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Spelling: Students started making Words to Learn lists from words they missed on the last spelling test. Homework is to finish making the list and return it to school tomorrow.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 58-59 are due on Thursday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on breaking words into chunks and using clues to make inferences.

Writing: We began our next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 17. Students should be thinking of adventure story and character ideas at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We reviewed addition today and checking an answer by estimating. The matching Journal page is P4-3. Students also used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Science: None today due to art.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 5
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 6
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 14): 0

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

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• 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 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 52-57 are due on Monday.

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

Writing: Students worked on publishing today.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be publishing by now.

Math: We practiced math skills using MobyMax Math and Khan Academy.

Science: Students completed an electricity and magnetism district science test today.

Social Studies: We learned more about how assembly lines use specialization and division of labor to increase productivity.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 1): 14

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

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• 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 5th grade.

Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 52-57 are due on Monday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We learned about how each scene in a story should contain a mix of talking, action, and visual details.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be editing by now.

Math: We practiced estimating sums and differences by rounding. Journal P4-2 is the corresponding Journal page.  Students also practiced math skills using Moby Max Math.

Science: Students completed an electricity science test today.

Social Studies: None today due to art.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 1): 7

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

Notes:

• Bring a Family Member to School Day was today! Thanks to everyone that visited. Students practiced computer coding using Light-bot. Here’s a version to play at home.
• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• 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 5th grade.

Spelling: None today due to the late start schedule.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 52-57 are due on Monday.

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

Writing: We practiced looking for and correcting run-on sentences. We talked about how every sentence should have one or two ideas, and then a new sentence should be started.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be editing by now.

Math: Students worked on math skills using Khan Academy today.

Science: None today due to the late start schedule.

Social Studies: None today due to the late start schedule.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 1): 0

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

Notes:

• Bring a Family Member to School Day is tomorrow!
• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• 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 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 52-57 are due on Monday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some students worked on visualizing and determining importance as reading strategies.

Writing: We reviewed when to make new paragraphs:

• new speaker
• new time
• new place
• new action
• new idea

We also talked about three interesting ways to begin a story, which is called a lead:

• a talking lead that starts with a character talking
• a visual lead that describes what a character or place looks like
• an action lead that describes an important action that happens at the beginning of the story

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be revising by now.

Math: Students completed a math test today about place value and rounding.

Science: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s science test about electricity.

Social Studies: Students worked in groups to form a timeline of important events in Michigan’s automotive history. We also learned about how assembly lines use specialization and division of labor to make more products.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 6): 3

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

Notes:

• We visit the book fair tomorrow!
• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• 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 5th grade.