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Spelling: We practiced common spelling patterns for the /k/ sound: k, ck, qu, ch, c.

Reading: Students practiced their Literature Circles Reader’s Theatre plays today.

Writing: None today due to our technology time. Our next piece of writing will be a fiction piece.

Math: We practiced writing rules from tables today. Students also practiced math skills using MobyMax Math. Homework is to work on MobyMax Math or finish Journal P2-4.

Science: Students completed an experiment today about trying to light a lightbulb using one battery and one wire.

Social Studies: Students completed a miniquiz today about features of a market economy. We also started to learn about how money, and goods and services, flow in an economy in a circular pattern from people, to businesses, and back to people.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 0

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

Notes:

• Fall Parent Teacher Conferences are next Tuesday through Thursday. View or change your conference time.
• 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.
• View Hawaiian Beach Bash photos and videos.

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

Spelling: None on Fridays.

Reading: Students practiced reading skills using MobyMax today.

Writing: Students worked on publishing their third writing piece of the marking period, a slightly fictionalized personal narrative. Today was the final work day.

Math: Students practiced math skills using Khan Academy today.

Science: Students completed a magnetism topic miniquiz today.

Social Studies: None today due to our math skills practice time.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2

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

Notes:

• 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.
• View Hawaiian Beach Bash photos and videos.

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

Today was our Hawaiian Beach Bash! Students surfed, tossed foam noodles, ate pineapple slices, danced to the Beach Boys, and tried to win the hula hoop contest! Later, it was Hawaiian pizza, Capri Suns and fruit kabobs! Thanks to all the families that helped with food, donations, decorations, games, setup and cleanup! Our party was totally tubular because of everyone’s help! Here’s a sneak peak at some pictures and videos from the party today!

Spelling: We talked about how it is easier to spell larger words by breaking the words into syllables.

Reading: Students worked on MobyMax Reading today. We also started working on Literature Circles projects for students to share their books with the class.

Writing: We talked about using verbs that describe action in writing. Instead of saying run, write streak, pelt, zip. Those types of action verbs help the reader to picture what is happening.

Students also completed revising conferences today by posting comments to a partner’s writing piece in Google Docs.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be making final revisions at this time.

Math: We practiced extending tables to identify number patterns. Students also worked on completed math skills in MobyMax.

Science: Students completed an experiment that involved making a compass from a magnetized iron needle floating on water. Students noticed that the needle always pointed in a north-south direction, even if the bowl of water was moved, unless another magnet was near the compass. Homework is to finish the Detecting Directions experiment.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2

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

Notes:

• 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 Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

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

Spelling: We reviewed common /long i/ spelling patterns today and learned that idioms are phrases with a hidden, nonliteral meaning.

Reading: Students completed a fiction reading test today.

Writing: Students completed their writing log for their second personal narrative, noticing bright spots and also areas to improve.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finished revising at this time.

Math: We practiced identifying and extending number patterns. For example, the numbers 17, 19, 21, 23 have the pattern of increasing by 2, so extending the pattern would include the numbers, 25 and 27. Students also worked on completed math skills in Khan Academy related to addition and subtraction. Homework is to work on MobyMax, Khan Academy, or

Science: We learned that a magnet’s force takes the shape of lines as the force moves outward from the magnet. We used iron filings to see that the magnetic lines of force move toward magnets if they are attracting, but the lines move away from magnets that are repelling. We also reviewed the idea that the poles are the ends of a magnet with the strongest area of force, and that while like pole repel, opposite poles attract.

Social Studies: We listed the characteristics of a market economy. Homework is to complete the Prediction Chart started in class about what is produced in a market economy.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1

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

Notes:

• 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 Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

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