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Spelling: None today due to the half day schedule.

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

Reading: None today due to the half day schedule.

Writing: None today due to the half day schedule.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26. Students should be finished with their draft and revising by now.

Math: Students finished working on a math test today.

Science: We learned about the digestive system and how proteins, starches and fats and broken down in the body. We also traced the path through the digestive system using a model in class. Here’s an online body browser than can show the parts of the human body.

Social Studies: Students wrote an explorer’s log entry to show what they learned about the motivations of the explorers, the tools they used, and the products they brought back from the New World. Homework is to finish Notebook p. 25.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• View 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: Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

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

Reading: Students continued to practice reading a selection from their Literature Circles book that they will read as a monologue to the class. This monologue gives students practice with reading aloud with proper speed, tone and volume.

Writing: We talked about revising dialogue so that it help the reader understand a part of the story. If the dialogue is not that important, if it’s just “chit chat,” it can be removed. We also talked about how dialogue should be back and forth, one speaker talks, then the other, then the first speaker, then the second.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26. Students should be drafting by now.

Math: Students worked on a math test today.

Science: We learned about the digestive system. Students completed an experiment that involved the breakdown of starch into sugar using the enzymes in saliva. Homework is to finish the Saliva Makes it Sweet experiment.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 7

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

Notes:

• View 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 forming and taking apart contractions. This will be the skill tested on tomorrow’s spelling test.

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

Reading: Students started practicing reading a selection from their Literature Circles book that they will read as a monologue to the class. This monologue gives students practice with reading aloud with proper speed, tone and volume.

Writing: None today due to our time with technology.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26. Students should be drafting by now.

Math: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s math test about multiplication. A practice test can be found on math book pp. 86-87.

Science: None today due our math skills time.

Social Studies: We finished learning about four important events in Europe that motivated explorers to come to the New World:

1. Muslims were defeated in Spain and the Catholic Church grew;
2. Spain sent Christopher Columbus to share the Catholic faith and look for riches;
3. Protestant Churches formed when Martin Luther protested against the Catholic Church and started the Reformation;
4. Protestant England defeated Catholic Spain and the Spanish Armada. England later sent explorers to maintain their power and wealth in the world.

Homework is to complete Notebook p. 24 started in class.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 5
• 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:

• View 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 punctuating dialogue and the difference between dialogue and description:

• Mother asked, “What’s the matter?”
• Mother asked what was the matter.

The first sentence above uses quotation marks to show the actual works of Mother, while the second sentence does not tell her actual words.

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

Reading: The final four groups presented Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: Today was a drafting work day.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26. Students should be drafting by now.

Math: None today due to STAR Friday.

Science: None today due to extra time with social studies.

Social Studies: We continued to learn about four important events in Europe that motivated explorers to come to the New World:

1. Muslims were defeated in Spain and the Catholic Church grew;
2. Spain sent Christopher Columbus to share the Catholic faith and look for riches;
3. Protestant Churches formed when Martin Luther protested against the Catholic Church and started the Reformation;
4. Protestant England defeated Catholic Spain and the Spanish Armada. England later sent explorers to maintain their power and wealth in the world.

Today, we learned about the complaints of Martin Luther against the Catholic Church and why he protested their teachings.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 8

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

Notes:

• The Missing Work Policy has been updated.
• View 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 the idea that suffixes are parts added onto a base word that change the meaning of the word.

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

Reading: Two groups presented Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: We talked about using the 2-3-1 format of organization in a story. This means that a writer should not give the most interesting part of the story at the beginning. Otherwise, the story will end with the least interesting information, and the reader will lost interest. It’s better to lead with the second most interesting part, and save the best part for last.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26. Students should be prewriting or drafting by now.

Math: Students practiced drawing a picture and writing equations to help solve problems. Homework is to finish Journal P3-9.

Science: We wrote notes about the nervous system and started to learn about the digestive system. Homework is to finish the Dealing with Digestion review page.

Social Studies: We learned about four important events in Europe that motivated explorers to come to the New World:

1. Muslims were defeated in Spain and the Catholic Church grew;
2. Spain sent Christopher Columbus to share the Catholic faith and look for riches;
3. Protestant Churches formed when Martin Luther protested against the Catholic Church and started the Reformation;
4. Protestant England defeated Catholic Spain and the Spanish Armada. England later sent explorers to maintain their power and wealth in the world.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• 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:

• The Missing Work Policy has been updated.
• 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.