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Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: This is a reading skills week. Students worked on MobyMax Reading Stories today.

Writing: We talked about writing moment by moment action, instead of skipping over a lot of action details. We starting writing a scene as a class with moment by moment action. Here’s what we wrote together:

I was walking down the street to my grandma’s. I turned the corner and saw a creepy house. It had holes in the roof and the windows were cracked. The door was hanging by one hinge. On the roof, I thought I saw a shadowy figure. It made me shiver. But I was so tempted to explore this eerie dwelling.

I crept down the driveway toward the steps. When I got closer, I noticed it was dimly lit, and I could barely see the door. I saw some lights flickering inside the windows.

I stepped on the stairs, and one of them broke. My foot fell into the hole and I felt something was touching my foot.

“Ow!” I screamed. “What has got my foot?”

I tried to pull my foot out of the hole, and my shoe came off. I bent down, reached my hand in to the hole, and I grabbed my shoe. I pulled it out of the whole and put it back on.

“What was down there?” I said. “‘I’m so glad I got my shoe back. My dad would ground me if I came back with only one shoe!” I said to myself.

Students also worked on drafting for a final day in class. A personal narrative is due Monday, November 6. Your student should be finished drafting tonight with about a full page. Homework is to work on writing for 15 minutes and to finish drafting.

Math: Students worked on patterns and other skills at MobyMax Math or Khan Academy. Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: None today due to extra time with social studies.

Social Studies: We learned about levels of government. We also learned that the federal government has certain powers, the state government has certain powers, and some powers are shared. We took notes about how government affects us. Homework is to finish the How does government affect me? page if not finished from class.

Character Strength: We are learning about Creativity this week.

Notes:

• Our class is having a Hawaiian Beach Bash on Friday, November 3, from 12:30-3:30. Here’s our list if you can you volunteer, donate, or help out?
• Have you helped your student plan a Daily Homework Time? This is a daily (Monday through Thursday) time of 40 minutes for students to work on math, writing, math facts, cursive, or other homework. Maybe it’s right after school, or at 5 pm, or right after dinner. The idea is that your student is working each day on something to make them smarter. Here is a sample schedule and more ideas.
• 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 Jupiter Ed.

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

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Students completed a STAR Reading test today.

Writing: We talked about the three main ingredients of every story:

• People (characters): including talking, action, and visual details
• Places (settings): including visual details to show them
• Plot: the action details of the story.

Students also worked on drafting. A personal narrative is due Monday, November 6. Your student should be drafting with over half a page by now. Homework is to work on writing for 15 minutes if your student needs to catch up.

Math: We practiced finding patterns in tables. Students also worked on patterns and other skills at MobyMax Math or Khan Academy. Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We watched some video clips about the sun, its features, and how it compares to other stars.

Social Studies: None today due to extra time with science.

Character Strength: We are learning about Creativity this week.

Notes:

• Book orders are due Friday. You can order online.
• Our class is having a Hawaiian Beach Bash on Friday, November 3, from 12:30-3:30. Here’s our list if you can you volunteer, donate, or help out? We also need someone that can coordinate the pizza (finding a deal, ordering, arranging for pickup or delivery). If you can do that, please contact me.
• Have you helped your student plan a Daily Homework Time? This is a daily (Monday through Thursday) time of 40 minutes for students to work on math, writing, math facts, cursive, or other homework. Maybe it’s right after school, or at 5 pm, or right after dinner. The idea is that your student is working each day on something to make them smarter. Here is a sample schedule and more ideas.
• 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 Jupiter Ed.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 16-18 are available and were due today.

Reading: We reviewed our class average reading level and set a yearly goal today. We’ll be taking a STAR Reading test on Monday to measure our progress so far. Students also worked on MobyMax Reading Stories today.

Writing: We reviewed the idea of including talking, action, and visual details in all parts of a story. Students also worked on drafting. A personal narrative is due Monday, November 6. Your student should be drafting with about half a page by now. Homework is to work on writing for 15 minutes if your student needs to catch up.

Math: Students used MobyMax to practice math skills today. Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy if your student needs to.

Science: We reviewed the Investigation Review about the sun.

Social Studies: We graded the Analyzing the Government of Egbonia note page and reviewed what a republic and constitutional government is like.

Character Strength: We are learning about Teamwork this week.

Notes:

• Have you helped your student plan a Daily Homework Time? This is a daily (Monday through Thursday) time of 40 minutes for students to work on math, writing, math facts, cursive, or other homework. Maybe it’s right after school, or at 5 pm, or right after dinner. The idea is that your student is working each day on something to make them smarter. Here is a sample schedule and more ideas.
• 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 Jupiter Ed.

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 worksheet pp. 16-18 are available and are due Friday.

Reading: Today we read an article about how businesses are not just making money, but helping others.

Writing: We reviewed the idea that good stories have talking, action, and visual details in them. Students also worked on prewriting conferences today by commenting on a partner’s prewriting.

A personal narrative is due Monday, November 6. Your student should be fininshed with prewriting by now. Homework is to work on writing for 15 minutes.

Math: Students completed a STAR Math test today. Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We wrote notes in our minibooks about the moon and earth, focusing on what we’ve learned about gravity, mass, matter, and weight.

Social Studies: Today was a leadership lesson about class jobs. We finished making a leadership job schedule that each time can use to divide up team jobs.

Character Strength: We are learning about Teamwork this week.

Notes:

• The Writing page has recently been updated to include links to student examples of writing from my past classes. Students can use these as targets to aim for, or mirrors to reflect upon their own writing.
• Have you helped your student plan a Daily Homework Time? This is a daily (Monday through Thursday) time of 40 minutes for students to work on math, writing, math facts, cursive, or other homework. Maybe it’s right after school, or at 5 pm, or right after dinner. The idea is that your student is working each day on something to make them smarter. Here is a sample schedule and more ideas.
• 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 Jupiter Ed.

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

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

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 16-18 are available and are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading skills practice day using MobyMax Foundational Reading.

Writing: We looked at an example of quality writing from a fourth grader in a previous class of mine. We noticed that it had a lot of dialogue, a lot of moment by moment action, it focused on just a small time, and it had some visual details. Other examples of student writing from my 4th and 5th grade classes can be found on the Writing page.

Students also worked on prewriting today. A personal narrative is due Monday, November 6. Your student should be prewriting by now, working on a beginning, middle, and end chart. Homework is to work on writing for 15 minutes and to finish prewriting.

Math: None today. We used this time to design some pixel art for our Fall Festival next week. Ask your student to show you their design!

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We predicted the size of the sun and its distance compared to earth. If the sun were the size of a beach ball, the earth would be a Skittle, and they would be an entire soccer field apart!

Social Studies: We read about a fictional county with a terrible government. Students worked in teams to analyze its government. Homework is to finish the Analyzing the Government of Egbonia page if not done in class.

Character Strength: We are learning about Teamwork this week.

Notes:

• The Writing page has recently been updated to include links to student examples of writing from my past classes. Students can use these as targets to aim for, or mirrors to reflect upon their own writing.
• Have you helped your student plan a Daily Homework Time? This is a daily (Monday through Thursday) time of 40 minutes for students to work on math, writing, math facts, cursive, or other homework. Maybe it’s right after school, or at 5 pm, or right after dinner. The idea is that your student is working each day on something to make them smarter. Here is a sample schedule and more ideas.
• 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 Jupiter Ed.

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