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Spelling:  We finished learning rules for adding suffixes to words:

1. Double the final letter (tapping, bugging, tripping)
2. Change the y to i (carrying, sunnier)
3. Add es to some endings (boxes, switches, pushes, buzzes, glasses)

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 27, 28 and 47 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Groups started working on Literature Circles projects in order to share their book with the class.

Writing: None today due to technology.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, December 18. Students should be drafting by now.

Math: None today due to Bring a Family Member to School Day.

Science: Students completed a science experiment today to learn what kinds of things a magnet sticks to, and what happens when magnets come close together.

Social Studies: None today due to reading a historical fiction holiday book about a girl from New Mexico.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• 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:

• Thanks to all the family members who visited our class today! We made papel picado punched paper decorations, paper poinsettias, and popcorn garland!
• Children’s Speller and Dictionary Order due Friday, December 4. Franklin has a sale in December every year. This dictionary, which we have in class, is on sale for $5 off, plus free shipping.
• Our trip to Michigan’s Capitol and Historical Museum is Tuesday, December 8. We need chaperones for the trip. Get more details.
• Friends in Service Here (FISH) donations for our six-year old boy are due before December 11. Thanks for your generosity!
• 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 the late start.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 27, 28 and 47 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: None today due to the late start.

Writing: Students started prewriting conferences today. Some students also shared with the class their idea for their next piece of fiction. Ask your student what their idea is!

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, December 18. Students should be prewriting by now.

Math: Students worked on reviewing skills from the last test, if their test score didn’t prove that they knew the skill. Homework is to complete reviewing the skills attached to each student’s test, if not finished in class.

Science: None today due to library.

Social Studies: None today due to going to the book fair.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• 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:

• Children’s Speller and Dictionary Order due Friday, December 4. Franklin has a sale in December every year. This dictionary, which we have in class, is on sale for $5 off, plus free shipping.
• Our trip to Michigan’s Capitol and Historical Museum is Tuesday, December 8. We need chaperones for the trip. Get more details.
• Friends in Service Here (FISH) donations for our six-year old boy are due before December 11. Thanks for your generosity!
• 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 started learning about prefixes, suffixes and base words. Students learned these things:

• Adding prefixes on to the beginning of a base words doesn’t change the spelling of a base word;
• Most suffixes are just added on to the end of a word; and
• For words with a silent e, the silent e must be dropped before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 27, 28 and 47 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: We read the book Girl Wonder by Deborah Hopkinson and talked about organizing writing by using paragraphs, chapters, or line breaks. Organizing helps the reader to understand the story better because similar ideas are organized together.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, December 18. Students should be prewriting by now.

Math: None today due to art.

Science: Students completed a matter and energy test today.

Social Studies: We watched a video to compare the automobile industry from the past to the auto industry of today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• 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:

• School starts at 11:05 am tomorrow due to professional development for teachers.
• Children’s Speller and Dictionary Order due Friday, December 4. Franklin has a sale in December every year. This dictionary, which we have in class, is on sale for $5 off, plus free shipping.
• Our trip to Michigan’s Capitol and Historical Museum is Tuesday, December 8. We need chaperones for the trip. Get more details.
• Friends in Service Here (FISH) donations for our six-year old boy are due before December 11. Thanks for your generosity!
• 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. We used this time to discuss our school’s Friends in Service Here (FISH) program, which locates families in need and helps them to provide a good Christmas to their children. Our class has been asked to donate gifts for a six-year old boy. A letter went home last week. Today, students volunteered to bring in presents based on his wish list. We’ll wrap them next week.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 27, 28 and 47 are available and due on Friday.

Reading: None today due to planning our FISH program donations.

Writing: Students started prewriting for their next piece of fiction. Students were also notified that they can turn in their current fiction piece tomorrow.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Friday, December 18. Students should be prewriting by now.

Math: We reviewed the relationship between multiplication and division today.

Science: Students made a magnet minibook today. A test over these ideas will be tomorrow:

• Forms of energy (electrical, sound, light, heat, food, motion)
• States of matter (solid, liquid, gas)
• Measuring matter (weight, mass, volume)
• Measuring tools (balance, spring scale, graduated cylinder)
• Changes in states of matter (melting, evaporation, condensation, freezing)

Social Studies: We reviewed threats to Michigan’s natural resources and how we can protect them.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 1
• 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:

• Children’s Speller and Dictionary Order due Friday, December 4. Franklin has a sale in December every year. This dictionary, which we have in class, is on sale for $5 off, plus free shipping.
• Our trip to Michigan’s Capitol and Historical Museum is Tuesday, December 8. We need chaperones for the trip. Get more details.
• Friends in Service Here (FISH) donations for our six-year old boy are due before December 11. Thanks for your generosity!
• 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.

Today we focused on our Thanksgiving blessings. We listened to the Shaker song, Simple Gifts:

simple-gifts-applachian.mp3

We then wrote down all of the things we are thankful for (our Thanksgiving blessings). Some students filled a page and started onto the back.

After listing our blessings, students created a wreath to display some of their blessings.

Hope your family has a happy Thanksgiving holiday!

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:

• Children’s Speller and Dictionary Order due Friday, December 4. Franklin has a sale in December every year. This dictionary, which we have in class, is on sale for $5 off, plus free shipping.
• Our trip to Michigan’s Capitol and Historical Museum is Tuesday, December 8. We need chaperones for the trip. Get more details.
• 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.