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Spelling: None today due to extra time with writing.

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

Reading: Students previewed and selected new Literature Circles books.

Writing: Students started prewriting conferences to discuss their adventure story ideas. They also started to plan their story, including the beginning, middle, end, characters, plot and setting.

Our next writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out.  Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Wednesday, January 23. Students should be prewriting to gather ideas at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about division. There is a practice test on math book p. 140.

Science: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about body systems, genetics, traits, and survival.

Social Studies: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about explorers. Here is a practice test.

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:

• Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
• 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 words with the ei and ie spelling patterns.

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

Reading: The final two groups performed their Literature Circles plays today.

Writing: Today, we talked about the various kinds of endings of Choose Your Own Adventure books. There is usually one good ending that solves the problem, several bad endings that usually result in death for the character, and some neutral endings in which the character fails in solving the problem, but at least survives. See below for some examples.

Our next writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out.  Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Wednesday, January 23. Students should be prewriting to gather ideas at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We practiced solving word problems that contain extra or missing information. Homework is to finish Journal P5-8.

Science: None today due to our math skills time.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• 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:

• Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
• 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 extra time with writing.

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

Reading: Two groups performed their Literature Circles plays today.

Writing: Our next writing project was introduced today, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out.  Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

This project is due Wednesday, January 23. Students should be prewriting to gather ideas at this point.

Math: We practiced estimating quotients of large numbers and dividing using calculators. Homework is to finish Journal P5-7.

Science: We finished learning about how living creatures survive over time, how catastrophes are involved in making fossils and extinctions, and how animals use traits to survive.

Social Studies: Today, we reviewed the impacts of the explorers we’ve learned about, and tried to order the explorers by importance. Homework is to finish notebook pp. 31-32.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 4

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

Notes:

• Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
• 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 homophones with long /e/ spelling patterns:

• feet/feat
• heel/heal
• beat/beet

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

Reading: Two groups performed their Literature Circles plays today.

Writing: Students worked on publishing today.

The next piece of writing, a fiction piece, is due Monday, December 17. Students should be publishing at this point.

Math: None today due to STAR Friday.

Science: We started to learn about how living creatures survive over time, how catastrophes are involved in making fossils and extinctions, and how animals use traits to survive.

Social Studies: We learned about how Spain and France battled for control of Florida during the 1500s. Homework is to finish reading social studies book pp. 70-71 and complete notebook p. 30.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 4

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

Notes:

• Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
• 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 extra time with writing.

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

Reading: Students practiced reading their Literature Circles magazine plays today. Groups will perform the plays htis week and next.

Writing: Students worked on completing editing conferences and editing or publishing.

The next piece of writing, a fiction piece, is due Monday, December 17. Students should be publishing at this point.

Math: We continued to practice dividing using two-digit divisors. Homework is to finish Journal P5-6.

Science: We completed an activity that modeled how a dog would have certain traits based on which genes were randomly inherited from their mother or father.

Social Studies: We finished writing notes about various European explorers.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 4

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

Notes:

• Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
• 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.