Archive for April, 2020

Online activities for Thursday, April 30

Thursday, April 30th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students practiced finding the theme of a story again today and continued to practice theme skills at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Students watched the screencasts recorded by other students of them presenting their research.

Math: Students took a quiz about equivalent fractions and common denominators today and continued to work on fraction skills. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Students read a primary source about the orphan train migration and wrote notes. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Notes:

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

Online activities for Wednesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students practiced finding the theme of a story and then practice theme skills at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Today was our last publishing day for the I-Search project. Students were asked to make a Loom screencast of them presenting their research, and then to share the link on our agenda. We’ll look at the presentations tomorrow! Homework is to finish the screencast if not done yet. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: We worked on finding common denominators today. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: Students practiced encoding and decoding images into binary code. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Social Studies: None today.

Notes:

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

Online activities for Tuesday, April 28

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students learned more about the theme of a text today and practiced reading at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Today was a publishing day for the I-Search project. Students should be making final preparations for finishing their presentation and making it ready for readers. Students will be recording a screencast of themselves presenting it tomorrow.

The I-Search presentation is due Wednesday, April 29. Here are more details about this project. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: We worked on equivalent fractions again today. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Students read a text about movement factors in US history and reasons why people have moved in the past. Homework is to finish the accompanying note page if not done this morning.

Notes:

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

Online activities for Monday, April 27

Monday, April 27th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students are learning about the concept of theme this week. Students watched a video at BrainPop today and took a quiz about theme. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Today was an editing today for the I-Search project. Students commenting on their partner’s presentation and worked on editing.

The I-Search presentation is due Wednesday, April 29. Here are more details about this project. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: We started working on equivalent fractions today. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: We read about human communication today and students wrote some notes about how humans use patterns to communicate. Homework is to finish the note page if not done earlier. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Social Studies: None today.

Notes:

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

Zero Increase Bond

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Here is more about the zero increase bond on the May 5 ballot:

GBCS Zero-Increase Bond Vote May 5th, 2020

We are poised to begin a very exciting journey at Grand Blanc Community Schools. On May 5, 2020, we will ask voters for the third and final piece of ‘The Fut…

Don’t forget to return your absentee ballots!