May 9th, 2013
Class activities for Thursday, May 9
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; some groups worked on breaking unfamiliar words into chunks to help read the words.
Writing: We talked about turning a memory into a poem today. A collection of poems will be due Friday, May 17.
Math: We practiced thinking about multiplication of fractions as scaling (making something larger or smaller). Homework is to finish Journal P11-7.
Science: Students work on their jet toy car that they are building in teams.
Social Studies: We learned about Patrick Henry, the patriot that said, “Give me liberty or give me death!” We’ll have a quiz tomorrow about patriots and loyalists. Here is a practice test for review.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 6
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Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.
