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Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Students completed part 2 of the Reading MEAP test today.

Writing: Students completed revising conferences today using a Checklist for Good Writers. During the conference students provided feedback and comments to help the writer make their story better. 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 Friday, October 11. Your student should be revising at this time.

Math: None today due to extra time with writing.

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

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

Behavior Update:

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

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.

Spelling: None today.

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

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

Writing: Students received feedback on their last piece of writing and wrote notes about it on a writing log. They also continued to work on their next piece of writing.

The second piece of writing for the year is a personal narrative, due Friday, October 11. Your student should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: We practiced using pictures to solve number stories and write equations. Homework is to finish Journal P1-10.

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

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 2
• 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 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.

Spelling: We started to make Words to Learn lists. This will be a list of words missed on the last spelling test that can be studied for future tests.

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

Reading: Today we started to place everyone into a Literature Circles group. This will be a group of students that will read and discuss the same book, usually for about a month. Groups will change after a month, new Literature Circles groups will form, and and new books will read.

Writing: None today due to an assembly about bullying.

The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft and getting ready to revise at this time.

Math: We practiced using multiplication facts to help solve division facts. Homework is to finish Journal P1-9. Some students are still struggling with mastering multiplication and division facts. Using Math Facts in a Flash or MobyMax Fact Master for just 5-10 minutes each night will make a big difference!

Science: We wrote notes in our minibooks about magnetic metals and materials, temporary and permanent magnets, and how the force of a magnet can go through thin, non-magnetic materials.

Social Studies: We started to learn about how scarcity causes people to make choices about what to make, how make products, and what to buy.

Behavior Update:

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

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.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Monday.

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

Writing: We talked about using details to prove general statements. Without details, a reader will think the story is floaty, spacey or general-feeling.

Students also continued to draft their current story. The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft and getting reading to revise at this time.

Math: Today was our math skills practice time.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We continued to learn about economic activities of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 10

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.

Spelling: Today we learned about homophones and homographs:

• A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word, but a different spelling or meaning. Example: made/maid.
• A homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word, but a different sound or meaning. Example: wind (The wind blows.)/wind (Wind the clock).

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Friday.

Reading: We practiced visualizing as a reading strategy by drawing illustrations that matched text from a story.

Writing: Students created digital writing portfolios in their Google Docs and started to organize their writing.

Students also continued to draft their current story. The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft at this time.

Math: We continued to review special quotients today.

Science: We finished reviewing our last science experiment about the force of magnet through different materials. We learned that a magnet’s force can attract through many different materials, as long as the materials are thin enough and not magnetic.

Social Studies: None today due to extra science time.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 5
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 10

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.