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Spelling: We practiced the homophones there/their/they’re today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 46-48 are due Monday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on identifying unknown words as a reading strategy.

Writing: We started to review the idea that a writer should create realistic sounding characters by adding talking, action, and visual details. Poor behavior choices in class misused much of our work time today. Homework is to prewrite for at least 15 minutes.

Our next piece of writing is another fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be prewriting at this time.

Math: We practiced comparing numbers by looking at the place values of the numbers. Students also practiced math skills using MobyMax today.

Science: We reviewed electrical conductors and insulators today.

Social Studies: We reviewed incentives and practiced identifying positive and negative incentives.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 5. At this time, we have filled our chaperone spaces.
• 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 identifying homophones today, which are words that sound the same, but have a different meaning and spelling. Examples: shown/shone, chews/choose, through/threw, witch/which.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 46-48 are due Monday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students started prewriting for our next piece of writing by creating a table with three columns in their document. Students could prewrite by planning the beginning, middle, and end, or the people, places, and problems of the story.

Our next piece of writing is another fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be prewriting at this time.

Math: We practiced identifying the value of a digit ( in the number 734, the 7  is worth 700). We also talked about how each place value is 10 times larger than the value to the right (the hundreds place is 10 times more than the tens place, and the tens place is 10 times more than the ones place). Journal P3-2 is the corresponding journal page. We also worked on place value today using Khan Academy.

Science: Students finished testing materials to discover conductors and insulators. Homework is to finish final notes on this experiment.

Social Studies: We started learning that incentives motivate people to make choices, and there are positive and negative incentives. Homework is to finish the Incentives and You notes page started in class.

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 (Last time: 22): 3

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

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 5. At this time, we have filled our chaperone spaces.
• 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: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 43-45 are due Monday.

Reading: Today was are reading skills practice day using MobyMax Reading.

Writing: Students worked on publishing their fiction story today.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, November 25 (new date). Your student should be publishing at this time.

Math: Students practiced math skills using MobyMax today. We also worked on place value today using Khan Academy.

Science: We learned that electrical conductors allow electricity to move through them, and insulators block the flow of electricity. We started an experiment to determine which materials are conductors and insulators.

Social Studies: Students completed a MiniQuiz today about supply, demand, price, and substitute goods.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 1
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 5
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 22): 3

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

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 5. At this time, we have filled our chaperone spaces.
• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 43-45 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to practicing for the fourth grade musical.

Writing: Students worked on editing conferences today.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, November 25 (new date). Your student should be editing at this time.

We have been working on this writing piece for three weeks, but some students have a very small amount of work done. You might want to check with your student and have them show you their current writing piece. If three weeks worth of work isn’t evident, this weekend would be a good time to catch up. And it would take more than an hour. If a student works just 15 minutes a day at school, and again at home, that adds up to 6 hours of work. And that’s just a minimum amount. A quality piece of writing would take more like 8 hours. Some students might need to put in 6 hours of work this weekend.

Math: None today due to practicing for the fourth grade musical.

Science: We learned that open circuits are disconnected and don’t let electricity flow. Closed circuits are connected and the electricity can flow. Switches can be used to open and close circuits.

Social Studies: We learned more about how supply, demand, price and competition are connected. Students read and commented on an article about these ideas. Here’s the article. Take a look at the comments and feel free to add some of your own ideas or reply to your student’s comments!

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 1
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 3
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 22): 3

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

Notes:

• The Fourth Grade Musical is tonight, Thursday, November 21 at 7:30 pm. Students should meet in class no later than 7:15 pm. Dress for the concert is business casual; no jeans or t-shirts, please.
• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 5. At this time, we have filled our chaperone spaces.
• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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

Spelling: We learned that digraphs are when two consonants are combined to make a new sound. We practiced these digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch, ph, as in the words, show, there, what, chair, phone.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 43-45 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on determining importance as a reading strategy.

Writing: We learned about using choice adjectives to help describe in writing. Students also started editing their writing.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, November 25 (new date). Your students should be editing at this time.

Math: We practiced representing the place value of numbers using pictures of blocks, with numbers, and with expanded notation. Journal P3-1 corresponds to our practice in class. Students also used MobyMax to work on their current math skills.

Science: None today due to practicing for the fourth grade musical.

Social Studies: None today due to practicing for the fourth grade musical.

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 (Last time: 22): 3
  

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

Notes:

• The Fourth Grade Musical is this Thursday, November 21 at 7:30 pm. Students will meet in class no later than 7:15 pm. Dress for the concert is business casual; no jeans or t-shirts, please.
• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is Thursday, December 5. At this time, we have filled our chaperone spaces.
• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

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