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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive pages 40-42 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on summarizing and finding important parts of a story.

Writing: Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 22. Students should drafting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: None today due to a Jump with Jill health food and exercise assembly.

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 about positive and negative aspects of a global economy. We also started learning about how economies can grow and shrink based on technology, resources, or competition.

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.

Spelling: Today was our class spelling bee. Congratulations to Skylar and Connor H., our class finalists!

Cursive: Cursive pages 40-42 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: None today due to our class spelling bee.

Writing: Today we talked about writing complete scenes. A fully developed scene has some talking, some action, and some visual details, and those details are used over and over. For example, a scene might start with talking, the some action, then more talking, a visual detail, then more action, then talking, then more action, then a visual detail. All three details should be present. For our current project, each page is like a scene and should have all three kinds of details.

Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 22. Students should drafting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: Students continued to work on multiplication skills at MobyMax Math.

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

Science: We finished reading about states of matter. We learned that liquids have a definite volume, but a changing shape. Gases have a changing shape and volume.

Social Studies: We reviewed our last assignment about how competition with countries that use cheap materials or labor can cause job losses in the US.

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.

Spelling: We learned about common spelling patterns for the long /e/ sound: ee, ea, e, y.

Cursive: Cursive pages 37-39 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students created their first website links today for choices the reader could make in their story. Our current writing project is a

Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 22. Students should drafting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We practiced using rounding to estimate products. Students also practiced multiplication skills at at MobyMax Math.

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

Science: We started reading about states of matter. We learned that solids have a definite, exact, and unchanging shape and volume (size).

Social Studies: Students worked to thinking about how a global economy affects the US. Homework is to finish the Effects of Global Economy page if not done in class.

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.

Spelling: Students continued to work on their Words to Learn list from the Unit 2 spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive pages 37-39 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on using context clues as a reading strategy.

Writing: Students created their adventure websites today and started working on the home page that tells the reader who the main character is.

Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 22. Students should drafting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes and to continue writing on the home page about the main character.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We practiced breaking apart large number to multiply them. For example:

• 4 x 345 can be broken apart into
  • 4 x 300 = 1200
  • 4 x 40 = 160
  • 4 x 5 = 20
  • Adding the partial products results in the answer.

Students started working on this skill at MobyMax Math.

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

Science: We finished reviewing our last experiment about states of matter. We learned that solids have a definite shape and size, liquids have a changing shape but a definite size, and gases have a changing shape and size.

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

Notes:

• Grand Blanc Community Education is asking about the interest level for August day camps for kids. Some parents have asked for things to keep their kids busy during the dog-days of summer while gearing them up for school. Please share your ideas in this 3-minute 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: None today.

Cursive: Cursive pages 37-39 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading and discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students planned good, bad, and neutral endings to their Choose Your Own Adventure story. They also completed prewriting conferences.

Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 22. Students should prewriting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes and to finish prewriting.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We practiced multiplying multiples of 10 today. Students also started multiplication skills at Khan Academy.

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: January 6 is Dia de Reyes, the Day of Kings, in Mexico and Latin America. Students left their shoes next to their desk and the Kings brought them a gift (fruits snacks). Then we played Toma Todo, a Mexican top game much like the dreidel game. Winners of the game one Mexican Jarritos pops. View some pics below.

Fiesta Mexicana 2015

42 new photos · Album by Christian Howd

Notes:

• Grand Blanc Community Education is asking about the interest level for August day camps for kids. Some parents have asked for things to keep their kids busy during the dog-days of summer while gearing them up for school. Please share your ideas in this 3-minute 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.