October 12-14th

This week in reading we are continuing to read stories. We will continue to focus on characters, events, and the setting. For spelling our words are Sort 17. Because of Fall Break, these will be the words for this week and next week. That means students do NOT need to turn them in until next Friday, OCTOBER 23RD. They basically have 2 weeks to do their work. For reading logs, they will only need to fill out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for this week. Next week they will fill out a new reading log for Tuesday through Friday.

This week in math we are learning long division. We will start with the basics of how to regroup doing division and use place value blocks and pictures. We will learn how to line the numbers up in long division and what each step of the algorithm means. This is a really hard concept for students to learn, but is essential for students to be able to divide in 4th grade. Next Thursday will be our test for division.

This week in writing we will finish our History of Candy paper and will work on our Haunted House. Today is our last day for our Candy paper so students need to have their paper in My Access, scored, revised and edited, and scored a second time. Students have their login and password for My Access in their planners and the website is just Myaccess.com. I will also include on my blog the publishing checklist that students need to complete before they are done and the rubric which I will score students on. Then we will be writing a Halloween story pretending we were walking through a haunted house and describing what happened in there.

For social studies this week we will finish presenting our County Reports. I am very impressed with how these turned out and I wanted to thank each of you for helping your student complete them! After presenting our reports, we will begin learning about the population concentrations around the world and around Utah.

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 17

                        Math

                            P57 Lesson 3.4

                        Writing

                            Finish History of Candy Paper!

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sort 17
                        Math

                             P59 Lesson 3.5 

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 17