September 28th-October 2nd

This week in reading we will be talking about an author's use of reasons and evidence. We are teaching students to look for the reasons the author is giving to make their point as well as the evidence they have to back up their reasons. This will prepare students for when they have to write opinion papers, giving their opinion, and backing it up with reasons and evidence. We will have an assessment on this skill on Friday. The assessment we took last week was really hard for students. I have put that into Skyward only out of 20 points instead of 50 since it was so hard. We will go over this assessment in class. Our spelling this week is Sort 13 which is focusing on where the syllables are in each word. Students still need to do 20 points of spelling activities to turn in on Friday as well as 100 minutes of reading recorded on their reading log and turned in on Mondays.

This week in writing we are starting a new explanatory unit. We will be reading passages and writing an explanation about them. This will be very good prep for the end of year testing where students will be given a question, 2 articles about a similar topic, and will be asked to write and explanation using those articles. I will be teaching students how to use and online program called My Access to grade student's writing and give feedback on it. The program will also help students edit and revise their papers.

This week in math we are learning the standard algorithm for multiplying a 4 digit number by a 1 digit number. This is the method that most people know and use. Students did so well last week breaking up the numbers into expanded form and multiplying them, but this week will be a little trickier to catch on. We will also begin learning double digit multiplication. For Target Time we are reviewing factors and multiples. We will give retake tests to all students who did not pass the original Factors and Multiples test on Friday in Target Time.

This week in social studies we will finish talking about which forces helped to create Utah's land. We will then discuss what climate is and the climate of Utah. Lastly, we will discuss what natural resources are and what natural resources we have in Utah. Don't forget that students should be working on their county report at home. It is due NEXT WEEK! October 8th is when my class's reports are due and Mrs. Ditto's class's reports are due on October 9th. If you lost the copy of the instructions they are posted on my blog. If you forgot the links to the websites with great info for the reports, they are under the week of September 21st on my blog as well. Please let me know if you have any questions about this report! It does not need to be typed up as a paper, but all the information just needs to be put nicely on a poster.

Don't forget to sign up for parent teacher conferences! I'm so excited to see you and discuss with you and your students all the good things they are doing in class. We will also make some goals to work on for the rest of the year. You can go online to the school's website and sign up for a time that works for you. You can also call the office and they can help you sign up. I will give each student who is signed up for parent teacher conferences by Friday $10 in Maui Money!

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 13

                        Math

                            P110 Extra Practice

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sort 13
                        Math

                             P23 Lesson 2.1 

                       Social Studies

                            County Report

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 13           

                        Math

                            P27 Lesson 2.3

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

                      

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 13

                        Math

                            P31 Lesson 2.5

                        Social Studies

                            County Report

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log

                        Social Studies

                            County Report