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Spelling: We reviewed rules for adding prefixes onto to base words. We remembered that when a prefix is added onto a word, the spelling of the base word does not change.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays. Today’s assignment will be collected on Monday.

Reading: Students previewed new Literature Circles books today.

Writing: To think of possible writing ideas for this year, students created their own map of “buried stories.” Each student drew a map of a familiar place, then thought of interesting memories that took place there. These ideas could be turned into stories this year!

Students also worked on drafting for their current piece of writing.  The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Friday, September 21.

Math: None today. We will review fractions and decimals on Monday, as well as converting fractions into decimals with division.  See a video here about that. The homework of Journal P1-2 from yesterday will be reviewed Monday.

Science: We reviewed food chains and webs today.

Social Studies: Related to Constitution Day, we watched a movie about what America might be like without the constitution and the Bill of Rights. Short answer: not pretty! Ask your student for details!

Here are some other Constitution Day goodies: Learn why are country doesn’t have kings, how we started the Revolution, and the Preamble to the Constitution.

Here’s 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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 6

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.

Spelling: We reviewed rules for capital letters today.

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

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

Writing: Students worked on drafting for their current piece of writing.  The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Friday, September 21.

Math: We reviewed fractions and decimals today. Students also learned how to convert a fraction into a decimal by dividing. For example, the fraction 3/5 is 3 divided by 5. Standard division can be used to divide to arrive at a decimal answer. Math book p. 8 has a review of converting fractions into decimals.

Homework is to finish Journal P1-2.

Science: We reviewed matter and energy today, ideas we learned in fourth grade.

Social Studies: None today due to a scheduled math skills time.

Constitution Day is Monday, September 17. Learn why are country doesn’t have kings, how we started the Revolution, and the Preamble to the Constitution.

Here’s 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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 5

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.

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

Behavior Update:

• 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.

Spelling: Students assembled their writer’s folders today. This includes a list of spelling words and other resources to help with spelling.

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

Reading: None today due to a presentation about September 11.

Writing: Students prepared their writer’s folders today. They also began think of some topics to write about this year. The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Friday, September 21.

Math: We started a review of place value today. Homework is to finish Journal R1-1.

Science: None today due to our math skills practice time.

Social Studies: We watched a presentation to remember the events of September 11.

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.

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.