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Spelling: None today due to our Space Fashion Show.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 95-98 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to practicing for the Space Fashion Show.

Writing: Today was the last editing 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. The novel project is due Friday, March 28. Your student should be editing at this point. Look below for more details.

Novel Writing Project 2014

The final piece of the 3rd Marking Period will be our final fiction project of the year. Students will write and publish a novel. Each student will write their own novel, with a word goal minimum of 1,000-3,000 words, based on their reading level (each student’s minimum writing goal is equal to their reading level multiplied by 500). The novels will be written in Google Docs (docs.mrhowd.com) to make use of the word count feature. Final novels will be uploaded to Lulu.com and published as paperback books, which can be purchased for reasonable prices. So yes, students will actually write and publish their own novels. This project is based on the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers program. Here are more details:

• Here are some novels written by former students:
  • One Demi-God’s Story
  • The Secret
  • Space Invaders
  • Lonely with Some Spark
• If friends and family would like to order a paperback version of the book, we will upload the final texts to Lulu.com. Most books will cost between $5 and $10.
• Half of this grade will be if students complete their own, personal word count goal.

Math: None today due to the Space Fashion Show. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: Today was the Space Fashion Show! That for all the family members that could attend. We also had five classes watch our performance. The class did a great job with costumes, information, scripts, and reading with enthusiasm! Check back soon for pictures and a video.

Social Studies: None today due to practicing for the Space Fashion Show.

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): 38

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

Multiplication Madness

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:

• The Read-a-Thon is tomorrow. Bring donations, books, a snack, a drink, a pillow, and a blanket if desired!
• See our St. Patrick’s Wearin’ o’ the Green pics here.
• Feb Factor Valentine’s Party pics.
• View the second marking period report card and third marking period progress report here.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Spelling: We practiced adding suffixes onto words, and remembered that words with silent e, the silent e is dropped for vowel suffixes.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 95-98 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to art.

Writing: Today was the first editing 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. The novel project is due Friday, March 28. Your student should be editing at this point. Look below for more details.

Novel Writing Project 2014

The final piece of the 3rd Marking Period will be our final fiction project of the year. Students will write and publish a novel. Each student will write their own novel, with a word goal minimum of 1,000-3,000 words, based on their reading level (each student’s minimum writing goal is equal to their reading level multiplied by 500). The novels will be written in Google Docs (docs.mrhowd.com) to make use of the word count feature. Final novels will be uploaded to Lulu.com and published as paperback books, which can be purchased for reasonable prices. So yes, students will actually write and publish their own novels. This project is based on the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers program. Here are more details:

• Here are some novels written by former students:
  • One Demi-God’s Story
  • The Secret
  • Space Invaders
  • Lonely with Some Spark
• If friends and family would like to order a paperback version of the book, we will upload the final texts to Lulu.com. Most books will cost between $5 and $10.
• Half of this grade will be if students complete their own, personal word count goal.

Math: The class started the Topic 7 test about multiplication and estimating products. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: Students continued working on their Space Fashion Show scripts today (more details and a sample script). The Space Fashion Show is our final project of our space unit. Students are working in groups to write a fashion show script that tells about the sun, moon, or earth (click here to find your student’s group script). One student from each group will “model” a costume of the sun, moon, or earth. The Space Fashion Show is tomorrow, Thursday, March 27 at 2:oo. Family members are invited! Homework is to finish working on the script and costume; bring the costume tomorrow!

Social Studies: We finished talking about powers of the state and federal government, and students completed a MiniQuiz about this topic.

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): 32

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

Multiplication Madness

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:

• See our St. Patrick’s Wearin’ o’ the Green pics here.
• Feb Factor Valentine’s Party pics.
• View the second marking period report card and third marking period progress report here.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Spelling: We reviewed the idea that some words have silent letters. We’ll have a final spelling test of the third marking period on Friday.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 95-98 are due Friday.

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

Writing: Today was the final revising 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. The novel project is due Friday, March 28. Your student should be revising at this point and ready to start editing tomorrow. Look below for more details.

Novel Writing Project 2014

The final piece of the 3rd Marking Period will be our final fiction project of the year. Students will write and publish a novel. Each student will write their own novel, with a word goal minimum of 1,000-3,000 words, based on their reading level (each student’s minimum writing goal is equal to their reading level multiplied by 500). The novels will be written in Google Docs (docs.mrhowd.com) to make use of the word count feature. Final novels will be uploaded to Lulu.com and published as paperback books, which can be purchased for reasonable prices. So yes, students will actually write and publish their own novels. This project is based on the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers program. Here are more details:

• Here are some novels written by former students:
  • One Demi-God’s Story
  • The Secret
  • Space Invaders
  • Lonely with Some Spark
• If friends and family would like to order a paperback version of the book, we will upload the final texts to Lulu.com. Most books will cost between $5 and $10.
• Half of this grade will be if students complete their own, personal word count goal.

