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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Cirlces. Some groups worked on making connections and visualizing as reading strategies.

Writing: We continued to talk about using precise nouns instead of general words that make the reader confused. If a writer uses a specific noun for a person, place, or thing, the reader will better understand what is happening in the writing.

Today was also a revising work day, and students started revising the beginning of their story.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: Students used MobyMax to work on math skills today.

Science: We started an experiment about using tools and the science of magnetism to find hidden magnets. Students also completed a MiniQuiz about how a magnet’s force changes with distance and when passing through objects.

Social Studies: We continued to learn about the features of a market economy, learning today about these features:

• private property rights (people and businesses own the property, not the government)
• competition (businesses compete for consumers)
• voluntary exchange (people choose what to buy and sell, and businesses will sell what consumers demand)

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 10

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

Notes:

• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today due to the late start schedule.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to the late start schedule.

Writing: We talked about using specific words instead of general words that make the reader confused:

• use “rust,” not “brown stuff.”
• say “instruction manual,” not “car booklet.”
• write “jack,” not “thing to lift the car up.”

Looking for better and more specific word choices is one way a reader can revise their writing to improve it.

Today was also a drafting work day. The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finishing the end of their draft by now and ready to revise tomorrow.

Math: Students worked on math skills using Khan Academy today.

Science: None today due to the late start schedule.

Social Studies: None today due to art.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 9

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

Notes:

• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We reviewed the idea that homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and sometimes sound different.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading and discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Today was a drafting work day.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft by now.

Math: Students worked on math skills using MobyMax today.

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

Social Studies: We learned about the features of a market economy: specialization, competition, voluntary exchange, and consumer sovereignty.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 2
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 8

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

Notes:

• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We practiced forming words with common spelling patterns for the long i sound: igh, ind, i, i-consonant-e, y.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups practiced asking questions as a reading strategy.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be nearing the half-way point of their draft by now.

Math: Students completed a math pretest today before we start our next topic.

Science: We reviewed our last experiment and learned that the force of a magnet gets weaker as the distance between objects grows. A magnet’s force gets stronger when it is closer to another magnet or object.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2

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

Notes:

• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We learned common spelling patterns for the long i sound: igh, ind, i, i-consonant-e, y.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 were due today.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Students shared their questions, connections, illustrations, and passages with the other readers in their group and discussed their reading.

Writing: We talked about how much time it takes to write a quality piece of writing. If a student works for just 15 minutes a day at school, that would amount to 3 hours of writing time over 3 weeks. If that students works just 15 minutes at home a day, that would be another 3 hours, for a total of 6 hours. Working for only 15 minutes at school and home each day isn’t much, so working for longer might be needed to write an interesting piece of writing that others want to read. For students that don’t work each day, and wait until the deadline, they would have to work for 6 hours just to achieve an average piece of writing. The point: don’t wait until the end! Work a little each day at school and home!

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be nearing the half-way point of their draft by now.

Math: We used Khan Academy and MobyMax to work on math skills.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We started learning about the features of a market economy, the system used in the US. Homework is to finish the Market Economy: Important Ideas notes page started yesterday with a guest teacher.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 15

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.