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Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

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

Reading: None today due to visiting the 4th grade Market Day.

Writing: Students wrote a piece of writing today following  school-wide writing prompt.

Math: We practiced dividing decimals by decimals. Homework  is to finish Journal P7-6.

Science: None today due to extra time with writing.

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:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is on February 14. Can you help?
• 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.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

Math: We practiced dividing whole numbers by decimals . Homework  is to finish Journal P7-5.

Science: None today due to our math skills time.

Social Studies: We learned about the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is on February 14. Can you help?
• 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 reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students worked on editing conferences for their essays.

The next piece of writing, a literary essay (here’s an example), is due Friday, February 8.

Math: We practiced dividing decimals by whole numbers. Homework  is to finish Journal P7-4.

Science: We reviewed the analysis questions from the last activity about testing medicines scientifically.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 1
• STAR Awards: 7
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 10

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

Notes:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is on February 14. Can you help?
• 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: Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We talked about how the ending of an essay should restart the theme or big idea, and then include some type of connection or what the writer has learned from the book.

Students also continued to draft their literary essay project.

The next piece of writing, a literary essay (here’s an example), is due Friday, February 8. Homework is for students to finish their essay draft tonight if not done already.

Math: We practiced using number sence to place decimals in quotients. For example, the problem 12.4 / 3.2 has the digits 3875 in the answer. Using estimation, the problem is 12 / 3, which equals 4. Since the answer has to be near 4, the correct place to put the decimals would be 3.875. Homework is to finish Journal P7-3.

Science: We finished reading about clinical trials and the placebo effect. Homework is to finish the analysis questions on pp. 19-21.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• 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:

• Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is on February 14. Can you help?
• 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: We reviewed adding suffixes onto words when the final letter is doubled, as in stopped or running. This is the skill that will be tested on tomorrow’s spelling test.

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

Reading: None today.

Writing: We talked about explaining evidence in an essay by connecting the evidence to the theme. A writer can do this by talking about an example from the book, then saying, “This shows that…” to connect the example to the theme.

Students also continued to draft their literary essay project.

The next piece of writing, a literary essay (here’s an example), is due Friday, February 8. Students should be finishing their essay draft soon.

Math: We practices estimating quotients. Homework is to finish Jouranl P7-2.

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

Social Studies: We stated to learn about the regions of colonies in early America. Homework is to finish notebook p. 39.

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.