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Spelling: Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Students also completed a fiction reading test.

Writing: We spent some time prewriting about possible problems in our school, neighborhoods, city, state or country that students may want to try to improve. The  next piece of writing is a persuasive letter about an idea to improve our school or community. Here is more information about this project. The persuasive letter will be due Friday, March 5. Homework is to decide on a idea about a way to improve our school or community.

Math: None today due to an assembly.

Science: We reviewed electricity and electrical safety. There will be a test over this subject on Thursday.

Social Studies: We learned about Detroit’s important role during World War II of making war equipment in automobile factories.

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: We reviewed homographs (words with the same spelling, but different sounds or meanings) today. This will be the skill tested on Monday’s spelling test.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on questioning and making inferences as reading strategies.

Writing: We finished reviewing Core Democratic Values today. The  next piece of writing is a persuasive letter about an idea to improve our school or community. Here is more information about this project. The persuasive letter will be due Friday, March 5. Students should be thinking of what they would like to write their letter about.

Math: Students practiced estimating and measuring using centimeters and meters.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We reviewed Core Democratic Values. Students will later use this information in their persuasive letter about an idea to improve the school or community.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 8

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

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: We reviewed suffixes, homographs (words with the same spelling, but different sounds or meanings) and irregular verbs today (run/ran, go/went, catch/caught).

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: None on Thursdays due to technology.

In writing, we have been reviewing Core Democratic Values. The  next piece of writing is a persuasive letter about an idea to improve our school or community. Here is more information about this project. The persuasive letter will be due Friday, March 5.

Math: We continued to practice metric measurement and estimation. Homework is to finish Journal p. 102.

Science: We wrote notes in our minibooks about electrical safety. We also completed an experiment that modeled using a broken cord or an overloaded circuit.

Social Studies: We wrote notes in our minibooks about well-known features of the Midwest.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• 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 SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We continued to review Core Democratic Values, learning today about diversity. We also talked about potential helpful ideas that could be used for the  next piece of writing, a persuasive letter about an idea to improve our school or community. Here is more information about this project. The persuasive letter will be due Friday, March 5.

Math: We started practicing measurement with the metric system. Today, students measured several objects to the nearest centimeter. Homework is to finish Math Boxes 4.7.

Science: None today due to library.

Social Studies: None today due to art.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 5

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

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today due to finalizing the fiction writing piece we have been working on recently.

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

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook stories were due today. Here are our stories:

• Abel’s mesosoic adventure
• Alex’s Space Adventure
• Ashlee’s CIA Missio
• Casey’s BIG gam
• Charles tarer on the track
• DOTUN’S NINJA MISSION
• Drew’s Wizard Off
• Dylans saber tooth tiger adventure
  
• Indira’s CIA Case
• Jacob’s Black Ninja vs Purple Ninja
• Jadyn’s Horseback Riding Story.
• Joel’s The Ultimate Ninja
• katies underwater mystery
  
• Mahrysa’s The Detactive
• Mary’s C.I.A
• MEGHANS OUTDOOR AVENTURE WITH A HORSE
• Nancy’s Proof Of Aliens
• Nate’s Ninja Battle
• Ryans world war
• SAMARI’S FBI mission
• Sara’s- Sucked in a Video Game
• Skylir’s Seaking of The Vampires
• William’s Area 51.3 Adventure
• Zach’s Jewel Mystery
• Zack’s X-Spy

View all the stories, including stories from other years.

We also started working on the next piece of writing, a persuasive letter about an idea to improve our school or community. This week, we are reviewing Core Democratic Values. Students should also be thinking of what idea they would like to write about. Here is more information about this project. The persuasive letter will be due Friday, March 5.

Math: We reviewed addition and subtraction with money and students completed a MiniQuiz over that subject.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: We learned about transportation, sports and how the weather affects life in the Midwest.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3

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

Notes:

• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.