November 9-13th

This week in reading we are learning about the point of view different fiction texts can be written in. 1st person is where the person telling the story is actually in the story and 3rd person is where someone not in the story is telling it. We will have an assessment on this concept on Friday. Our spelling is Sort 21 this week with long and short e. Students should turn in 20 points of work on Friday. They should also complete another reading log this week to turn in on Monday.

This week in writing we will be beginning our Opinion/Persuasive Unit. Our first project will be to write a letter as a Turkey or Farmer for Thanksgiving. We will give reasons why we should eat turkey or why we shouldn't eat turkey for Thanksgiving. We will read these to the class the day before Thanksgiving Break.

This week in math we will be starting our Fractions unit. This should be an easier unit that reviews the basics of fractions. We will discuss what fractions are, how to make them, and how to break them apart. We will also add fractions together and subtract them. In Target Time we will be finishing Long Division and will take our test as well. If your student is still struggling with long division, I encourage you to have them practice using the games I emailed the links for to students a couple of weeks ago. These will take students step by step through long division and will give them great practice. Also, if your student did not get an 80% or above on their Multiplication Test, this week I will let students retake it. If your student wants to/if you want your student to retake this test, they must tell me and stay in from recess sometime this week to get it done.

This week in social studies we will be discussing what we would need if we were going to develop a city. We will pretend to do so and draw pictures of our city. We will also learn about some important environmental issues in Utah. We will also continue to study our counties in class.

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 21

                        Math

                            P249 Lesson 13.2

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sort 21
                        Math

                             P73 Lesson 4.3

                        Social Studies
                              Study Counties

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 21         

                        Math

                            P9 Lesson 1.4
                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 21

                        Math

                            P29 Lesson 2.4

                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log

                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties