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Spelling: Today was the McGrath Spelling Bee.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on questioning as a reading strategy.

Writing: Students continued to practice writing literary essays today using a short story we read last week.

Here’s a sample that we started writing a literary essay together.

A literary essay will be due Friday, February 6.

Math: Students worked on a district math test today. Here are some skills we’ve been working on lately:

• Division with remainders
• Division by 2 digits
• Division facts from 10-12

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We started reading about different kinds of data scientists collect during tests on people.

Social Studies: Students completed a reading challenge about early English settlements. Homework is to finish notebook p. 38 and to prepared for a test tomorrow.

Notes:

• Third marking period report cards are available at StudentVue.
• Middle school course request sheets are due February 13.
• 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 6th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today was a reading skills and AR practice time.

Writing: We practiced writing literary essays today using a new short story.

Here’s a sample that we started writing a literary essay together.

A literary essay will be due Friday, February 6.

Math: We practiced dividing by tens again. Here are some division skills we’ve been working on lately:

• Division with remainders
• Division by 2 digits

We also practiced division facts from 10-12 using AAAMath.com.

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: None today due to our math skills practice time.

Social Studies: We learning about a conflict between the English settlers and the American Indians. Homework is to finish notebook p. 37.

Notes:

• Third marking period report cards are available at StudentVue.
• Middle school course request sheets are due February 13.
• 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 6th grade.

Spelling: Students made Words to Learn lists from words missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Students planned their new Literature Circles book reading days today.

Writing: We discussed the main ingredients of a literary essay:

• Introduction with a summary and the book’s theme.
• Three examples from the book that show the theme.
• A conclusion with the theme and what the writer learned.

We started writing a literary essay together.

A literary essay will be due Friday, February 6.

Math: We started to practiced dividing by tens. Here are some division skills we’ve been working on lately:

• Division with remainders
• Division by 2 digits

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We reviewed the human variation experiment completed yesterday.

Social Studies: We started learning about a conflict between the English settlers and the American Indians.

Notes:

• Middle school course request sheets are due February 13.
• 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 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Students received their new Literature Circles books and we started to plan how many pages each student will read daily.

Writing: We started working on our next writing project, a literary essay (here’s a sample). Students will select a picture book and write an essay about the theme or big idea of the book.

A literary essay will be due Friday, February 6.

Math: Students completed a STAR Math test today. Here are some division skills we’ve been working on lately:

• Division with remainders
• Division by 2 digits

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: Students completed an experiment to test human variation to touch sensitivity. Homework is to finish analysis questions 1-6 on p. 31.

Social Studies: Students completed a district social studies test today.

Notes:

• Middle school course request sheets are due February 13.
• 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 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was a spelling and skill test.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today was a reading and AR skills practice day.

Writing: Students worked on publishing their adventure story website today.

The Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook project is due Friday, January 16, but I told students that they could continue to make changes and improvements to their website this weekend. We’ll start a new project next week.

Math: Students practiced math skills using MobyMax Math. Here are some division skills we’ve been working on lately:

• Division with remainders
• Division by 2 digits

Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.

Science: We set up our next experiment about human variation.

Social Studies: We finished learning about Plymouth. Homework is to finish notebook p. 36.

Notes:

• Middle school course request sheets are due February 13.
• The second marking period ends Friday, January 16. Log in to StudentView to look at recent grades and check for missing assignments.
• 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 6th grade.