This week in writing we are writing an essay on the history of candy. This is an explanatory essay that will prepare students for the Sage Test at the end of the year. We have read 2 passages and identified facts from them that we can use to explain how candy has changed through time. I have taught students how to take notes as they read these articles and how to form 3 paragraphs from those notes that we can write to answer the question. This week, we will type out 3 paragraphs from our notes. This will be our rough draft. We will copy and paste this into My Access which is a program that will score our writing and help us revise and edit our essays. A 4.0 is what is expected for students to score in My Access but students can get up to a 6.0 on their essays. We will look at what areas we can fix and we will edit and revise our essays with the help of My Access. To publish our paper we will resubmit the essay in My Access and see if we can improve our scores from our rough draft! Students must have this all done by this Friday.
This week in math we will be finishing multiplication and starting division. We will review different ways do to double digit multiplication on Monday and on Tuesday we will take our test on Multiplication. I will be sending home a sheet of strategies that I have taught students to use on double digit multiplication. Different students prefer different methods and you might not be familiar with the method your student prefers. This is why I am sending home this green strategy sheet in case you need to help your student with a strategy that you do not already know. We will move on to division on Wednesday. We will focus on what to do with remainders, tricks to dividing with multiples of 10 or 100, and how to break problems up to divide them easier.
This week in social studies we will be talking about natural resources. These are things that occur in nature that we can use such as water, trees, and copper. We will discuss the natural resources that are in Utah and who takes care of these. Thursday and Friday we will be presenting our County Reports. Please have your student finish these ASAP! My class's reports are due Thursday and Mrs. Ditto's class's reports are due on Friday. If you cannot get a poster for your child's report or do not have time to go get one, just have your child let me know and I can get one for them. If you don't know where to start finding information for the report, go to the 2 links that were in my email and blog post from September 21st. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help with these reports! Again, there is no written report, but all the required information just needs to be displayed nicely on the poster.
Don't forget about Parent Teacher Conferences! I am so excited to meet with you and your student to discuss how they are doing. I love our class this year and I'm so glad to have each student as part of it. During Parent Teacher Conferences the book fair will also be going on in the Library. There are some great books in there so please check it out. I can't wait to see you all this week!
This Week's Homework
Monday: Reading
Read 20 Mins - Reading Log
Sort 16
Math
P33 Lesson 2.6
Social Studies
County Report
Tuesday: Reading
Read 20 Mins - Reading Log
Sort 16
Math
Math
P41 Lesson 2.10
Social Studies
County Report
Wednesday: Reading
Read 20 Mins - Reading Log
Sort 16
Math
P43 Lesson 2.11
Social Studies
County Report
Thursday: Reading
Read 20 Mins - Reading Log
Sort 16
Math
P55 Lesson 3.3
Social Studies
County Report - My Class Due
Friday: Reading
Read 20 Mins -Reading Log
Social Studies
County Report - Ditto's Class Due
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