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Spelling: Students worked on MobyMax Language during this time with a guest teacher.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Monday.

Reading: None today due to art.

Writing: Today was a revising work day with a guest teacher.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: Students used MobyMax to work on math skills today with a guest teacher.

Science: We completed an experiment about using magnetic objects, a compass, and iron filings to find hidden magnets in a box. Homework is to finish the Detecting Magnets experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 13

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

Notes:

• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Cirlces. Some groups worked on making connections and visualizing as reading strategies.

Writing: We continued to talk about using precise nouns instead of general words that make the reader confused. If a writer uses a specific noun for a person, place, or thing, the reader will better understand what is happening in the writing.

Today was also a revising work day, and students started revising the beginning of their story.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: Students used MobyMax to work on math skills today.

Science: We started an experiment about using tools and the science of magnetism to find hidden magnets. Students also completed a MiniQuiz about how a magnet’s force changes with distance and when passing through objects.

Social Studies: We continued to learn about the features of a market economy, learning today about these features:

• private property rights (people and businesses own the property, not the government)
• competition (businesses compete for consumers)
• voluntary exchange (people choose what to buy and sell, and businesses will sell what consumers demand)

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 10

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

Notes:

• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

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. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to the late start schedule.

Writing: We talked about using specific words instead of general words that make the reader confused:

• use “rust,” not “brown stuff.”
• say “instruction manual,” not “car booklet.”
• write “jack,” not “thing to lift the car up.”

Looking for better and more specific word choices is one way a reader can revise their writing to improve it.

Today was also a drafting work day. The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be finishing the end of their draft by now and ready to revise tomorrow.

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 art.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 9

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

Notes:

• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We reviewed the idea that homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and sometimes sound different.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading and discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Today was a drafting work day.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be nearing the end of their draft by now.

Math: Students worked on math skills using MobyMax today.

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

Social Studies: We learned about the features of a market economy: specialization, competition, voluntary exchange, and consumer sovereignty.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 2
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 8

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

Notes:

• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We practiced forming words with common spelling patterns for the long i sound: igh, ind, i, i-consonant-e, y.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 31-33 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups practiced asking questions as a reading strategy.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

The third and last piece of the marking period is a slightly fictionalized personal narrative, due Friday, November 1. Your student should be nearing the half-way point of their draft by now.

Math: Students completed a math pretest today before we start our next topic.

Science: We reviewed our last experiment and learned that the force of a magnet gets weaker as the distance between objects grows. A magnet’s force gets stronger when it is closer to another magnet or object.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 2

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

Notes:

• 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, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
• Our Hawaiian Beach Bash Halloween Party is on Thursday, October 31, from 10-12:30. Add your name to our guest list or volunteer to help here.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.