November 2nd-6th

This week in reading we will be discussing the differences between drama, poetry and prose. We will read examples of each and learn what makes each of them unique as well as the similarities and differences between each of them. We will take an assessment on this on Friday. Our spelling this week is Sort 20 with the oo sound. Students should turn in their 20 points on Friday. Also, students should still be turning in a Reading Log each Monday.

This week in writing we are finishing our poetry unit. We will finish learning how to write tongue twisters, couplets, quatrains, sonnets, and free verse poems. Then we will pick a few to edit, revise, and publish. We will make a class book of these. We will also be taking about figurative language this week as we learn about poetry.

This week in math we will finish our word problems unit. This tends to be a really hard unit for students, so we will not be giving the test for this unit until after we have had plenty of review time in Target Time. Please help your students at home with words problems of all different types. This week in Target Time we will be reviewing long division. We will retake our test in Target Time as well. Since this was really hard for students as well, I will not be putting in student's grades for this test until they have done the retake. Also, I have posted on my blog links to some awesome games students can use to review/practice long division on their own at home. Please help your student with long division if they are still having trouble with it!

This week in social studies we will be discussing 2 things. We will discuss factors that influence our health and safety in Utah as well as discussing how humans can change their physical environment. Also, students will be making study guides to take home to review and study for their counties test. This test will not be until December. My class will take it on December 14th and Mrs. Ditto's class on December 15th. We will spend time in class practicing and studying for this test, but students are also expected to practice at home to make sure they know where each county is and what it's county seat is.

Lastly, the end of the term is coming up. All missing assignments are due on THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH! Missing assignments will not be accepted after that. If there is a test that your student hasn't finished, we will take care of that in class. Other than that, students are expected to get everything else in to me by Friday. I sent home missing assignment lists on Friday of last week so students could get a head start on this over the weekend.

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 20

                        Math

                            P89 Lesson 4.11

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sort 20
                        Math

                             P25 Lesson 2.2

                        Social Studies
                              Study Counties

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 20         

                        Math

                            P63 Lesson 3.7
                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sort 20

                        Math

                            P247 Lesson 13.1

                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log

                        Social Studies

                              Study Counties