Monday, January 29, 2018

WEEK OF JANUARY 29th-FEBRUARY 2nd

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Newsela: Two Olympic Articles + Quizzes: Due Wednesday
Math - Three 10 Marks Due Friday (Multiply Decimals, By 10s, etc)
Vocabulary-Finish Making Quizlet (Test on Friday)
Heritage Project!

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Reading AR 20 Min.
Math - p.135_136 in workbook
Three 10 Marks Due Friday (Multiply Decimals, By 10s, etc)
Vocabulary-Finish Making Quizlet (Test on Friday)
Heritage Project!

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Reading 20 min. AR
Math-Finish p.138+139 in Student Wkbk
Writing-Finish Rough Draft of Expert Essay
STUDY DLR + VOCABULARY QUIZLETS
History - Study Guide Posted/Test next Thursday

Friday, January 19, 2018

WEEK OF JANUARY 22-26th

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Read Newsela : "What's it like to be an NFL player" + 
"What it's like to grow up with an ankle bracelet"
DUE WEDNESDAY
Math - p.121 Student Workbook
Write a story with 15 vocabulary words underlined (Due Friday)
Heritage Project 


HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Finish Read Newsela : "What's it like to be an NFL player" + 
"What it's like to grow up with an ankle bracelet"
DUE WEDNESDAY
Math - Three 10 Marks (Due Friday)
Write a story with 15 vocabulary words underlined (Due Friday)
Practice Learning Vocabulary on Quizlet
Heritage Project 

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Read: AR Book 20 min.
Math - Three 10 Marks (Due Friday)
p. 124 in Student Wkbk
Write a story with 15 vocabulary words underlined (Due Friday)
Practice Learning Vocabulary on Quizlet
Heritage Project 

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
AR
Math-Finish 10 Marks + Moby Max
Finish Vocab Story (Underline words)
Study DLR/Vocab for test
Heritage Project


CLASS UPDATE
We are continuing to explore our personality profile to help understand the best ways that we learn and work together in class and life. Feel free to take the personality profiles that the class done together:
Pig Profile: http://www.csap.org/fall_meeting_files/Fall2012/Personality-Test.pdf
Otter Lion Retriever, Beaver Profile:https://solvemymaths.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/fiveminutepersonalitytestforclass.pdf

In Math we continue Unit 4 with Multiplication of 10s and 100s. We need to review adding/subtracting fractions with different denominators. We will continue Moby Max
Math to reinforce new material.

In Writer's Workshop we have started our "Expert" Informative writing. We are learning about Text Features that will also help enhance our Family Heritage Project.

In Class we did our Table of Contents for our Heritage Project and learned how to insert page numbers. In addition, we learned how to make a pie graph for our ethnicity graph.
In RTI we are continuing the exciting novel, "Holes" We have discussed Irony, Luck, Curses, and the justice system.

In History we are reviewing the French and Indian War, followed by the skirmishes that lead to the Revolution.

Here are the drivers for the field trip on 
Thursday, February 8th:
Michelle Samples (7 students)
Rosie Black (3)
Courtney Oman (3)
Karlie Grigsby (5)
Mageda Ayyad (4)
Jessica Santillano (3)
SUB  Rachel Nigh (6)
Stay dry!
Mr. Sweet

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

January 17-19th

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Reading-Newsela MLK + Quiz
Writing-Do New Year's Resolution Paper
Field Trip Form-Have parent sign and return
with $5 for UCSC Life Lab Trip

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Writing-Vocabulary + Pic Review Sheet
Math - p. 67+68 Home Connections
Field Trip Form-Have parent sign and return

with $5 for UCSC Life Lab Trip

Welcome back! I hope everybody enjoyed that extended winter break. A huge thanks goes out to all the parents and students for their thoughtful holiday gifts! I enjoyed a peaceful break with family and friends. During the break I enjoyed reading a book along with my son that kept me up late at night. In addition, I golfed with Mr. Kyle and my new driver (thanks to the class gift + Amazon gift cards). I had to remodel my bathroom, which was fun, but very challenging. My wife, Hilary, just had Lasik(PRK) surgery so I have been taking care of her for the past week. Enough about me!

Here is a quick update in Room 12:

In class we are reading about Martin Luther King Jr. and discussing his "I Have a Dream" speech that we saw today in class.

In Writer's Workshop we are writing starting a new unit on Informative Writing.

In RTI-We start an amazing book....HOLES! 

In Math we will be starting Unit 4 with multiplication of tens and hundreds along with a review of 1st semester.

In History-We are starting the Unit on the lead-in to the American Revolution

Heritage Project-The project is due in a month, (February 15th). See link on right if your child lost the assignment. We will be learning about some text features that can be used in this project.