.
We learned and sang the Preamble to the Constitution:
We the people
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution
For the United States of America.
Here’s the song:
The Preamble of the Constitution
- Yellow magnets: 3
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 3
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.
