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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: No cursive assignment this week.

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

These four words help a student plan out the character of the story (somebody), what they want, what is preventing them from getting what they want (the problem) and what the character does to solve the problem.

Students used these words to start prewriting their next story.

A fiction story is due Sunday, December 15. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be prewriting right now.

Math: Students coached each other to work on unfinished multiplication with regrouping skills. We will take a unit test over this topic tomorrow. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We previewed an upcoming book about animal senses. Homework is to finish notebook p. 8 if not done in class.

Social Studies: None today due to a survey about safety.

Character Strength: We are learning about gratitude this week.

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 12. Students need to arrive to school at 7:15 am and will need a sack lunch with disposable containers. We still need some chaperones. Find more details or request to be a chaperone here.
• Have you started a Daily Homework Time with your student? If homework causes tears or battles, or if you have had to deal with missing assignments or low grades, read more about Daily Homework Time and start one with your student. It will help!
• The pizza kit fundraiser for our Mackinac trip is happening right now. Money and order forms are due December 3.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 33-35 were due today.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We practiced editing for run-on sentences again today. We also learned how to use a spelling and grammar checker in Google Docs to check for mistakes.

Students also worked on publishing today by giving their story a title, deleting prewriting, and resolving comments to make the writing ready to read.

A fiction story is due Sunday, November 24. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be finishing up their story this weekend.

Math: We practiced multiplying with regrouping today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: None today due to extra social studies.

Social Studies: We finished reading about how our government uses checks and balances to limit the power of each branch.

Character Strength: We are learning about gratitude this week.

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 12. Students need to arrive to school at 7:15 am and will need a sack lunch with disposable containers. We still need some chaperones. Find more details or request to be a chaperone here.
• Have you started a Daily Homework Time with your student? If homework causes tears or battles, or if you have had to deal with missing assignments or low grades, read more about Daily Homework Time and start one with your student. It will help!
• The pizza kit fundraiser for our Mackinac trip is happening right now. Money and order forms are due December 3.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 33-35 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We practiced editing for run-on sentences.

Students also worked on editing today.

A fiction story is due Sunday, November 24. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be editing for spelling, capitals, sentence sense, paragraphs, and other mistakes at this point.

Math: We practiced multiplying without regrouping today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy. Our class mastery level has been improving! We will be at 80% soon, and more people have been working at home to catch up!

Science: We completed an experiment about using our senses to get information about an object hidden in a canister.

Social Studies: None today due to extra time with science.

Character Strength: We are learning about gratitude this week.

Notes:

• Have you started a Daily Homework Time with your student? If homework causes tears or battles, or if you have had to deal with missing assignments or low grades, read more about Daily Homework Time and start one with your student. It will help!
• The pizza kit fundraiser for our Mackinac trip is happening right now. Money and order forms are due December 3.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 33-35 are due Friday.

Reading: We finished reading an article about animal adaptations. We also talked about summarizing, main idea, and key details as reading strategies.

Writing: Students completed editing conferences today by writing comments to a partner.

Students also worked on editing their own writing.

A fiction story is due Sunday, November 24. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be editing for spelling, capitals, sentence sense, paragraphs, and other mistakes at this point.

Math: We practiced multiplying using partial products today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy. Our class mastery level is 70%. We are getting closer to our goal of 96%. But 12 students are under 60% mastery, meaning that many students have missing and unfinished skills. Ask your student to show you if they have their skills completed.

Science: We talked about how animals in a rain forest might use their senses to get information about their environment.

Social Studies: We learned about how the legislative branch can check the power of the President by approving his appointments.

Character Strength: We are learning about gratitude this week.

Notes:

• Have you started a Daily Homework Time with your student? If homework causes tears or battles, or if you have had to deal with missing assignments or low grades, read more about Daily Homework Time and start one with your student. It will help!
• The pizza kit fundraiser for our Mackinac trip is happening right now. Money and order forms are due December 3.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: We reviewed common patterns for the /k/ sound. This will be the skill tested in tomorrow’s spelling test. If your student hasn’t been practicing their Words to Learn list, it might be too late for tomorrow’s test, but you could start having your student plan out when they will practice their spelling words a few times a week.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 33-35 are due Friday.

Reading: We started reading an article about animal adaptations.

Writing: We practiced varying sentence beginnings so that sentences are starting with different words, not the same word over and over.

Students also started editing.

A fiction story is due Sunday, November 24. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be editing for spelling, capitals, sentence sense, paragraphs, and other mistakes at this point.

Math: We practiced estimating products multiplying using rounding today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We learned more about our new topic of vision and light. Our study problem is about how geckos see in the dark and how too much light could harm them.

Social Studies: Students completed a MiniQuiz today about branches of government.

Character Strength: We are learning about gratitude this week.

Notes:

• Have you started a Daily Homework Time with your student? If homework causes tears or battles, or if you have had to deal with missing assignments or low grades, read more about Daily Homework Time and start one with your student. It will help!
• The pizza kit fundraiser for our Mackinac trip is happening right now. Money and order forms are due December 3.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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