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Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: None today due to the half day schedule.

Writing: None today due to the half day schedule. A fiction story is due Friday, November 21. Your student should be revising by now.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Here are some of the skills we’ve been working on lately. These would be good skills to practice at home.

• Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits with area models
• Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits
• Multi-digit multiplication
• Powers of ten

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We watched the Rosetta Mission comet landing live!

Social Studies: We finished learning about why Martin Luther disagreed with the Catholic Church of the time, how a religious war started, and how that caused explorers to come to America.

Notes:

• The Scrip fundraiser is starting again on Mondays. Learn more about this easy way to earn free money for 5th grade camp.
• The Pizza Kit 5th Grade Camp fundraiser is ongoing until December 5. Orders and money are due at that time.
• Fall Conferences are November 11-13. View or edit your conference appointment.
• View our daily learning targets.
• 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, report cards, behavior, 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, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Students planned a project today to share their Literature Circles book with the class. They will work on this project for the remainder of the week.

Writing: We reviewed the idea that saving the best fact or most interesting part for later in the story is a good way to keep the reader’s interest. Our next piece of writing, a fiction story, is due Friday, November 21. Your student should be almost finished with their draft by now.

Math: We learned about using multiplying using the distributive property today. For example, to multiply 53 x 7, the problem can be divided into 50 x 7 and 3 x 7. Doing it that way splits up the 53 into more manageable numbers: 50 and 3.

Students practiced this skill using Khan Academy.

Here are some of the skills we’ve been working on lately. These would be good skills to practice at finish at home.

• Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits with area models
• Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits
• Multi-digit multiplication
• Powers of ten

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

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

Social Studies: We learned more about why Martin Luther disagreed with the Catholic Church of the time, how a religious war started, and how that caused explorers to come to America.

Notes:

• The Scrip fundraiser is starting again on Mondays. Learn more about this easy way to earn free money for 5th grade camp.
• The Pizza Kit 5th Grade Camp fundraiser is ongoing until December 5. Orders and money are due at that time.
• Fall Conferences are November 11-13. View or edit your conference appointment.
• View our daily learning targets.
• 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, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Our Fall Book Fair is December 2-5. We are looking for family members that would be willing to volunteer to help with sales during the school day. If you can help, there is a sign up sheet on the window outside of the office.

Spelling: We reviewed contractions today, which will be the skill tested on tomorrow’s spelling test.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, 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 spent working on solving computer programming challenges.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction story, is due Friday, November 21. Your student should be drafting by now.

Math: We learned about using exponents today. Students also worked on multiplication skills using Khan Academy.

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We reviewed acquired and inherited traits.

Social Studies: We learned about Martin Luther protesting the Catholic Church during the Reformation, and how England defeated the Spanish Armada.

Notes:

• The Scrip fundraiser is starting again on Mondays. Learn more about this easy way to earn free money for 5th grade camp.
• The Pizza Kit 5th Grade Camp fundraiser is ongoing until December 5. Orders and money are due at that time.
• Fall Conferences are November 11-13. View or edit your conference appointment.
• View our daily learning targets.
• 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, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: We reviewed the many different rules for spelling base words when suffixes are added onto them.

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

Reading: Today was a reading skills and AR quiz day.

Writing: We talked about saving the best detail for last in writing. In a fiction story, that might mean having a character try to solve the problem several times, but the last try is the most interesting and finally solves the problem.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction story, is due Friday, November 21. Your student should be about half way finished with their draft by now.

Math: Students worked on multiplication skills using Khan Academy.

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We learned that traits can be acquired or inherited, they can be learned from the environment or received from birth. Homework is to finish the “Where Did You Get Your Traits?” experiment if not finished in class.

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

Notes:

• The Scrip fundraiser is starting again on Mondays. Learn more about this easy way to earn free money for 5th grade camp.
• Fall Conferences are November 11-13. View or edit your conference appointment.
• View our daily learning targets.
• 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, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.