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Spelling: None today due to getting new seats.

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

Reading: Students continued to work on Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: None today due to our technology time.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26.

Math: Students practiced multiplying using the standard method of multiplying. Homework is to finish Journal P3-7 started in class.

Science: None today due to our math skills time.

Social Studies: We learned about some different artifacts, natural resources or motivations of explorers that came to the New World. Homework is to finish Notebook pp. 23-23 if not finished in class.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 1

Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays. This week’s assignment will be due on Monday.

Reading: Students continued to work on Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: Today was a publishing day in writing.

The next piece of writing, a fiction story, will be due on Monday, November 26.

Math: We continued to practice multiplying by using the distributive property to break larger numbers into pieces. Today, students used the grid method to multiply using the distributive property. Here’s an example of the grid method.

To multiply 34 × 13, break the problem into (30 + 4) x (10 + 3):

	30	4
10	300	40
3	90	12

Then, add the partial products: 300 + 90 + 40 + 12 = 442. Homework is to finish Journal P3-5 started in class.

Science: We wrote notes about the respiratory system. Homework is to finish the Breathtaking System page.

Social Studies: We started a unit on European explorers. Today we thought about all the tools involved in planning and taking a trip, and how hard it would have been for the explorers to travel without a lot of the tools we have today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 7

Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

KPICASA_GALLERY(HeartAndLungDissection2012)

Spelling: We reviewed different meanings of the -er suffix:

• Person who, as in painter or teacher
• More, as in higher or faster
• Or part of the base word, as in letter

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

Reading: Students started to plan Literature Circles projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: Today was a work day in writing. Some students worked on editing or publishing.

The next piece of writing, a fictionalized personal narrative, will be due on Friday, November 2. Students should be publishing at this point.

Math: We practiced multiplying by using the distributive property to break larger numbers into pieces. For example, 73 x 6 can be broken into 70 x 6 and 3 x 6. The smaller pieces are easier to multiply and can be added to get the same answer as the original problem.

Science: Students examined dissected sheep hearts and lungs. Here are some pictures and videos.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 3

Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Sign up, view or edit your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.

KPICASA_GALLERY(HawaiianBeachBash2012)