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Spelling: None today due to extra math time.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Writing: Students completed prewriting conferences today by adding comments and questions into a partner’s Google document. Homework is to have a family member continue to add comments into the document, if needed.

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

Math: Students completed a math test today.

Science: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Social Studies: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 5
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 11

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.

Spelling: Students continued to make their Words to Learn list form words missed on the last spelling test. This will be your student’s spelling list for the next test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Students practiced asking questions, making connections, selecting passages, and visualizing as reading strategies.

Writing: We talked about how an author can make up realistic details to make a story more interesting for the reader. As long as being truthful isn’t the goal, a story that has been “fictionalized” a little can be more interesting. Here is a story that is a personal narrative that has been fictionalized slightly:

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

Math: None today due to the MEAP Math test. We’ll have a math test tomorrow.

Science: None today due to the MEAP Math test.

Social Studies: None today due to the MEAP Math test.

Behavior Update:

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

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.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was our first Literature Circles reading day. Each student received a text at their level to read with a group of students. Today they started reading their books silently and writing down in a notebook.

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 prewriting at this time.

Math: We reviewed for tomorrow’s math test about multiplication and division. A practice test can be found on p. 34 in the math book.

Science: Students completed an experiment to test how the force of magnet changes over distance. Homework is to finish the “Breaking the Force” experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We reviewed scarcity, making choices, and opportunity cost today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 3
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 6

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.

Spelling: None on Fridays.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 24-27 were due Friday.

Reading: Today was our reading skills practice time using MobyMax.

Writing: We talked more about proving general statements with details. A reader will believe a writer if the details prove what the story is saying. Three good kinds of details for stories are visual details, action, and talking.

The second piece of writing for the year is a personal narrative, due Monday, October 14 (new date). Your student should be editing or publishing at this time.

Math: Today was our math skills practice time using MobyMax Math and Khan Academy.

Science: We started working on a experiment to test how the force of magnet changes over distance.

Social Studies: Students practiced reading stories, looking for problems with scarcity, and brainstorming choices that could be made to solve the scarcity problems. Homework is to finish the Scarcity Chart if not finished in class.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 14

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

Spelling: Students worked on their Words to Learn lists by correcting words missed on their last spelling test. These words are your student’s spelling list to practice for the next test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 24-27 are due on Friday.

Reading: Students completed part 1 of the Writing MEAP test today.

Writing: Students completed editing conferences today using a Checklist for Good Writers. During the conference students added comments to the story of another writing, pointing out mistakes with spelling, capital letters and sentence sense. Your student may need to finish the conference at home with a family member or friend.

The second piece of writing for the year is a personal narrative, due Monday, October 14 (new date). Your student should be editing at this time and reading to complete their writing.

Math: Students used MobyMax Math to work on math skills. Would you like to see how your student is progressing? Just go to shortlinks.mrhowd.com/mobymax and select “parent” from the menu. Log in with your student’s username, which is name13 (jessica13 or jason13). The password is your student’s 8-digit birthdate in the format of MMDDYYYY.

Science: None today due to working on the Writing MEAP test.

Social Studies: None today due to working on the Writing MEAP test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 11

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 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our new 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 Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.