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Spelling: None today due to our BioBlitz field trip.

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

Reading: None today due to our BioBlitz field trip.

Writing: Students worked on publishing their writing today, adding a title, resolving comments, and making their writing readable to the reader.

Also, students were provided with a colored file folder this week that they should decorate with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings. The folders are due Monday at the latest. 

Math: None today due to our BioBlitz field trip. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or something else.

Science: None today due to our BioBlitz field trip.

Social Studies: None today due to our BioBlitz field trip.

Notes:

• Picture Day is on Monday! Wear something purdy! You can order picture packages online at mylifetouch.com. Use Picture Day ID: LM436051Y0.
• Our BioBlitz field trip was today! Thanks to the family members who helped out. Check out pictures in another post.
• Have you set up a Daily Homework Time for your student? Consider 15 minutes of math, 15 minutes of writing, and 20 minutes of something else to make a brain smarter!
• Here is important information from the chromebook meeting. If you are purchasing insurance, please do that by September 21.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View links to all the websites we use in class.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: We reviewed the idea that homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings:

• ring (jewelry) and ring (the sound a bell makes)
• box (punch fists) and box (a container)

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

Reading: Today we finished the reading day in Literature Circles that we started yesterday.

Writing: Students worked on editing their writing today, looking for mistakes with spelling, capitals, sentence sense, paragraphs, and others. The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Monday, September 26. Your student should be editing nowAlso, students were provided with a colored file folder this week that they should decorate with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings. The

Also, students were provided with a colored file folder this week that they should decorate with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings. The folders are due Monday at the latest. 

Math: We practiced reading and writing decimals and fractions to the thousandths place. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or something else.

Science: We started an experiment about how science is used to study people. We’ll finish this experiment on Monday.

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

Notes:

• Our BioBlitz field trip in Friday, September 23 from 9:15-2:30. Students will need a sack lunch and a blanket (optional). We can take a few chaperones, but please have the volunteer form completed and turned in to the office if interested. There is a slight chance of rain on Friday, so students are welcome to pack rain gear.
• Have you set up a Daily Homework Time for your student? Consider 15 minutes of math, 15 minutes of writing, and 20 minutes of something else to make a brain smarter!
• Here is important information from the chromebook meeting. If you are purchasing insurance, please do that by September 21.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View links to all the websites we use in class.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: We started to practice irregular verbs today. For example:

• hold – held
• run – ran
• speak – spoke

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on forming questions as a reading strategy.

Writing: Students completed revising conferences today by adding comments to a partner’s writing. Homework is to finish adding at least five helpful comments to a partner’s writing if not finished in class.

The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Monday, September 26. Your student should be done with at least a half-page draft and looking for ways to change and improve their writing.

Also, students were provided with a colored file folder this week that they should decorate with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings. The folders are due Friday. 

Math: We practiced using dividing fractions to find the equivalent decimal. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or something else.

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

Social Studies: We finished learning about other American Indian cultures that had to use natural resources from their environment to survive: the Inuit of the arctic, the Mound Builders of the midwest, the Anasazi of the southwest.

Notes:

• Our BioBlitz field trip in Friday, September 23 from 9:15-2:30. Students will need a sack lunch and a blanket (optional). We can take a few chaperones, but please have the volunteer form completed and turned in to the office if interested. There is a slight chance of rain on Friday, so students are welcome to pack rain gear.
• Have you set up a Daily Homework Time for your student? Consider 15 minutes of math, 15 minutes of writing, and 20 minutes of something else to make a brain smarter!
• Here is important information from the chromebook meeting. If you are purchasing insurance, please do that by September 21.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View links to all the websites we use in class.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: We continued to practice compound words today.

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

Reading: Students received magazines today. Students will read their magazine silently in their book group and write notes in the Literature Circles notebook. On alternating days, they will discuss their notes with their book group. Today was just started reading the first page, and will read more pages tomorrow.

Writing: We talked more about using details to prove ideas so that the writing is more interesting and realistic. We also reviewed the three common details in narrative writing:

• talking (or thinking)
• action (what characters or objects do)
• visual details (what characters, places, objects look like)

Students also worked on revising their personal narrative. Homework is for students to continue to work on their story for at least 15 minutes.

The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Monday, September 26. Your student should be done with at least a half-page draft and looking for ways to change and improve their writing.

Also, students were provided with a colored file folder this week that they should decorate with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings. The folders are due Friday. 

Math: We practiced using equivalent fractions to change one fraction into an easier fraction, and to then convert that fraction into a decimal. For example, 3/5 is equivalent to 6/10, and that is easier to change into the decimal 0.6. We also used MobyMax Math to continue to work on decimal and place value skills. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or something else.

Science: We reviewed the Solving Problems-Save Fred! experiment from yesterday and students submitted their notebooks for a grade. Some students didn’t finish this homework yesterday and are already starting to put a strain on their report card.

Social Studies: We learned today that the first American Indians were hunter-gatherers, but then learned to farm. That helped large civilizations to spring up in Mexico.

Notes:

• Our BioBlitz field trip in Friday, September 23 from 9:15-2:30. Students will need a sack lunch and a blanket (optional). We can take a few chaperones, but please have the volunteer form completed and turned in to the office if interested.
• Have you set up a Daily Homework Time for your student? Consider 15 minutes of math, 15 minutes of writing, and 20 minutes of something else to make a brain smarter!
• Here is important information from the chromebook meeting. If you are purchasing insurance, please do that by September 21.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View links to all the websites we use in class.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: We practiced two more reading strategies today: visualizing and determining importance. In Literature Circles, students will show their visualizing by drawing illustrations, and they will show that they can identify important passages by writing about parts of a text and why they selected that part. Students also turned in their notebooks for a grade.

Writing: We talked about proving ideas by using details. For example, if a student says a place if fun, prove it!. Is a ride scary, prove with with talking and visual details! Is a park beautiful, prove it! Details make a writing more specific and interesting to read.

Students also worked on their draft. Homework is for students to finish their draft of at least half a page. The first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due on Friday, September 23. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft by now. Also, students were provided with a colored file folder. I asked students to decorate the folder with stickers, pictures, clippings, or drawings and to return by Friday to be laminated. This will be each student’s writing portfolio for the year.

Math: We practiced converting fractions to decimals and vice versa today. We also used MobyMax Math to continue to work on decimal and place value skills. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or something else.

Science: Students worked with a partner to complete the Solving Problems-Save Fred! experiment. Homework is to finish writing details steps on how each group solved the Save Fred problem, and to finish analysis questions 1 and 3 on p. 7. Students should write all notes in their science notebooks. Also, I shared a digital copy of our science book to each student. They can find it in their Google Drive.

Social Studies: We learned today that Asians migrated to America from Russia over a land bridge that appeared in the past when ocean levels were lower.

Notes:

• Our BioBlitz field trip in Friday, September 23 from 9:15-2:30. Students will need a sack lunch and a blanket (optional). We can take a few chaperones, but please have the volunteer form completed and turned in to the office if interested.
• Here is important information from the chromebook meeting. If you are purchasing insurance, please do that by September 21.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View links to all the websites we use in class.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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