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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No cursive assignment this week.

Reading: Students received new Literature Circles book groups and they planned the number of pages to read each day throughout the book.

Writing: Students completed editing conferences today, looking for mistakes with spelling, capitals, sentence sense, paragraphs, and editing for dialogue.

Today was the last school work day for this piece. If your student has more editing or publishing work to do, or if they are behind schedule and aren’t yet done with their draft, your student will need to work this week and weekend to finish up. Homework is to finish this story. A fiction story will be due Monday, November 30.

Math: We practiced rounding and place value skills today using MobyMax Math.

Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: Students completed an experiment to test what types of materials electricity can move through. Homework is to finish the Conductors and Insulators experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We continued working on our Market Day website today, getting it ready for Market Day next week. Congratulations to Skylar, who was chosen as webmaster. We’ll start adding web pages tomorrow.

Notes:

• Our Michigan Capitol and Museum trip is on December 1.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No cursive assignment this week.

Reading: None today due to Eagle Talk and art.

Writing: We talked about the correct way to punctuate dialogue:

• “Use quotation marks,” said Mr. Howd.
• “And don’t forget the comma before the speaker tag,” he added.

Today was the last revising day for this piece. Your student should be nearly done with adding new details, taking out parts that don’t match, or with changing words or ideas. A fiction story will be due Monday, November 30.

Math: We practiced rounding today. Students used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: We reviewed our last experiment and learned about open and closed circuits. Closed circuits are connected together, so electricity can flow. Open circuits have an opening, or gap, that stops electricity from flowing.

Social Studies: We started working on Market Day today. We are creating a Market Day website to showcase products. The class also formed advertising agencies that will write advertisements, take pictures, and design the website. The other fourth grade classes are making products and will hire our class to advertise their products.

Notes:

• Our Michigan Capitol and Museum trip is on December 1.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 25-27 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading skills and AR practice time.

Writing: Today students completed revising conferences. Students also worked on revising; your student should be going back to their draft to add new details, to take out parts that don’t match, or to change words or ideas. A fiction story will be due Monday, November 30.

Math: We continued to work on place value skills and rounding today. Students used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We practiced identifying positive (rewards, sales, discounts) and negative (fines, fees) incentives.

Notes:

• Our Michigan Capitol and Museum trip is on December 1.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 25-27 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a preview of new Literature Circles books. Students will start new books next week.

Writing: We talked about making characters come to life by giving them realistic dialogue to say, and by giving them action details to show how they act.

Students also worked on revising; your student should be going back to their draft to add new details, to take out parts that don’t match, or to change words or ideas. A fiction story will be due Monday, November 30.

Math: We continued to work on place value skills today, and some students started to work on rounding. Students used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

Science: Students worked on a science experiment about making a switch to control a circuit. Homework is to finish the On or Off experiment if not done in class.

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

Notes:

• Our Michigan Capitol and Museum trip is on December 1.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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

Spelling: We practiced using homographs correctly. Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and possibly different pronunciations. Can you read these homographs correctly the first time?

• Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
• When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
• I did not object to the object.
• The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
• There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
• They were too close to the door to close it.
• 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

Here are more homophones!

Cursive: Cursive pp. 25-27 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today the final groups performed their Literature Circles Reader’s Theatre projects. The groups practiced reading with good speed, tone, accuracy, and volume.

Writing: We continued to learn about breaking a text into paragraphs. Today was also the first revising day; your student should be going back to their draft to add new details, take out parts that don’t match, or to change words or ideas. A fiction story will be due Monday, November 30.

Math: We practiced comparing and ordering numbers using place value. Students also used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.

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

Social Studies: Students completed a MiniQuiz about supply, demand, competition, and price, and we also started to learn about positive and negative incentives. Homework is to finish the Incentives and You notes page if not done in class.

Notes:

• Our Michigan Capitol and Museum trip is on December 1.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.

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