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Spelling: We practiced writing words with silent letters.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 7-9 are available and are due on Friday.

Reading: We finished reading a story about a talent show. We practiced determining important parts of the story.

Writing: We reviewed the idea that writers should focus on a short time. They should not write about days and days, or many different times. Just focus on the best part and a short time.

Students also finished prewriting conferences today. Some students are behind due to not finishing their prewriting yesterday.

Finally, we started our draft today. We will have four school days to work on our draft, which should be a full page. That means a student will need to write about 10 lines a day to finish with a full page after four drafting days.

A personal narrative is due October 11. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be finished prewriting the beginning, middle, and ending of their story and should have their draft started.

Decorated portfolios are due next Monday, September 30.

Math: None today due to art. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We looked at a map showing different rock types over the US, and talked about which rocks might contain rocks. We’ll be investigating rock samples soon.

Social Studies: We started to read a story about a country with an unfair government and the problems it caused.

Character Strength: We are learning about teamwork and citizenship this week.

Notes:

• If you would like to buy chromebook insurance for $25, payments are due TODAY!
• 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!
• 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. 7-9 are available and are due on Friday.

Reading: We continued to read a story about a talent show. We also practiced visualizing by drawing a picture that matched a part of the text.

Writing: Students worked on prewriting conferences today. Students found a partner, shared their writing, and partners were to comment curious questions and suggestions for their partner. We will work on this tomorrow morning too.

A personal narrative is due October 11. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be finished prewriting the beginning, middle, and ending of their story by tonight.

Decorated portfolios are due next Monday, September 30.

Math: We practiced multiplying and dividing by 10 today again today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We discussed how a fossil plant might have formed, what rocks are made of, and what might cause mixed fossil beds, such as those with land and sea creatures fossilized together.

Social Studies: We started to read about type of government we have.

Character Strength: We are learning about teamwork and citizenship this week.

Notes:

• If you would like to buy chromebook insurance for $25, payments are due by September 26 and you can pay online.
• 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!
• 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 practiced common spelling patterns for the long /o/ sound: o, oa, -old, o-e, ow.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 7-9 are available and are due on Friday.

Reading: We starting reading a story about a talent show. We also practiced writing questions and connections that we thought of when we were reading.

Writing: We talked about how to prewriting a list of ideas using a “BME Chart.” This is a list of ideas from the beginning, middle, and end of the story, listed using bullets. If a student prewrites their beginning, middle, and ending, it will be like a map helping them know what to write about next.

A personal narrative is due October 11. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be prewriting the beginning, middle, and ending of their story at this point.

Decorated portfolios are due next Monday, September 30.

Math: We practiced multiplying and dividing by 10 today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We used a simulation to learn that fossils can form if a dead organism gets buried quickly. Organisms that don’t get buried will decompose or be eaten by scavengers before they can fossilize. Homework is to finish notebook p. 9 if not done in class.

Social Studies: We used on textbook to write notes about what the Preamble means. Homework is to finish this note page if not done in class.

Character Strength: We are learning about teamwork and citizenship this week.

Notes:

• If you would like to buy chromebook insurance for $25, payments are due by September 26 and you can pay online.
• 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!
• 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 practice common spelling patterns for the long /o/ sound.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 7-9 are available and are due on Friday.

Reading: We read a story about a student today due learned that actions affect others.

Writing: We learned to “dig up buried stories,” today. Each student drew a map of their home or other place they know well. Then they places an X on each place where they have a strong or interesting memory. This is one way students can think of story ideas.

Our next piece of writing will be another personal narrative. This is a personal memory that the student remembers (A time I _____). This will be due October 11. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be working on their “Dig Up Buried Stories” map to help them think of interesting story ideas.

Also, students were giving a colored file folder today to use as a writing portfolio. Students were asked to decorate this folder with pictures, stickers, drawings, clippings. It will be laminated and then used to story final writing pieces for the year. Decorated portfolios are due next Monday, September 30.

Math: We practiced regrouping from one place value to a neighboring one today. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We looked at some pictures of fossils and inferred how they became fossilized. We’ll use a simulation tomorrow to try to understand why most organisms don’t become fossils and why some do.

Social Studies: We read more about the Preamble to the Constitution and thought about what each part meant.

Character Strength: We are learning about teamwork and citizenship this week.

Notes:

• If you would like to buy chromebook insurance for $25, payments are due by September 26 and you can pay online.
• 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!
• 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 short and long vowel sounds and noticed that most words with short vowels have only one vowel (cut, spin, got) and most words with long vowel sounds have two vowels (cute, spine, goat).

Also, results from the Achievement Test 1 pretest are in JupiterGrades.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 4-6 are available and were due on today. Only nine students had their cursive completed and ready to turn in today.

Reading: None today due to picture day. We also watched a video about self-control. It’s about researchers that gave kids one marshmallow, or two if they would wait 15 minutes. Most kids didn’t wait. But the ones that did were shown to be successful later in life. They had self-control and could tell themselves no. The others didn’t think about future consequences, and they kept that pattern throughout life. It shows that self-control is important and 4th graders still have time to build their self-control before the consequences get very hard.

Writing: We talked about publishing today. This is where a student adds a title and decides if they want to change the title font, color or size. It’s also when a student deletes their prewriting and resolves all comments to the writing is ready for others to read.

Our first piece of writing, a personal narrative, will be due Sunday, September 22. Homework on weekdays is to work on writing for 15 minutes. Your student should be finished with their writing at point.

Math: Today was a work day in Khan Academy for students to finish any leftover skills or to work ahead. Homework on weekdays is to practice math for 15 minutes using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

We also noticed that the hard workers in our class have worked over 100 minutes on Khan Academy this week to practice math. But the bottom 20% of our class is only working about 40 minutes. The hard workers in our class completed 18 math skills, while easy workers only learned 3 new skills. It’s pretty clear that some students are working harder than others to learn new things.

Science: We finished reading and writing notes about how scientists use observations to make inferences about the past. Homework is to finish p. 5 if not done in class.

Social Studies: We had a leader lesson today that reviewed the 7 Habits of Successful People.

Character Strength: We are learning about curiosity this week.

Notes:

• Buying chromebook insurance for $25 can save you from a $50-200 repair bill if a screen breaks or a keyboard is damaged. Payments are due by September 26 and you can pay online. Here are more details about chromebook insurance.
• 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!
• 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.