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Spelling: None today due to a character education lesson from Mrs. Alexander about bullying.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.

Reading: None today due to extra time with science.

Writing: We learned that another type of lively lead is one that starts a story with some dialogue.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Tuesday, January 17 (new date). Students should be editing or publishing at this time.

Math: We practice subtracting across zeroes today. Homework is to finish Journal P4-5.

Science: Students completed an experiment about identifying different states of matter. Homework is to finish the “Matter in a Baggie” experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We learned about employment, unemployment and the labor force today. Homework is to finish the Employments Scenarios chart if not done in class.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 6

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: We learned that most suffixes are just added on to the base word:

• runs
• teachable
• faster
• fastest
• quickly
• flying

Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Students received new magazines today to practice informational reading.

Writing: We talked writing a lively lead to start a piece of writing. One type of lively lead is to use a snapshot lead that shows what a character, place or scene looks like.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Tuesday, January 17 (new date). Students should be editing at this time.

Math: We practice subtracting today. Homework is to finish Journal P4-4.

Science: We the 3 Balloons experiment completed recently. We learned that solids have a specific shape and size, liquids have a changing shape but specific size, and gases have changing shapes and sizes.

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

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: None today due to extra time for writing.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Students turned in their previous Literature Circles books and will receive new magazines soon.

Writing: We talked about explaining new characters with visual details, actions, background information and details about who they are.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Tuesday, January 17 (new date). Students should be editing at this time.

Math: None today due to an assembly from Coach Steve from the Detroit Pistons.

Science: We participated in a live webchat with a student engineer from Cornell University. He is working on a project called KickSat, which will launch several hundred palm-sized satellites into space. We were even mentioned in the webchat when one of our questions was answered! We will be learning about space after our unit on matter is finished.

Social Studies: We compared what happened to the gold mines of Rhyolite, Nevada to copper mines in Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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

Spelling: Today was the class spelling bee. Congratulations to Tai and Julian for being our class finalists!

Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Students finished reading their selected monologues aloud to the class.

Writing: We talked about describing new characters to explain who they are shortly after they first appear in a story.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, January 13. Students should be revising at this time.

Math: None today due to extra time for our spelling bee.

Science: Students completed an experiment using balloons that contained a solid, liquid and gas today. Homework is to complete the 3 Balloons experiment if not done in class.

Social Studies: We learned more about the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. We also learned that economies can change when any of these things change:

• natural resources
• technology
• competition

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 3
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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 lists by correcting words they missed on the last spelling test.

Cursive: Cursive pp. 57-59 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Students read their selected monologues aloud to the class.

Writing: We talked about organizing writing using paragraphs, chapters, or other sections to help the reader see the different ideas in a story.

The next piece of writing is a fiction story, due Friday, January 13. Students should be revising at this time.

Math: None today due to STAR Friday.

Science: We used a syringe to push air through a tube into a bottle of water. We noticed that the air pushed into the bottle forced the water out of another tube in the bottle. Air is matter because it takes up space in the bottle.

Social Studies: We learned about the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. When the gold mines closed and the economy changed, people lost their jobs and the town went vacant.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?

Notes:

• Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.

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