January 25-29th

This week in reading we will be reviewing science concepts through texts. We will mostly review rocks and minerals as well as learning some poems to help us remember the water cycle, rock cycle, and the weather. Our 2nd homework essay will start this week. It will be answering the question, should women compete against men in sports? Students will receive the article and a pink rough draft on Monday. This article will be due this Friday. We will read the article in class on Monday and students will be given time to do their pre-write in class as well. Then on Friday we will have the Chromebooks to finish typing and put our essays in My Access. This will be the same process we followed last week. My advise for students to easily complete this essay in one week is to do the 1st side of their rough draft on Monday night, the second side on Tuesday night, edit and revise on Wednesday night, start typing at home on Thursday night, and finish typing and put in My Access on Friday in class.

This week in writing we are going to be doing our last in class opinion essay. We will read an article on the Study of Garbage. Then students will make their web, and type their rough draft. They will edit and revise after they have typed, and then put it in My Access. This is going to be their best practice for the Sage test. It will show them how to write an essay on the computer and edit and revise while it is already typed. Since students will not be handwriting this essay, this should easily be finished in class this week. This essay will be graded as well.

This week in math we will be finishing our measurement unit. We will learn how to convert units of Customary and Metric capacity. We will do word problems, money problems, as well as review. Our test for this unit will be on Friday so students should be bringing home their pre-test to study on Thursday. One problem that I am seeing while we do these conversions, is that students are forgetting how to multiply and divide. We learned those concepts at the beginning of the year. If you can please review these concepts with your student, it will help them in class. We will review these in class as often as we can as well.

This week in social studies we will finish presenting our Genealogy Projects. We will be displaying our maps in the hall so we can see where everyone comes from. Then we will be learning about preserving history and learning about the ancient Native americans who lived here in Utah.

Lastly, we will be finishing our Sage Interim tests this week. Again, these are pre-tests that help us know how students are doing so far this year and what we need to go over more before the end of the year Sage Tests. We took our Math test on Friday, and will take our Reading test this Tuesday as well as the Writing test this Wednesday.

This Week's Homework

Monday:         Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sports Essay
                        Math

                             P223 Lesson 12.2

Tuesday:        Reading  

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                              Sports Essay
                        Math

                             P231 Lesson 12.6

Wednesday:   Reading   

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sports Essay     

                        Math

                            P225 Lesson 12.3

Thursday:       Reading     

                             Read 20 Mins - Reading Log

                             Sports Essay

                        Math

                            P227 Lesson 12.4

Friday:            Reading       

                             Read 20 Mins -Reading Log