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Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today was a reading skills practice day using MobyMax.

Writing: Students continued to revise their narrative today. A personal narrative is due on Friday, October 10. Your student should be revising at this time.

Math: We practiced rounding whole numbers and decimals using place value. Students also practiced math skills using MobyMax Math.

Here’s the skills we’ll be working on for the coming days. Maybe your student will have time to work on them at home:

• Adding decimals 0.5
• Adding decimals 1
• Adding decimals 2

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

Science: We wrote notes about the respiratory system and started to learn about the nervous system. Homework is to finish the “Beautiful Brain” and “Spinal Signals” review pages.

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

Notes:

• Calling all Box Tops! McGrath is having a box tops contest through October 17. Send ’em in to help our school!
• View our daily learning targets.
• 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 discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We talked about writing an interesting lead to hook the reader. One way to do that is to think of a waterfall. The brink of the waterfall is where the action of the story starts to get interesting. The lead should back up a little from the waterfall, but not too far away from the brink. Otherwise the story starts too slowing and the reader loses interest.

Students continued to revise their narrative. A personal narrative is due on Friday, October 10. Your student should be revising at this time.

Math: We practiced using mental math to add and subtract decimals. Students also practiced adding decimals using Khan Academy.

Here’s the skills we’ll be working on for the coming days. Maybe your student will have time to work on them at home:

• Adding decimals 0.5
• Adding decimals 1
• Adding decimals 2

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

Science: We started to learn about the important parts of the respiratory system.

Social Studies: We learned about the Northwest Coast American Indian region and what artifacts could be found there.

Notes:

• View our daily learning targets.
• 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: We continued to review common spelling patterns for the /or/ sound: or and ore. We also practiced identifying the hidden meaning of proverbs and idioms.

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

Reading: Today was a continuation of yesterday’s reading day in Literature Circles. We also had art during this time.

Writing: Students started revising draft their narrative. A personal narrative is due on Friday, October 10. Your student should be starting to revise at this time.

Math: Students finished their partner math test started last week. Students that finished early also practiced math skills using MobyMax.

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

Science: None today due to a scheduled reading skills practice time.

Social Studies: We started to learn about American Indian cultural regions. During this unit, students will use clues to try to match up the homes, clothes and tools of American Indians that lived in seven different regions of the US.

Notes:

• View our daily learning targets.
• 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: We reviewed common spelling patterns for the /or/ sound: or and ore. We also remembered that an r following a vowel makes a new sound.

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 visualizing text while reading.

Writing: We continued to learn that adding inner story details of thoughts and feelings adds another layer of realism to personal narratives and stories.

Students also continued to draft their narrative. A personal narrative is due on Friday, October 10. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft at this time.

Math: Students continued to work on the partner math test started last week.

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

Science: We wrote notes about the circulatory system and reviewed the respiratory system.

Social Studies: Students received social studies notebooks to use for writing notes. We also started learning that different regions usually have different characteristics. Homework is to finish notebook p. 15.

Notes:

• View our daily learning targets.
• 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: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

A personal narrative is due on Friday, October 10. Your student should be drafting at this time.

Math: Today was a math skills practice time using MobyMax.

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

Science: We did an experiment to learn how the circulatory and respiratory system work  in exercise. We learned that the heart rate and breathing rate increase during exercise, and slow down at rest. Homework is to finish the “Heart Beats and Breathing” experiment and the “A Breathtaking System” review pages.

Social Studies: Students completed a social studies test today about American Indian environments.

Notes:

• View our daily learning targets.
• 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.