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Spelling: None today due to the half day schedule.

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

Reading: Some students shared their monologue with the class, practicing volume, speed and tone.

Writing: We discussed varying sentence beginnings so that sentences don’t start the same way over and over, and so the reader doesn’t hear the same things over and over.

Students also continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: None today due to the half day schedule.

Social Studies: We graded the Three Fires people of Michigan review worksheet today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 0
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 9

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.

Spelling: None today due to a writing minilesson.

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

Reading: None today due to the half day schedule.

Writing: We discussed varying sentence beginnings so that sentences don’t start the same way over and over, and so the reader doesn’t hear the same things over and over.

Students also continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: None today due to the half day schedule.

Science: In health today, we viewed a movie called, Now I Can Tell You My Secret, about a boy who is inappropriately touched by a neighbor. We discussed that, when a student is touched in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable, they have a right to:

1. Say no;
2. Get away fast to a safe place;
3. Tell a trusted adult; or
4. Keep telling trusted adults if some don’t believe you.

Here is an overview and discussion guide for the movie. Here is another guide called, Keep Them Safe (PDF), with plenty of child safety tips.

Social Studies: None today due to the half day schedule.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 0
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 8

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.

Spelling: None today.

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

Reading: Today, students chose a section of their Literature Circles book to read to the class as a monologue. Students practiced reading their monologue with good speed, tone and volume.

Writing: Students continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: Students continued to multiply with the distributive property: 54 x 25 = (50+4) x (20 + 5). Homework is to finish Journal p. 116 and StudyLink 5.2.

Science: Students worked on a melodrama about weather safety. The melodramas will be performed tomorrow.

Social Studies: We learned about the Huron Indians, who were famous for growing corn and trading with the French fur traders. Homework is to finish review  worksheet pp. 7 and 9.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 2
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 7

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.

Spelling: Today students completed their Words to Learn list of missed spelling words.

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

Reading: Today, the final two Literature Circles groups presented projects to share their books with the class.

Writing: Students continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: Students learned how to multiply with the distributive property: 54 x 25 = (50+4) x (20 + 5).

Science: Students worked on a melodrama about weather safety.

Social Studies: We learned that men and women from the Three Fires people of Michigan were responsible for different jobs and tasks.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 19
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 6

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.

Spelling: Today was a spelling test and skill test over compound words.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due Fridays; today’s assignment will be due Monday due to the test.

Reading: Today, four Literature Circles groups presented projects to share their books with the class. The remaining projects will be presented on Monday.

Writing: Students continued to work on their novel being written and typed at docs.mrhowd.com.  Ask your student what their word count goal is and how many words they have written so far. This piece is due March 27. Click here for further details. Visit our Novel blog to check on the latest word counts.

Math: None today due to the Read-a-Thon.

Science: None today due to the Read-a-Thon.

Social Studies: We took notes in our minibooks about the Three Fires people of Michigan.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 3
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 8
• Hours with no yellow magnets (record: 58): 12
• Days with no orange magnets (record: 39; previous score: 7): 5

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

Notes:

• View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• This week’s juice volunteers: Kullan and Jared
• Check your Spring Conference time here.