2 Weeks Left!!

Can you believe we only have 2 weeks left until we go off track?! This year is flying by already. Today was a usual crazy Friday. We had reward activity/study hall, music, and an assembly about fundraising. Remember: do not go door to door for the fundraiser. It is not safe to go to strangers' houses.

IMPORTANT: Picture day is on Monday (9/15). Come looking your best! If you're ordering pictures, send the order form and a check on Monday. Thanks!!

Have an awesome weekend!!

Remembering 9/11

Today we learned about....

-September 11, 2001 - We learned about what happened and how it affects us today
-The Original Thirteen Colonies
-Landforms in Utah and Utah's Geologic History
-Wrote word problems for double digit multiplication

Homework tonight:
1. Read 20 mins
2. Write and solve 2 double digit multiplication problems
3. Petrified Wood - teach someone about how it came to be

Wednesday Homework

1. Read 20 minutes
2. Sort & Write spelling words (they should be written in your planner)
3. 2x2 Multiplication array for 56 x 23 (this is exactly like what we did in Math today)

Tomorrow is Patriot Day...September 11th. Ask your parents about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. We'll be doing a writing assignment about it tomorrow.

Current Events

Today we learned about how to do current events from newspaper articles. So, for tonight's homework, each student needs to do a current event report based on a news broadcast or article. Here are some suggestions for where to find the news:

-Watch a news broadcast (channels 2, 4, 5, 13 are good resources)
-Pick up a newspaper and read it! (they're really cheap at the grocery store if you don't have one)
-Look at a news website online:
-KSL
-Fox 13 News
-Salt Lake Tribune

After you read the article, write a summary of it using the 5 W's and H model we talked about it class (Who, What, When, Where, Why & How).

Also, don't forget to read 20 minutes!

Almost the Weekend!

This week has flown by since it's a short week!! Here's tonight's homework:

1. Finish your science vocabulary (some finished it in class already)
2. Read 20 minutes
3. Spelling - Play Memory (match the words with the same spelling rules)

Students should also have brought home any work they need to finish for catch up work to go to reward activity tomorrow.

Note: for reward activity tomorrow, it's "Bring Your Own Game", so if you know you've got your work done and your planner signed for the whole week, bring a game to share (no DS or video games allowed).

Wednesday

Today we learned about...

1. Multiplication using arrays
2. Plate tectonics
3. Pilgrim life in Plymouth, Massachusetts


Homework tonight is...

1. Read 20 minutes
2. Spelling - Sort & write (some people finished this at school already)
3. Earthshaking Words
4. Math - draw arrays for 12 x 7, 14 x 8

Spelling Words and Homework

I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. Today we had a lot of fun learning about what life was like on the Mayflower and we also learned about earthquakes and plate tectonics. Ask your student what Pangaea was.

Here's tonight's homework:

1. Read 20 mins
2. Pilgrim journal - 3 entries about life on the Mayflower (remember they sailed from August to November 1620). Each entry must be at least 1 paragraph. You may email it to me tonight or turn it in tomorrow.

Sorry I didn't get the spelling words out. With this new program, we're sharing spelling words with 6th grade and I didn't have access to the words during school. Here are the words for this week:

Blue Group (last week you had words ending in -er, -est, -ier, -iest):
looseness
delightful
breathless
emptiness
bountiful
thoughtlessness
disgraceful
fanciful
tactlessness
politeness
fruitless
friendliness
respectful
priceless
flawlessness
thoughtless
flawless
attentiveness
scoreless
tactful
rigorousness
insightful
tactless
massiveness

Green Group (last week you had words that end in -ed)
stake
tale
fair
maze
wait
mane
bail
pear
stair
made
hair
plane
main
bale
pair
pail
bear
rays
way
ate
eight
pare
pale
hare
pane
plain
steak

Yellow Group (last week you had words with the long o sound)
drum
bus
cute
use
huge
just
cube
jump
hunt
shut
tube
cut
plus
tune
such
club
June
rude
flute
mule
put

Red Group (short u sounds last week)
I'll give you your words tomorrow.