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Spelling: Students started making Words to Learn lists by correcting words they missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-21 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading skills and AR practice day. Students also received their latest STAR Reading level today. Here is the class average:

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As you can see, our class average reading level dropped from 4.4 to 3.9. To try to reverse this trend, we are now working on reading skills practice three days a week, in addition to Literature Circles four days a week. Some students admitted they are not reading at home 20 minutes a night. Everyone said they are going to look for ways to improve. I told the class we can take the STAR test again on Monday to see if being more thoughtful and careful will give them a better result.

Writing: Today was a publishing day. This personal narrative is due Monday, November 9. Your student should be making final revisions and edits, and publishing so that the writing looks nice and is readable.

Math: Students continued to work on practicing pattern skills here:

• Math patterns 2
• MobyMax Math

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: We started an experiment about making an electrical circuit with one battery, one wire, and one bulb. Students will finish this experiment next week.

Social Studies: We started to learn about how supply, demand, and competition affect price.

Notes:

• Fall conferences are November 10-12. Make, view, or edit your fall conference time.
• Our school is asking parents to please complete this brief parent survey.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: Today was a spelling and skill test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-21 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on questioning and making connections as a reading strategy.

Writing: Today was an editing day; and students worked on editing conferences with a partner. This personal narrative is due Monday, November 9. Your student should be editing at this point.

Math: Today students completed a STAR Math test.

Students also worked on patterns skills here:

• Math patterns 2
• MobyMax Math

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: None today due to our reading skills and AR practice time.

Social Studies: Students completed a MiniQuiz today about circular flow.

Notes:

• Fall conferences are November 10-12. Make, view, or edit your fall conference time.
• Our school is asking parents to please complete this brief parent survey.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: Today we practiced sorting words by short and long vowel sounds. This will be the skill tested on tomorrow’s spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-21 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Today was an editing day. Students worked on editing their own writing for spelling, capital letters, and sentence sense. This personal narrative is due Friday, November 6. Your student should be editing at this point.

Math: Today we practiced looking for an extending patterns in tables.

Students also worked on patterns skills here:

• Math patterns 2
• MobyMax Math

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: Students completed a magnetism MiniQuiz.

Social Studies: None today due to a physical education nutrition lesson.

Notes:

• Fall conferences are November 10-12. Make, view, or edit your fall conference time.
• Our school is asking parents to please complete this brief parent survey.
• The Mackinac field trip page has been updated for this school year.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: Today we practiced using the words fewer/less. Many people just use less in all cases, but less is for things than can’t be counted, and fewer is for things than can be counted. Examples:

• There is less wind today.
• There are fewer students this year.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 19-21 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: None today due to art.

Writing: Today was the last in-school revising day. This personal narrative is due Friday, November 6. Your student should be continuing to look for ways to revise their draft.

Math: Today we continued to practice looking for and extending patterns, focusing today on number patterns.

Here’s a skill we’ve been working on lately (and some students are struggling with) that your student could work on at home:

• Math patterns 2

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: We played a game to practice for Wednesday’s magnetism test.

Social Studies: We wrote notes in our minibooks about circular flow. We’ll have a MiniQuiz about that on Wednesday.

Notes:

• Fall conferences are November 10-12. Make, view, or edit your fall conference time.
• Our school is asking parents to please complete this brief parent survey.
• The Mackinac field trip page has been updated for this school year.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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