September 21-25th

This week in reading we are going to discuss main idea and summaries of non-fiction texts. We will be reading several non-fictions texts and figuring out what the main ideas of each section in each text is. Those main ideas together will create a summary. I teach students that when there is a heading in a text it is like flashing lights drawing your attention and telling you what the main idea of that section is. We will be taking another assessment this Friday on non-fiction texts. I was very impressed with how students did on their assessment last week. Scores for that test are in Skyward out of 50 points. Spelling this week is Sort 8 which is unusual plurals. These are words that when made plural you do not add the typical s to the end. Also this week, students are going to begin their close reading work independently. They will have 1 passage a week and 1 assignment a day that they must complete during our time in reading. Thus far, we have practiced close reading all together as a class and in guided reading groups. Close reading is a technique that teaches students to read a text multiple times to gain as much meaning as they can from the text. Students are also required to find evidence or proof from the text to support their answers.

This week in writing we will be finishing our How To's. We will draft, edit, and revise our papers before rewriting them. I will give students the option to handwrite their final draft or to type their final draft. We will not be reading these in class but instead will be putting them together into a book that each student will be able to read sometime during the year. I will give students through Friday to work on this in class. They will turn their paper in on Friday so I can put them all in a book. Next week we will move on to another writing assignment.

This week in math we are going to start learning how to multiply large numbers. We will start learning how to multiply a 1 digit number by a number in the tens, hundreds, and in the thousands. For example, we will do 8 x 30, 8, 300, and 8 x 3,000. We will also learn that we can break down numbers to multiply. For example, 8 x 3,594 is really 4 problems: 8 x 4, 8 x 90, 8 x 500, and 8 x 3,000.

This week in social studies we will be discussing the history of Utah's landforms. We will talk about what Utah's land has looked like in the past, how it changed, and what forces have changed Utah's land to create the landforms we currently have. Also, students will be expected to begin work on their first social studies homework project. Students will be doing a report on a county. In class they picked a county to do their report on. Students will be expected to find the required information about their county and display the info on a poster board. If students cannot get their own poster board, they can just let me know and I can get one for them. Students have an orange sheet explaining the project and what information is required and I will post that on my blog as well. Students also should have ripped out a notes page from their social studies book in class to help them fill out and find the info they need. My class's reports are due on October 8th and Mrs. Ditto's class's reports are due on October 9th. Students should bring their posters to class on those days to present them to the class. These two websites are great resources for information on all counties. Feel free to use these and any other sources you find!

http://www.uen.org/counties/index.shtml

http://www.ilovehistory.utah.gov/place/counties/counties.html

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 8

                        Math

                            P103 Lesson 5.4

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sort 8
                        Math

                             P105 Lesson 5.5 

                       Social Studies

                            County Report

                

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 8             

                        Math

                            P107 Lesson 5.6

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

                      

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 8

                        Math

                            P109 Extra Practice

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log

                        Social Studies

                            County Report