Week 22

This week in reading we are working on our fluency by memorizing poems. In class, each student has picked a poem, at least 5 lines and 30 words long, and will be practicing this poem all week. On Friday, students will be reciting the poem to the entire class. We are on our 2nd week of our 1st persuasive essay for reading. Students still have this week to work on their Field Trip essay. They need to be ready to type it by this Friday. If they want to type it at home, they are welcome to. We are still working on getting students access to the writing program My Access, so while we are waiting for that, students should just type their essay into a google doc on their email/drive. This will make us able to copy and paste their essay into My Access once we can finally get in. We are also doing our class Spelling Bee this week. By Friday we will have 2 class winners who will go on to the school Spelling Bee as well as 1 alternate.

In writing we are starting our Compare and Contrast essays. We will be talking about how to compare and contrast things and students will pick what they want to compare and contrast for their essay. We have only a short time to work on this essay. This will be due next Friday.

In math we are finishing up our word problems unit. Students will be taking this test on Thursday, January 30th. Then we will begin our next unit on mixed numbers and line plots. On Thursday, students will also begin to receive worksheets for their word problems homework for a week.

In Social Studies we are finishing presenting all of our Genealogy Projects. We are also discussing what it was like at the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans.

This Week's Homework:

Monday:            Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                          Field Trip Essay

                           Lesson 12.9 P237

Tuesday:          Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                          Field Trip Essay

                           Lesson 9.5 P179

Wednesday:     Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Field Trip Essay

                           Big Book pg. 361-362

Thursday:          Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Field Trip Essay

                          Word Problems 1

Friday:              Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success