Landforms

Go to this web page and watch the videos.

Post a comment in the comments section about landforms that we live by here in Sandy, UT.

I will be sending the link for this blog post to the students' teachers.

Thanks!

Science Fair Update

Have you done your experiment yet? You still have a few more days off, so you could take data and be careful about doing your project. We are going to start typing up our results and working on our display boards in January so that we will be ready to ROCK the judges!

If you need a reminder about some of the important information, you can go to this blog entry.

If you hate what you initially proposed and/or are having trouble working with your group and want to try something that uses the ENGINEERING guidelines (see picture below), you could look at some of these ideas.

Keep up the good work!

Science Fair

Parent Letter - click here

Science Fair Rubric - click here

What NOT to do - click here

Science Buddies (aka the most amazing set of resources ever) - click here

Expectations - click here

Some projects may be suitable for submission to the NASA Kids in Micro-g contest. For more details, click here

Week of November 30

The spelling list is up on Spelling City. It is List 10- Mariah Keeps Cool.

Progress reports are printed on the back of this week's homework slip.

Students are starting to earn their reward activity for December..... This is a "no missing work" reward. :)

Student Teacher

We are getting a student teacher! Her name is Libbianne Nelson and she is a teacher candidate at Westminster College. She will be with us from January 4 through March 12.

MIssing Work

We are going to be having an earned activity for students who have all their Term 2 work turned in. This activity will be held on December 23, so all students have adequate time to get any missing work turned in.

Students in Mrs. Buttars' class have short notes on their homework sheets with any work that was missing from last week. I will have complete reports ready by Wednesday.

I typically do not make extra copies of assignments. If your child cannot find an assignment, you are welcome to come in before or after school to make copies. It is simply too time-consuming for me to put together missing work packets for the 12-15 students who have lost their work.

I have had students report that they have taken assignments home and that their parents have recycled them. Mistakes happen. Please write me a note in this case. I will excuse the work on the first occasion. After that, I would ask that you come make a replacement copy.

For your information, work that comes home with a score, check mark, or star on it has been recorded. Any other work has not, and should be returned to school.

Thanks for your support!

Wednesday 10/18

READING WORKSHOP:
This time is largely filled with our Guided Reading groups. Some of the boys are reading one of my favorite books, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. It is a book about a boy named Brian whose plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. We have just gotten to the part where Brian has figured out how to make fire. I am hoping to secure the other three books in the Hatchet series so that we can continue to read about Brian.

For independent work this week, the students have a cursive sheet, the lake mini-book, a vocab packet, their spelling/grammar packets, and a Thanksgiving assignment.

MATH:
We are working on long division and expressing remainders in the form of a fraction. Once the students are quite solid with this, we will introduce three and four-digit dividends (the number being divided).

Please help your child learn skip counting and/or their division facts. This will make a huge difference as we expand our knowledge of division into big numbers and then begin working with fractions.

SCIENCE:
We took our final quiz on the Earth's surface/erosion unit today and turned in our journals for this unit. Tomorrow we will pre-test on magnetism.