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Spelling: None today due to our trip to the Capitol. We will have a spelling test on Thursday. The skill tested will be about digraphs.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 48-50 are available and due Friday.

Reading: None today due to our trip to the Capitol.

Writing: None today due to our trip to the Capitol.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, December 16. Students should be drafting at this time.

Math: Students completed a MiniQuiz about comparing, ordering and rounding numbers.

Science: None today due to our trip to the Capitol.

Social Studies: None today due to our trip to the Capitol.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum was today. Thanks to all the family members that chaperoned our trip!
• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• 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 practiced writing words with digraphs today. Digraphs are two letters that make one sound, such as the ph in elephant. We will have a spelling test on Thursday. The skill tested will be about digraphs.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 48-50 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students worked on their draft today.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, December 16. Students should be drafting at this time.

Math: None today due to extra time with social studies..

Science: We learned that electromagnets need three parts:

1. A source of electricity
2. A wire coil (solenoid)
3. A magnetic core

Social Studies: We reviewed the idea that it is usually faster and easier to use an assembly line to build products, and to divide the labor up among many workers.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is this tomorrow, December 6. Click the link if you would like to a permission slip or more information.
• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• 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 finished reviewing rules for capitalization:

• Capitalize specific names, places, and titles
• Capitalize days, months, holidays, but not seasons.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 45-47 are available and due Monday.

Reading: None today.

Writing: We talked about developing characters to make them seam real by using dialogue, action, description and the reaction of other characters.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, December 16. Students should be drafting at this time.

Math: None today due to STAR Friday.

Science: We did an experiment to learn that salt water is an electrical conductor, but not pure water. We also made an electromagnet and learned that the strength of the electromagnet increases when more coils of wire are wound around the magnetic core of the electromagnet.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is this Tuesday, December 6. Click the link if you would like to a permission slip or more information.
• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• 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 started to review rules for capitalization. Today, we remembered that specific names are capitalized.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 45-47 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Today was a drafting day in writing.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, December 16. Students should be drafting at this time.

Math: None today due to Bring a Family Member to School Day. Homework  is to play Toss and Talk (a rounding game) with a family member.

Science: None today due to extra time with social studies.

Social Studies: We finished learning about how the auto industry has changed over time.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Check out the McGrath Online Book Fair!
• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is December 6. Click the link if you would like to chaperone.
• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• 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 possessive pronouns and remembered that they are not written with apostrophes:

• The dog is yours/ours/hers/his/mine.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 45-47 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We talked about when to begin new paragraphs:

• For a new time, or
• A new speaker, or
• A new place, or
• A new idea.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, December 16. Students should be prewriting at this time.

Math: We practiced rounding whole numbers today. Homework is to finish Journal p. P3-5.

Science: We learned that all metals are electrical conductors. However, there are some special conductors that aren’t metal. Graphite is one of those special electrical conductors.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Students have another research challenge tonight: Are poinsettias poisonous? Students, bring in evidence if you find out!
• Check out the McGrath Online Book Fair!
• Our field trip to the Michigan Capitol and Historical Museum is December 6. Click the link if you would like to chaperone.
• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• 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.