January 11-15th

This week in reading we will continue reviewing summaries for the DRA. We will also begin doing DRA testing. Before we test students, we will go over the goal they made after the last DRA so they can make sure they are working on that for this time. Target Time for this week will be practicing Fluency for the DRA as well. This week will start our Persuasive/Opinion Writing Homework. This week's essay is on Field Trips. We will begin this essay in class and give students time to work on their web. We will give out the article with instructions, the rough draft form, and the checklist with instructions to students. I will also post these to my blog. This essay will not be due until next Friday, January 22nd, so that students more time to understand what exactly to do and to ask any questions they have. We will have the Chromebooks in class on this Friday and next Friday so that students can type their paper in class if they need to. If students get their paper typed into Google Docs and shared with me before the due date, I will try to edit their paper on Google Docs and make some notes for them to make their paper better. This is all practice for when students will take their Sage Writing test in a couple of months.

This week in writing we will also be working on Opinion Papers. We are doing a paper on White Lies together which I am heavily helping students on. Then we will start a paper on Junk Food which will be graded and I will give much less help on. The Junk Food paper will be due on January 21st.

This week in math we are taking our equivalent fractions test. Students have been doing great on this in class so I have high hopes for them on this test! Then we will begin our measurement unit. We will focus on converting units of time and finding elapsed time this week and will also learn about benchmark measurements.

This week in social studies we will be learning about different groups of people who came to Utah. We will learn why they came to Utah and how they got here. We will talk about their points of view as well.

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Field Trip Essay

                        Math

                            P121 Lesson 6.5

                        Social Studies

                            Genealogy Project

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Field Trip Essay
                        Math

                             P123 Lesson 6.6 

                        Social Studies

                            Genealogy Project

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Field Trip Essay     

                        Math

                            P125 Lesson 6.7

                        Social Studies

                            Genealogy Project

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Field Trip Essay

                        Math

                            P127 Lesson 6.8
                        Social Studies
                            Genealogy Project

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log
                             Field Trip Essay

                        Social Studies

                            Genealogy Project