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Spelling: Today was a preview of words that will show up on the upcoming spelling test. Here are the spelling words for the year. Each test will have 20 words from this list. See the Spelling page for more details on how spelling will work this year.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Friday. This week’s assignment will be due next Friday. Looking for some cursive practice pages to kick start things? The Cursive page has some.

Reading: Today students completed a STAR Reading test.

Writing: We talked about focusing in writing. It’s too hard to write about a whole vacation or a long period of time. A writer can’t write about everything. The trick is to focus on the best part. For example, a student might want to write about Christmas break, but focus on the best part by zooming in on the best part: Christmas break –> New Year’s Day –> watching a movie at night –> the last 20 minutes of the moving when the ball is dropping. Focusing on the best part will let the writer spend their time and energy on the parts that matter most.

Students also started drafting their personal narrative today. Your student should have their draft started in Google Docs. Have them get their chromebook and show you what they have done so far. A personal narrative is due Monday, September 24.  Homework is continue drafting for 15 minutes.

Math: We started our topic about place value by practicing at MobyMax Math. Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We started a pretest about how to restore a damaged ecosystem.

Social Studies: None today due to extra writing.

Character Strength: This week we are reviewing the #OtherPeopleMatter mindset this week. This is about five things:

1. Look for the good in others.
2. Know your words and actions affect others.
3. Cheer for the success of others.
4. Support others when they struggle.
5. Give others your attention.

Notes:

• School Supply list
• Chromebook insurance payments are due September 27.
• Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
• Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
• More class information…
  • About MrHowd.com
  • Class Info
  • Contact Mr. Howd
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Subjects
  • Subscribe to MrHowd.com for daily class email updates
  • Volunteering information, including forms to be filled out if you would like to volunteer in class or chaperone a field trip
  • Sign up for a fall conference

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 Friday. This week’s assignment will be due next Friday.

Reading: Today we practiced signing in to STAR Reading. We’ll take a STAR test this week.

Writing: We organized our Google Drive to prepare for writing this year. Students from last year organized their 4th grade writing into a folder to save. New students created a digital portfolio to store writing projects in for this year. A personal narrative is due Monday, September 24.  Homework is to select a personal memory to write about.

Math: We worked on a STAR Math test today. Homework assignments this year in math will be to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Due to Patriot Day, we talked about the history of the September 11 events.

Character Strength: This week we are reviewing the #OtherPeopleMatter mindset this week. This is about five things:

1. Look for the good in others.
2. Know your words and actions affect others.
3. Cheer for the success of others.
4. Support others when they struggle.
5. Give others your attention.

Notes:

• School Supply list
• Chromebook insurance payments are due September 27.
• Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
• Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
• More class information…
  • About MrHowd.com
  • Class Info
  • Contact Mr. Howd
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Subjects
  • Subscribe to MrHowd.com for daily class email updates
  • Volunteering information, including forms to be filled out if you would like to volunteer in class or chaperone a field trip
  • Sign up for a fall conference

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 Friday. This week’s assignment will be due next Friday.

Reading: Today was library orientation. Students reviewed library procedures and checked out books.

Writing: Our first writing project of the year is a personal narrative, which is a personal memory of the student. We started this project by prewriting a list of topics that each person knows about. We called this list an Authority List. We’ll use this list to select a topic of writing. A personal narrative is due Friday, September 21.  Homework is to think about a writing topic.

Math: We practiced fact fluency and reviewed some 4th grade math skills using. Homework assignments this year in math will be to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We started our first topic about ecosystem restoration.

Social Studies: We started our first topic about who the first people in American were and how they survived using their environment.

Character Strength: This week we are reviewing the #OtherPeopleMatter mindset. This is about five things:

1. Look for the good in others.
2. Know your words and actions affect others.
3. Cheer for the success of others.
4. Support others when they struggle.
5. Give others your attention.

Notes:

• School Supply list
• Chromebook insurance payments are due September 27.
• Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
• Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
• More class information…
  • About MrHowd.com
  • Class Info
  • Contact Mr. Howd
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Subjects
  • Subscribe to MrHowd.com for daily class email updates
  • Volunteering information, including forms to be filled out if you would like to volunteer in class or chaperone a field trip
  • Sign up for a fall conference

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

Highlights from today:

• Today was Team Day! The students participated in several team-building activities that involved work together to reach a goal. Overall, the class did well and much better than last year!
• We decided on our class agreement:
  • Turn and look at the speaker.
  • Use your time wisely.
  • Follow directions.
  • Talk at the right time.
  • Keep pace with others.
• We reviewed our class behavior policy.
• We finished playing a game called Win as Much as You Can. In this game, when teams agree to work together, everyone wins, but when some teams try to “get ahead” of the others, not only do some teams lose, but the whole class loses out. This game has 10 rounds and it took until the final round before the class started to think about how everyone could win, not just a few. We played again and learned from our mistakes. We learned that we need to put others first rather than try to be first all the time.

Team Day 2018

9 new photos · Album by Christian Howd

Notes:

• School Supply list
• Chromebook insurance payments are due September 27.
• Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
• Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
• More class information…
  • About MrHowd.com
  • Class Info
  • Contact Mr. Howd
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Subjects
  • Subscribe to MrHowd.com for daily class email updates
  • Volunteering information, including forms to be filled out if you would like to volunteer in class or chaperone a field trip
  • Sign up for a fall conference

Highlights from today:

• We decided on our class mission, which we updated from last year’s mission:
  • “All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.”
  • We talked about how our mission gets us ready to earn a million more dollars, because college graduates earn a million more dollars in their life compared to high school graduates.
• We decide on some class goals for the year:
  • We will increase both our reading and math levels at least one full year by the end of the year.
• We selected our class rules:
  • “Follow the High Fives.”
• We played collaborative tic tac toe. Each pair of students made six tic tac toe boards. They earned one point each time someone won a game. After playing, we noticed that only one pair earned all six points. When both students were trying to win the same, some games had no winners. After talking about this, some students realized their team could still get all six points even if they didn’t personally win. We played again and every pair earned all six points! They learned that sometimes individuals have to lose so that the team can win. Not everyone can win their way, their idea, their method, their style. It’s about the team, the team, the team!
• We played People Bingo to learn some interesting facts about each other!
• We passed out social studies books, whiteboards, fridge folders (for our leftovers and papers we want to save for a bit).
• Students received a green or yellow folder to use as their writing portfolio. Homework is to decorate the portfolios with drawings, stickers, photos, or cut-out pictures and to return by Thursday, September 13 to be laminated.
• We played a game called Win as Much as You Can. We are in the process of completing it, but so far, the results aren’t good. This a game were selfishness is penalized and selflessness is rewarded, simlar to collaborative tic tac toe. So far, the class is trying to win for themselves and not thinking of the team. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!

Notes:

• Team Day is Friday, September 7 from 9-10:30 am. The class will be completing team-building activities in student groups. We are still looking for family volunteers. Send in a note or contact me if you can help!
• School Supply list
• Chromebook insurance payments are due September 27.
• Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
• Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
• More class information…
  • About MrHowd.com
  • Class Info
  • Contact Mr. Howd
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Subjects
  • Subscribe to MrHowd.com for daily class email updates
  • Volunteering information, including forms to be filled out if you would like to volunteer in class or chaperone a field trip
  • Sign up for a fall conference