September 29-October 3

This week in reading we are reading texts and figuring out what the point they are making is. Then we are figuring out what reasons and evidence they give to support their point. This is a precursor for when we begin writing our persuasive essays where we will need to have reasons and evidence to support our point. Our spelling this week is Sort 13 with VCV, VCCV doublet, and VCCV different words. Remember, students do NOT need to color their words at home. We do that in class. They just need to do the purple sheet activities at home. If you want to help your student practice their spelling words online, you can go to the link for Spelling City on my blog and go to the sort for this week, and you can have students study the words there and practice taking their spelling test.

This week in writing we are finishing our How Tos. We will be finishing editing and revising our rough drafts, and then publishing our final draft. Once we have a final draft done, we will type our paper on the Chromebooks. I'm still trying to get our blog set up so I will send and email home later in the week letting you know how to have students get on and type their paper when they are done. Again, if they don't finish everything by Thursday in class, they need to take it home for homework so they can present it in class on Friday.

This week in math we are moving on to multiplying 2 digit numbers by other 2 digit numbers. For example, 24 x 45 = ?. I will be sending home a sheet at the end of the week to help you know how to do the different strategies we are going over in class.

This week in social studies we are learning about climate and natural resources. We will talk about what they are and what we have in Utah. Also, please make sure that your student is working on their county report! These are due at the end of next week: October 9th for my class and October 10th for Miss Goldsborough's class. I have posted a couple of links on my blog to help you find the information needed for these reports.

Lastly, please help your student to remember to get their homework done, with their name on it, and remember to turn it in! This will help keep your student caught up with their work. If they have missing assignments, make sure they get them done ASAP before they become 0s after 2 weeks.

This Week's Homework:

Monday:          Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                           Spelling Sort 13

                           Lesson 2.3 P27

Tuesday:         Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                           Spelling Sort 13

                           Lesson 2.5 P31

Wednesday:   Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                           Spelling Sort 13

                           Lesson 2.6 P33

Thursday:        Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                           Spelling Sort 13

                           Lesson 2.10 P41

Friday:              Read 20 Mins -Reading Log