Math: Today was a math practice day with a guest teacher using MobyMax Math. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: Students continued working on their Space Fashion Show scripts today (more details and a sample script). The Space Fashion Show is our final project of our space unit. Students are working in groups to write a fashion show script that tells about the sun, moon, or earth (click here to find your student’s group script). One student from each group will “model” a costume of the sun, moon, or earth. The Space Fashion Show is Thursday, March 27 at 2:oo. Family members are invited!

Social Studies: We worked in groups to think about some problems that would happen if the powers of the state and federal government were mixed up.

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): 25

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

Multiplication Madness

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:

• See our St. Patrick’s Wearin’ o’ the Green pics here.
• Feb Factor Valentine’s Party pics.
• View the second marking period report card and third marking period progress report here.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Originally posted 2014-03-25 17:24:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Spelling: We practiced common spelling patterns for the /ou/ sound: ow and ou.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 95-98 are due Friday.

Reading: Final groups performed their Literature Circles plays to the class today.

Writing: Today was the first revising 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. The novel project is due Friday, March 28. Your student should be revising at this point. Look below for more details.

Novel Writing Project 2014

The final piece of the 3rd Marking Period will be our final fiction project of the year. Students will write and publish a novel. Each student will write their own novel, with a word goal minimum of 1,000-3,000 words, based on their reading level (each student’s minimum writing goal is equal to their reading level multiplied by 500). The novels will be written in Google Docs (docs.mrhowd.com) to make use of the word count feature. Final novels will be uploaded to Lulu.com and published as paperback books, which can be purchased for reasonable prices. So yes, students will actually write and publish their own novels. This project is based on the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers program. Here are more details:

• Here are some novels written by former students:
  • One Demi-God’s Story
  • The Secret
  • Space Invaders
  • Lonely with Some Spark
• If friends and family would like to order a paperback version of the book, we will upload the final texts to Lulu.com. Most books will cost between $5 and $10.
• Half of this grade will be if students complete their own, personal word count goal.

Math: We practiced identifying hidden questions in multistep word problems. Journal P7-5 corresponds. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: Students continued working on their Space Fashion Show scripts today (more details and a sample script). The Space Fashion Show is our final project of our space unit. Students are working in groups to write a fashion show script that tells about the sun, moon, or earth. One student from each group will “model” a costume of the sun, moon, or earth. The Space Fashion Show is Thursday, March 27 at 2:oo. Family members are invited!

Social Studies: Students worked in groups to make a comparison map of powers of the state and federal government, and shared powers.

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): 19

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

Multiplication Madness

We have one more game tomorrow to see if we get in the tournament; the top four teams advance. Keep practicing!

Notes:

• See our St. Patrick’s Wearin’ o’ the Green pics here.
• Feb Factor Valentine’s Party pics.
• View the second marking period report card and third marking period progress report here.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Spelling: Students worked on making Words to Learn lists from missed spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 95-98 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to finishing some surveys from our Think! Energy assembly this week.

Writing: Today was the final drafting day for the novel project. Each student has a daily writing goal of 100-300 words, and your student should be at 100% complete by Monday! Ask your student or check StudentVue to see how much your student has done so far. The novel project is due Friday, March 28. Your student should be drafting at this point, with the goal of finishing the draft by before Monday. Look below for more details.

Novel Writing Project 2014

The final piece of the 3rd Marking Period will be our final fiction project of the year. Students will write and publish a novel. Each student will write their own novel, with a word goal minimum of 1,000-3,000 words, based on their reading level (each student’s minimum writing goal is equal to their reading level multiplied by 500). The novels will be written in Google Docs (docs.mrhowd.com) to make use of the word count feature. Final novels will be uploaded to Lulu.com and published as paperback books, which can be purchased for reasonable prices. So yes, students will actually write and publish their own novels. This project is based on the National Novel Writing Month Young Writers program. Here are more details:

• Here are some novels written by former students:
  • One Demi-God’s Story
  • The Secret
  • Space Invaders
  • Lonely with Some Spark
• If friends and family would like to order a paperback version of the book, we will upload the final texts to Lulu.com. Most books will cost between $5 and $10.
• Half of this grade will be if students complete their own, personal word count goal.

Math: Students worked on math skills with a guest teacher using Khan Academy. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for 15 minutes or more.

Science: Students continued working on their Space Fashion Show scrips today (more details and a sample script). The Space Fashion Show is our final project of our space unit. Students are working in groups to write a fashion show script that tells about the sun, moon, or earth. One student from each group will “model” a costume of the sun, moon, or earth. The Space Fashion Show is Thursday, March 27 at 2:oo. Family members are invited!

Social Studies: We used this PBS Kids Government website to learn that local, state, and federal governments all help provide and pay for schools, libraries, transportation, police, and parks.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2
• Hours with no magnets (best: 73): 22

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

Multiplication Madness

We got our second win today! We have to games left to earn a spot in the tournament; the top four teams advance. Keep practicing!

Notes:

• See our St. Patrick’s Wearin’ o’ the Green pics here.
• Feb Factor Valentine’s Party pics.
• View the second marking period report card and third marking period progress report here.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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