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Spelling: We learned common spelling patterns for the long i sound: igh, ind, i, i-consonant-e, y.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 were due today.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Students shared their questions, connections, illustrations, and passages with the other readers in their group and discussed their reading.

Writing: We talked about how much time it takes to write a quality piece of writing. If a student works for just 15 minutes a day at school, that would amount to 3 hours of writing time over 3 weeks. If that students works just 15 minutes at home a day, that would be another 3 hours, for a total of 6 hours. Working for only 15 minutes at school and home each day isn’t much, so working for longer might be needed to write an interesting piece of writing that others want to read. For students that don’t work each day, and wait until the deadline, they would have to work for 6 hours just to achieve an average piece of writing. The point: don’t wait until the end! Work a little each day at school and home!

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: We used Khan Academy and MobyMax to work on math skills.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We started learning about the features of a market economy, the system used in the US. Homework is to finish the Market Economy: Important Ideas notes page started yesterday with a guest teacher.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 15

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• 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 extra math time.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Writing: Students completed prewriting conferences today by adding comments and questions into a partner’s Google document. Homework is to have a family member continue to add comments into the document, if needed.

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

Math: Students completed a math test today.

Science: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Social Studies: None today due to the MEAP Writing test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 5
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 11

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• 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: Students continued to make their Words to Learn list form words missed on the last spelling test. This will be your student’s spelling list for the next test.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Students practiced asking questions, making connections, selecting passages, and visualizing as reading strategies.

Writing: We talked about how an author can make up realistic details to make a story more interesting for the reader. As long as being truthful isn’t the goal, a story that has been “fictionalized” a little can be more interesting. Here is a story that is a personal narrative that has been fictionalized slightly:

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

Math: None today due to the MEAP Math test. We’ll have a math test tomorrow.

Science: None today due to the MEAP Math test.

Social Studies: None today due to the MEAP Math test.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 7

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• 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. 28-30 are due Friday.

Reading: Today was our first Literature Circles reading day. Each student received a text at their level to read with a group of students. Today they started reading their books silently and writing down in a notebook.

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 prewriting at this time.

Math: We reviewed for tomorrow’s math test about multiplication and division. A practice test can be found on p. 34 in the math book.

Science: Students completed an experiment to test how the force of magnet changes over distance. Homework is to finish the “Breaking the Force” experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We reviewed scarcity, making choices, and opportunity cost today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 3
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 6

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• 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 on Fridays.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 24-27 were due Friday.

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

Writing: We talked more about proving general statements with details. A reader will believe a writer if the details prove what the story is saying. Three good kinds of details for stories are visual details, action, and talking.

The second piece of writing for the year is a personal narrative, due Monday, October 14 (new date). Your student should be editing or publishing at this time.

Math: Today was our math skills practice time using MobyMax Math and Khan Academy.

Science: We started working on a experiment to test how the force of magnet changes over distance.

Social Studies: Students practiced reading stories, looking for problems with scarcity, and brainstorming choices that could be made to solve the scarcity problems. Homework is to finish the Scarcity Chart if not finished in class.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: TBD): 14

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

Notes:

• The Fall Partnership Fundraiser has started. Orders and money are due October 18 (new date). This fundraiser helps fund assemblies, supplies, and small field trips. We’ll have a separate fundraiser for our Mackinac trip.
• 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 Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.