MrHowd.com

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: None today due to art.

Writing: Students worked on a school writing prompt today.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction piece, will be due Friday, January 21. Students should be publishing at this time.

Math: None today due to the Career Fair.

Science: We reviewed the analysis questions from the sensitivity activity.

Social Studies: We reviewed King Philip’s War.

Career Fair: Today was the Career Fair. View the presentations we attended below. Special thanks to Pastor Dean Stewart from Mayfair Bible Church, who presented again at our career fair (at least the fourth consecutive year!). Pastor Stewart is the author of several children’s books about character. He has donated several to our class. You can learn more about the books here.

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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today due to art.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on inferring as a reading strategy.

Writing: Our writing time was shortened due to art, but students had a short time to work on revising today.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction piece, will be due Friday, January 21. Students should be revising or editing at this time.

Math: We reviewed decimal division today in partner groups. Homework is to finish four problems from the review page started in class.

Science: We learned about how the nervous system controls the sense of touch and that there are more touch receptors on the fingertips than other parts of the arm. Homework is to finish the analysis questions on p. 27.

Social Studies: Some students acted out a skit about the Plymouth colony today. Homework is to finish Notebook p. 36.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• 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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today was the first planning and reading day for our new Literature Circles books.

Writing: We continued to talk about different kinds of leads that can begin a story.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction piece, will be due Friday, January 21. Students should be revising at this time.

Math: Students completed a division MiniQuiz today.

Science: Students worked on a science MiniQuiz today.

Social Studies: None on Fridays.

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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: Today was a spelling and skill test.

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

Reading: Students received new Literature Circles books today.

Writing: We talked about different kinds of leads that can begin a story. Today, we looked at the lead from A Christmas Carol and noticed that it was a thinking lead. Here’s the lead. You can also see the book below:

Our next piece of writing, a fiction piece, will be due Friday, January 21. Students should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: We reviewed the partial-quotients method of division today and talked about dividing with decimals. Homework is to finish Journal pp. 113-114.

Science: We reviewed the sensitivity experiment from earlier in the week. A MiniQuiz over the first three investigations will be tomorrow.

Social Studies: We learned about the Plymouth colony today.

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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• View or edit the “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.

Spelling: None today. We will have a spelling test later in the week.

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

Reading: We previewed new Literature Circles books today.

Writing: Today was a work day in writing.

Our next piece of writing, a fiction piece, will be due Friday, January 21. Students should be finished with their draft and revising at this time.

Math: We reviewed the partial-quotients method of division today. Homework is to finish Puzzle p. 6.

Science: None today due to library.

Social Studies: Some students in class performed a play about the Jamestown colony. Homework is to finish Notebook p. 35.

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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• View or edit the “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
• View our class calendar.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.