February 28-March 3rd

Dear Parents,

We got to watch the School Spelling Bee on Friday and it was so fun to watch our friends do so well. We were so impressed with the words everyone could spell and how hard they must have studied! It makes us want to do better at spelling! I hope everyone had fun at Classic Skating last week! Just so you know, I will be gone Monday through Wednesday of this week so we will be having a sub. I will be back on Thursday and Friday. Don’t forget to sign your student’s field trip permission slip. Students should have brought this home last Friday. They need to bring it back by this Thursday or they will not be able to get a school lunch. Our Field Trip will be March 17^th, to BYU’s Bean Museum. If you would like to be a volunteer and come with us, please fill out the volunteer section of the yellow permission slip.

Here is what we are doing in class this week:

Reading: This week we will be reviewing identifying the problem and solution, and other important events in a story. We will also talk about visualizing what we are reading. Our spelling is list #21 with closed syllables. Students should be spending 20 minutes studying their words this week. They should also be reading 20 minutes a night and filling out their reading logs.

Math: This week we will be continuing our Geometry unit by focusing on angles. We will be learning about how angles go around in a circle. We will identify fractions of a circle and the angles they are. We will learn that angles are measured by degrees and will learn how to use a protractor to find how many degrees an angle is.

Writing: This week we will be doing another opinion essay. We reviewed how to write and opinion essay last week and this week students will do their own that will be graded. They will be writing about the Genetic Traits of animals. They have through Friday to work on this in class. If they are not done on Friday, they should finish it over the weekend at home.

Science: As we continue to talk about different animals and UT environments, we will look at the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates. There is also an exciting animal adaptation project that the students will get to do during class this week. We will also start discussing the web of life and the fact that everything is related.

Social Studies: This week in social studies we will be talking about what life was like for the Pioneers after they settled down in Utah. We will learn about some of the different cities they settled, implements they used, and talk about how their life was different from our life now.

This week’s homework:

Read 20 mins each day and fill out a pink reading log

Spelling #21 – 20 mins study

Lesson 10.4-P195, 10.5-P197, 10.6-P199, 10.7-P201

*Math, reading, and spelling are due on Friday

Thanks!

Mrs. Wheatley