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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Monday.

Reading: Today was our reading skills practice time using MobyMax Reading.

Writing: We talked about using details to prove general statements. Without details, a reader will think the story is floaty, spacey or general-feeling.

Students also continued to draft their current story. The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft and getting reading to revise at this time.

Math: Today was our math skills practice time.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We continued to learn about economic activities of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 10

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our new 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: Today we learned about homophones and homographs:

• A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word, but a different spelling or meaning. Example: made/maid.
• A homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word, but a different sound or meaning. Example: wind (The wind blows.)/wind (Wind the clock).

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Friday.

Reading: We practiced visualizing as a reading strategy by drawing illustrations that matched text from a story.

Writing: Students created digital writing portfolios in their Google Docs and started to organize their writing.

Students also continued to draft their current story. The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft at this time.

Math: We continued to review special quotients today.

Science: We finished reviewing our last science experiment about the force of magnet through different materials. We learned that a magnet’s force can attract through many different materials, as long as the materials are thin enough and not magnetic.

Social Studies: None today due to extra science time.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 5
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 10

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our new 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: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Friday.

Reading: None today due to art.

Writing: We talked about using three kinds of details in all parts of a story:

• Visual details show what places, characters and important objects look like.
• Action details show how the characters act.
• Dialogue shows was the characters say to each other.

A well-written story will include these details over and over in every part of the story.

Students also continued to draft their current story. The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft at this time.

Math: We reviewed special quotients today. Homework is to finish Journal P1-8.

Science: We started to review our last science experiment about the force of magnet through different materials.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 6

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our new 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: Today was a spelling and skill test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Friday.

Reading: We practiced making connections as a reading strategy. We also talked about how good readers visualize a story by picturing in their mind what is happening.

Writing: Today was a drafting work day.

The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative, which is a personal story or memory that involves the author. It is not fictional or made-up. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be drafting at this time.

Math: We reviewed multiplication and division fact families and practiced multiplication and division facts. Homework is to finish Journal P1-7.

Science: Students worked on the “Pulling Through” experiment. Homework is to finish the experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We continued to research economic activities and resources of Michigan. Homework is to finish boxes 1-4 of the Michigan Economy question cards.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 2
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 4

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• Visit our new 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 reviewed short and long vowel sounds today. This will be the skill tested on tomorrow’s spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 18-23 are due on Friday.

Reading: We practiced making connections as a reading strategy. A reader makes a connection the book reminds them of something, such as themselves, another book, a TV show, or another person.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

The second piece of writing for the year is another personal narrative, which is a personal story or memory that involves the author. It is not fictional or made-up. This personal narrative is due Friday, October 11. Your student should be drafting at this time.

Math: We practiced drawing pictures to help us solve division word problems. Homework is to finish Journal P1-6.

Science: Students worked on a science experiment to test if a magnet’s force can go through different materials.

Social Studies: We started to research economic activities and resources of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 11. This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• After School Detention is on Monday, September 30 from 4-6 pm for students with missing work or unfinished tasks.
• Visit our new 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.