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Spelling: We reviewed use of the their/they’re/there/theirs/there’s homophones. This 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 reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on visualizing and determining importance as reading strategies.

Writing: We talked about how students should be able to type at least 100 words each day at school and at home. For this project, that amounts to an entire scene of talking, action, and visual details. If a student types at least this much at school and home each day, they shouldn’t have a problem finishing writing projects.

Students continued to draft their adventure stories. Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write 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 Google Sites. See below for more details.

This project is due Tuesday, January 24. Some ideas and resources are below:

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.

Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes. Your student should be drafting at this point.

Math: We practiced decimal multiplication again today. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or Khan Academy.

Here are some Khan Academy topics we are working on right now for a one more school day:

• Multiply decimals 1
• Multiply decimals 2
• Multiply decimals 3
• MobyMax Decimals lesson

Science: We read about the circulatory system. Homework is to finish the Efficient System note page started in class.

Social Studies: We about how the geography of the English colonies determined why types of jobs settlers had and where the settlements were built.

Notes:

• Have you set 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!
• 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: Today was a reading skills and AR practice day.

Writing: Students created websites in Google Sites and drafted the first page of their adventure story. Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write 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 Google Sites. See below for more details.

This project is due Tuesday, January 24. Some ideas and resources are below:

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.

Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes. Your student should be drafting at this point.

Math: We practiced decimal multiplication again today. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or Khan Academy.

Here are some Khan Academy topics we are working on right now for a couple more days:

• Multiply decimals 1
• Multiply decimals 2
• Multiply decimals 3
• MobyMax Decimals lesson

Science: We read about the muscular system, wrote notes in our notebooks, and started to learn about the circulatory system.

Social Studies: We learned about the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Reyes, Day of the Kings, which is today. The class had gifts left in their shoes by the “Three Kings” and we played a game. The winners of the game were selected to plan a party for our class on February 2.

Notes:

• Have you set 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!
• 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: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students drafted the first page of their adventure story, introducing the main character.  Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write 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 Google Sites. See below for more details.

This project is due Tuesday, January 24. Some ideas and resources are below:

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.

Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes. Your student should be prewriting and planning at this point.

Math: We practiced decimal multiplication today. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or Khan Academy.

Here are some Khan Academy topics we are working on right now:

• Multiply decimals 1
• Multiply decimals 2
• Multiply decimals 3
• MobyMax Decimals lesson

Science: We used MobyMax Science to read about body systems today.

Social Studies: None today due to an assembly.

Notes:

• Have you set 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!
• 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 learned that some English words have foreign language roots. For example, the Latin word vocare means to call. It can be seen in the English words vocal, voice, provoke, vocation. Understanding that the voc- root has something to do with calling or talking helps readers understand unfamiliar English words with the same root.

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 questioning and inferring as reading strategies.

Writing: Students created a mindmap to help prewrite the plot and choices of their next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write 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 Google Sites. See below for more details.

This project is due Tuesday, January 24. Some ideas and resources are below:

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.

Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes. Your student should be prewriting and planning at this point.

Math: We practiced decimal multiplication by converting to fractions, or by multiplying and counting places after the decimal. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or Khan Academy.

Here are some Khan Academy topics we are working on right now:

• Multiply decimals 1
• Multiply decimals 2
• Multiply decimals 3
• MobyMax Decimals lesson

Science: We reviewed the two experiments about the muscular system completed yesterday.

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

Notes:

• Have you set 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!
• 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 practiced common patterns for the /oi/ sound: oi, oy. We that the oi pattern is more common.

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

Reading: None today due to extra time with a science experiment.

Writing: Students worked on prewriting their next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write 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 Google Sites. See below for more details.

This project is due Tuesday, January 24. Students should be prewriting their characters, the plot, the problem to be solved, and the places of the story. Some ideas and resources are below:

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.

Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes. Your student should be prewriting and planning at this point.

Math: We practiced using 100-grid models to place the decimal in decimal multiplication. Homework is to practice math for at least 15 minutes using MobyMax Math or Khan Academy.

Here are some Khan Academy topics your students might have missing:

• Divide by 1-digit numbers (no remainders)
• Zeros in the dividend (no remainders)
• Zeros in the quotient (no remainders)
• Divide with remainders
• Basic multi-digit division
• There are several MobyMax Math division skills that also should be finished at this point.

Science: We completed two experiments about the muscular system. One was about what happens when muscles are overused. Another experiment was about voluntary and involuntary muscles. Homework is to finish the experiment notes started in class.

Social Studies: We started a new topic today about life in the English colonies and learned a little about the life of Ben Franklin.

Notes:

• Have you set 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!
• 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.