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Spelling:  None today due to watching Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

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

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

Writing: We talked today about varying sentence beginnings so that sentences aren’t all starting with the same word over and over.

Students also started editing conferences with a partner. The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Monday, January 25. Students should be editing by now.

Math: None today due to completing a writing prompt for the McGrath Writing Committee.

Science: None today due to library.

Social Studies: Students finished the geography challenge, started last week, about regions, elevation, rainfall and population maps.

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:

• The second marking period ends Friday, January 29.
• 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 reviewing ideas we learned about magnetism, before starting a unit today on electricity.

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

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

Writing: We talked today about breaking text into paragraphs. Here are the reasons to start a new paragraph:

• A new character starts talking;
• A new time in the story (time has passed);
• A new place or setting in the story; or,
• A new idea is brought up in the story.

Students also worked on editing their current piece of writing. The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, January 22. Students should be editing by now.

Math: None today due to extra time with Social Studies.

Science: Students made an electrical circuit using one bulb, batter and wire.

Social Studies: Due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day being yesterday, we looked at images from the Civil Rights movement. We also sang and listened to some songs from the time:

we-shall-voices.mp3

View the presentation below:

Behavior Update:

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

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

Notes:

• The second marking period ends Friday, January 29.
• 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:  Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 54-56 are due today. Worksheet pp. 57-59 are available and due next Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students worked on revising today, and many students had revising conferences with a partner.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, January 22. Students should be revising by now.

Math: We continued learning about fractions and decimals today. Homework is to complete Journal p. 80, 82.

Science: Students completed a test today over magnetism.

Social Studies: None today due to working on math skills.

Behavior Update:

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

Notes:

• There is no school for students on Monday, January 18 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
• The second marking period ends Friday, January 29.
• 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:  Students made their Words to Learn lists by correcting words they missed on the last spelling test. This is your student’s customized spelling list for the next test.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 54-56 are due tomorrow. Worksheet pp. 57-59 are also now available in class.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.

Writing: None today due to technology.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, January 22. Students should be revising by now.

Math: We started learning about fractions and decimals today. Students used base 10 blocks to model fractions. Homework is to complete Journal p. 81.

Science: We graded the Investigation Review worksheets from this week and added notes in our minibooks about magnetism. We will have a test over magnetism tomorrow.

Social Studies: None today due to extra time with science.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• 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:

• There is no school for students on Monday, January 18 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
• The second marking period ends Friday, January 22.
• 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:  Students completed a spelling and skill test today.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 54-56 are due tomorrow. Worksheet pp. 57-59 are also now available in class.

Reading: None today due to an assembly by some Grand Blanc High School peer mediators about bullying.

Writing: We read the book, Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant, and noticed that her book contained both general and specific details. It is important for writing to have both kinds of details. If the writing has too many general details, the writing seems floaty, fluffy, not real or true. If the writing has too many specific details, the writing can get bogged down and become too slow.

Students also continued to work on their drafts or start to revise. The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, January 22. Students should be ready to revise by now.

Math: Students completed a math test today over these ideas:

• Multiplication/division facts
• Number sentences (true/false, open sentences, using parentheses)
• Number stories
• Logic problems

Science: None today due to library. Homework is to finish a Magnet Investigation Review crossword puzzle given to students today in class.

Social Studies: Students practiced their map skills about latitude, longitude and use of elevation maps today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• 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:

• The second marking period ends Friday, January 22.
• 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.