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Spelling: We reveiewed the idea that homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently.

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

Reading: None today due to musical rehearsal.

Writing: Students continued to draft their story websites today.

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 Monday, January 21. Students should be drafting 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!
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: None today due to musical rehearsal.

Science: Students completed an activity about the discovery of the cause of the disease, pellagra. Homework is to finish the analyze questions in the science book on pp. 9-10.

Social Studies: We learned about Jamestown.

Behavior Update:

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

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. We also looked at our class reading level progress:

Our most recent class reading level was 6.4, a slight drop from December’s 6.5 level. However, level 6.4 matches our yearly goal! So far, the class reading level has grown a year, and it’s only January! Great work, everyone!

Writing: Students continued to draft their story websites today.

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 Monday, January 21. Students should be drafting 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: None today due to STAR Friday.

Science: We learned about how a scientist investigated the cause of a disease called pellagra.

Social Studies: We learned about the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke. Homework is to finish notebook p. 34.

Behavior Update:

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

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: Today we reviewed the idea that some words have silent letters. We also practiced making plural words from words ending in f or fe. In those words, the f is changed to a v, as in wolves, knives, or leaves.

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 making inferences as reading strategies.

Writing: We talked about providing clues in writing to let the reader make inferences, instead of always telling ther reader exactly what happens. Students also continued to draft their story websites today.

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 Monday, January 21. Students should be drafting 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 multiplying decimals by whole numbers. Homework is to finish Journal P6-5.

Science: We reviewed the experiment from yesterday. Homework is to finish Analysis questions 1 and 3 from the Problem Solving: Save Fred experiment.

Social Studies: We started to learn about the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 5

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was the Room 130 spelling bee. Congratulations to Tai and Sam, our class representatives for the school spelling bee later in the month.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students continued to draft their story websites today.

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 Monday, January 21. Students should be drafting 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 looked at models of decimal multiplication. Homework is to finish Journal P6-4.

Science: Students completed an experiment about solving a problem and writing down the steps of solving. Homework is to finish writing their problem solving procedure and to complete Analysis questions 1 and 3.

Social Studies: None today due to our class spelling bee.

Behavior Update:

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

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students continued to draft their story websites today.

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 Monday, January 21. Students should be drafting 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 using number sense by estimating to place decimals after multiplying. Here’s an example:

1. For 3.2 x 4.1, estimate the problem to be 3 x 4. The answer is 12.
2. Using the estimate, the answer must be close to 12.
3. To solve this problem, multiply the number without decimals points. The problem would be 32 x 41, and the answer is 1312.
4. To place the decimal, use the estimate of 12. Since the answer needs to be close to 12, the decimals should be put after the 13. The answer is 13.12.

Homework is to finish Journal P6-3.

Science: We organized our science notebook to make it easier to use it for science experiment notes. We began the first experiment about solving problems.

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): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.