December 4th, 2015
Class activities for Friday, December 4
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Cursive pp. 28-30 are available in class and due on Friday.
Reading: Today was a reading skills and AR practice day.
Writing: We talked about ways to make a story feel more organized. One way would be to use paragraphs; another way would be to order events in a story from a beginning introducing the characters and settings, to a middle that shows the problem and ways to fix it, to the ending that shows how the problem was solved.
A fiction story will be due Friday, December 18. Your student should be drafting at this point. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes.
Math: Students used Khan Academy to practice math skills. Some worked on addition within 1000.
Below are some skills we’ve been working on lately; if your student hasn’t finished these skills, now would be the time to finish. We’ll be moving to another topic next week.
Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.
Science: We completed an experiment together about how to make an electromagnet stronger by making a bigger wire coil.
Social Studies: We finished learning about positive and negative incentives and wrote notes in our minibooks (those students that were organized enough to have their minibooks with them). There will be a miniquiz about this topic soon.
Notes:
- 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.
