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KPICASA_GALLERY(HawaiianBeachBash2012)

Today was our Hawaiian Beach Bash! Students surfed, put on Hawaiian shirts, made “sand” castles, tossed foam noodles, ate pineapple slices, passed coconuts and danced to the Beach Boys! Later, it was Hawaiian pizza, Capri Suns and fruit kabobs! Thanks to all the families that helped with food, donations, decorations, games, setup and cleanup! Our party was totally tubular because of everyone’s help! Here’s a sneak peak at some pictures and videos from the party today!

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Today was a work day in writing. Some students worked on editing conferences with a partner.

The next piece of writing, a fictionalized personal narrative, will be due on Friday, November 2. Students should be editing at this point.

Math: None today.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: None today. Tomorrow will be a social studies test about American Indian Cultural Regions. A practice test can be found here.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• 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.

KPICASA_GALLERY(ChickenLegDissection2012)

Spelling: We used letter cards to form words and change them into other similar words.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on look for context clues to help understand difficult words.

Writing: Students used the suggestions from their last piece of writing to form writing groups. Students will stay in these groups until they receive their next writing grade so that they can work together to focus on ways to improve their writing. Here are the ideas that the writing groups will be focusing on:

• Adding visual details
• Adding dialogue
• Focusing on one interesting idea
• Adding dialogue, visual details and action to every scene
• Finishing a piece of writing

The next piece of writing, a fictionalized personal narrative, will be due on Friday, November 2. Students should be revising at this point.

Math: Students practiced multiplying by one-digit numbers today. Homework is to finish Journal P3-6.

Science: Students dissected chicken legs by removing the skin, fascia, muscles, and tendons. Students also found fatty tissue, bone and bone marrow. Here are some photos and videos of the dissection.

Social Studies: None today due to our math and reading skills time.

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:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• 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 soft-syllable endings that sound like /er/. Common spelling patterns for this sound are –ar, –or, and –er, as in dollar, color and runner.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Students also received their latest STAR Reading level. Here are the class results:

As you can see above, our class reading level dropped over the summer, but our last test showed improvement since last month, from a level of 5.4 to 5.5. Our class goal is to reach 6.4. You can see all our class goals and progress in our Data Center.

Writing: None today due to our time with technology.

The next piece of writing, a fictionalized personal narrative, will be due on Friday, November 2. Students should be revising at this point.

Math: Students learned about how to use exponents to show repeated multiplication. Homework is to finish Journal P3-4.

Science: We finished an experiment about the respiratory system. Homework is to finish the analyze and conclude questions of the Heartbeats and Breathing experiment.

Social Studies: We reviewed for an upcoming social studies test about American Indian Cultural Regions. A practice test can be found here.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 1
• 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:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• 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.