Category Archive for 'Class activities'

Class activities for Thursday, April 3

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Spelling: Students continued making Words to Learn lists from words missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 99-101 are due Friday. This is the final assignment from the cursive workbook. The remainder of cursive assignments will be ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on questioning as a reading strategy.

 

Writing: Students continued to work on their I-Search projects. Students are researching a topic and will create a digital presentation to share with the school. Students continued to collect research today. The I-Search project is due Friday, April 25.

Math: None today due to working on our Market Day website. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We continued working on the 4th grade Market Day website.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 2
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 5
  • Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Multiplication Madness

WLPCTGB
Johnston701.000
Moul420.672.5
Bell240.334.5
Howd260.255.5
Watkins140.205

Here is our final record. We made it in the tournament! We’ll have a playoff game with Mrs. Bell’s class to determine which seed we are. Keep practicing!

Notes:

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

Class activities for Wednesday, April 2

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Spelling: Students continued making Words to Learn lists from words missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 99-101 are due Friday. This is the final assignment from the cursive workbook. The remainder of cursive assignments will be ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.

Reading: Students planned their daily reading amount in their Literature Circles groups today. We’ll be ready to start reading tomorrow.

Writing: Students continued to work on their I-Search projects. Students are researching a topic and will create a digital presentation to share with the school. Today, students continued to collect information from books and websites. The I-Search project is due Friday, April 25.

Math: Students completed a STAR Math test today. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: None today due to extra social studies time.

Social Studies: Students worked on designing the Market Day website to show the products that will be sold on Market Day. Here is the website we are building.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 1
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2
  • Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Multiplication Madness

WLPCTGB
Johnston701.000
Moul420.672.5
Bell240.334.5
Howd260.255.5
Watkins140.205

Here is our final record. We made it in the tournament! We’ll have a playoff game with Mrs. Bell’s class to determine which seed we are. Keep practicing!

Notes:

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

Class activities for Tuesday, April 1

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

Spelling: Students continued making Words to Learn lists from words missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 99-101 are due Friday. This is the final assignment from the cursive workbook. The remainder of cursive assignments will be ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.

Reading: Students received new Literature Circles books today. We also received the results from our last STAR Reading test:

Writing: Students continued to work on their I-Search projects. Students are researching a topic and will create a digital presentation to share with the school. Students formed research questions today. The I-Search project is due Friday, April 25.

Math: We practiced multiplying two-digit numbers using arrays (click here for an example). Journal P8-1 corresponds. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: To finished watching The Privileged Planet about how the earth is uniquely suited in the universe for life and scientific discovery. Here is the trailer:

Social Studies: None today due to extra time for science. We’ll have extra social studies later this week.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 1
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
  • Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Multiplication Madness

WLPCTGB
Johnston701.000
Moul420.672.5
Bell240.334.5
Howd260.255.5
Watkins140.205

Here is our final record. We made it in the tournament! We’ll have a playoff game with Mrs. Bell’s class to determine which seed we are. Keep practicing!

Notes:

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

Class activities for Monday, March 31

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Spelling: Students started making Words to Learn lists from words missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 99-101 are due Friday. This is the final assignment from the cursive workbook. The remainder of cursive assignments will be ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.

Reading: Students previewed new Literature Circles books today.

Writing: We started a new writing project today called the I-Search project. Students will research a topic and create a digital presentation to share with the school. Students started thinking of possible topics today. The I-Search project is due Friday, April 25.

Math: Students finished the topic 7 math test today. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: To finish our unit on space, we started to watch The Privileged Planet about how the earth is uniquely suited in the universe for life and scientific discovery. Here is the trailer:

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 0
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 0
  • Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 52

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Multiplication Madness

WLPCTGB
Johnston701.000
Moul320.603
Bell240.334.5
Watkins130.254.5
Howd260.255.5

Here is our final record. We’ll have to wait and see what the other classes do with their games to see if we get in the tournament; the top four teams advance. Keep practicing!

Notes:

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

Class activities for Friday, March 28

Friday, March 28th, 2014

Spelling: Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 99-101 are due Friday. This is the final assignment from the cursive workbook. The remainder of cursive assignments will be ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.

Reading: Students completed a STAR Reading test today.

Writing: None today due to the Read-a-Thon. Today was the work day for the novel project. Each student should have reached 100% of their project word count goal by now. Ask your student or check StudentVue to see how much your student has done so far. We’ll be publishing our novels after spring break and they’ll be ready for purchase after that!

Math: None today due to the Read-a-Thon. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: None today due to art.

Social Studies: We started working on Market Day today. Our class will be creating a website and advertisements for the other 4th grade classes making Market Day products.

Behavior Update:

  • Yellow magnets: 0
  • Orange magnets: 0
  • Red magnets: 0
  • STAR Awards: 0
  • Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 0
  • Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 45

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Multiplication Madness

WLPCTGB
Johnston701.000
Moul320.603
Bell240.334.5
Watkins130.254.5
Howd260.255.5

Here is our final record. We’ll have to wait and see what the other classes do with their games to see if we get in the tournament; the top four teams advance. Keep practicing!

Notes:

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