May 15-17
Soar day Wednesday
Parent picnic Friday starting at 12:30
Remember to always read!
Science: Geology experiments
Utah state song
Math: review
Writing: Creative projects
Reading: Julian's story
May 1-12
SAGE TESTING! Come to school well rested and ready to do your best on the test!
April 10-14
Spelling lists 5-4 for this week
Math: Begin chapter 12 on measurement
Reading: 5-4, Wonder discussion
Writing: RACE method of writing about information.
Science: Fossils and Classification
Fun Friday will be WEEKLY starting this week! Requirement: On green all week OR One time on yellow, NO REDS!!
SOAR day will be April 28-Giant Twister!
April 3-7 Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your spring break.
Math: Finish chapter 11 on angles
Science: Fossils!
Reading: 5-3
Writing: Opinion writing
SOAR day will be April 28-Giant Twister!
March 7-12
Wednesday our class has earned a pajama and reading party! Students may wear pj's and bring 2 out of the 3: blanket, pillow, small stuffed animal. Nice work everyone!
Math: Chapter 9 test and begin chapter 10
Reading: 5-1
Writing: Opinion writing on school uniforms!
Social Studies: Utah county reports. I am so excited to see these!
Monday we will be visited by the Museum on the Move from the Natural History Museum! It should be awesome to learn about archaeology.
Spelling lists please practice at home! This week we are on unit 5 week 1
February 27-March 3
Thursday- literacy day. Assembly during school and Literacy Night is from 6-8 pm. Come for games, prizes, and fun!
Math: Chapter 9 relating fractions and decimals
Reading: Review week, test Friday!
Writing: Dr. Seuss writing for Literacy week, and poetry
Science: Weather predicting
Begin county reports on Utah counties
February 21-24 No school Monday-President's day
Thank you for coming to SEP conferences.
Math: Chapter 7- test and begin Chapter 8 on Multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
Reading:
New reading groups start this Monday.
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Next week: White ribbon week!
January 30-February 3
"Souper bowl"of caring week! If you can, bring non-perishable food item to donate to help families in need.
Math: Chapter 7- test and begin Chapter 8 on Multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
Reading:
New reading groups start this Monday.
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Next week: White ribbon week!
January 21-27
Math: Chapter 7
Reading: Why is government important?
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Leadership day was Thursday and it was amazing!
January 17-20
No school Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Early out days are now finished at 1:40 p.m.
Please take a look at this site http://gsdfuture.org/
Math: Finish chapter 7 on adding and subtracting fractions. Ask your student how they are doing classwork now, and have them show you!
Reading:
Writing:
Science: Utah environments (desert, forest, wetlands)
Leadership day is Thursday, January 26!
January 3-12
Welcome back!
No school Friday, January 12th (teacher work day)
Math: Chapter 7 on adding and subtracting fractions
Reading: Informational texts
Writing: Opinion essays.
Science: Deserts, Forests, and Wetlands (in Utah)
December 19-22
Thursday is a short day and there is no school Friday. Happy Holidays!
School begins again on Tuesday, January 3 at 9 a.m.
The holiday music concert is Wednesday at 2:15 in the gym. All are welcome.
Math: common denominators, review division.
December 5-9
Check out the new Literacy Link website!
Math: Equivalent fractions
Reading: Being a good neighbor
Writing: Book Reviews
Science: Animal adaptations and classification.
November 28-December 2
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving break!
Math: Long division, please practice this at home! This is a skill that must be practiced a lot!
Reading: Fantasy stories. How can we be welcoming to new friends?
Writing: Book Reviews
Science: Animal adaptations
November 21-22
Tuesday is a short day. No school Wednesday-Friday. Have a great Thanksgiving break!
Link for some great multiplication and division activities
November 14-18
Veteran's Day Assembly Tuesday at 3:10 pm. All are invited, especially veterans!
Math: Chapter 4 Division
Reading: How are writers inspired by animals? Spelling: suffixes. Skill: Point of View. Genre: Poetry.
Writing: How-to essays and slide show presentations
Science: Rock cycle
November 7-11
See parent letter *Very important!*
Do you know how to access the portal? LINK Use this site to check grades, see GoMath and Wonders- for spelling words and activities linked to what we're doing in class.
Tuesday: Dress for Success day and Awards assembly at 1:45 p.m.
Math: Chapter 5 test on Thursday on factors, multiples, and number patterns.
Reading: How do animals adapt to survive?
Writing: How-to writing
Science: Rocks and minerals
October 31-November 4
Thanks to those who helped with our Halloween activities. The Monday the 31st will be a normal day, so please don't send treats or wear costumes. Thanks!
Quarter 1 Report cards will go home this week (Tuesday- probably).
Monday: The water van is coming! They will teach us about Utah Habitats. Our time is 10:30-11:30.
Greg Tang Math challenge board due by Wednesday!
Math: Chapter 5
Reading: Animals
Writing: How-to
Science: Water Van,
October 24-27 Sorry I have not updated for a while! No school Friday.
Halloween parade 9:30 a.m. Thursday
Party 12-12:45 please contact Jodi in the office if you want to help or donate items.
Jeff Kinney- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author event- click here
Math: Finish chapter 3 and take the test.
Reading: Ranita the princess
Writing: Explanatory essays- publish in google slides.
Science: Rocks and minerals introduction
October 3-7
Math: Finish chapter 2, test.
T-time: Fact families with multiplication and division
Reading: Reader's theater! "Whodunit? Woo Knows..."
Review for unit test on Friday,
Writing: Edit, revise, and finish personal narratives
Science: Finish water cycle.
Tuesday- Assembly at 3:15
September 26-30
Field trip Wednesday!
Picture day Friday!
Math: Finish chapter 2. Mental math and multi step problems.
T-time. Multiplication songs
Language arts: Wonders 1.5
Spelling test Friday. (Long o)
Reading strategies- rereading, summarizing, main idea and details,
Writing: Personal narratives
Science: Water cycle.
Check out the "School to home" part of the wonders site. You will find the spelling list, along with a lot of other cool stuff!
September 19-22
Math: Chapter 2 Estimating products, distributive property, expanded form, partial products, mental math, and multistep problems.
T-time: Finish multiplication songs
Reading: Spelling test Thursday - Long i and inflectional endings
Rereading
Cause and Effect
Conventions
Vocabulary using context clues
Fluency: phrasing and rate
Writing: Begin personal narratives
Social studies: Prepare for SEP's, 7 habits, rules
No school Friday
SEP conferences Wednesday and Thursday after school. Please sign up online trumansoars.org or call the office.
Please take a look at this article about clean air
Boo the flu! Coming to Truman on September 22 from 4-7 pm. Come get a flu shot! Flu shots are FREE with most insurances.
September 12-16
Sign up for SEP conferences
*Book Exchange is coming up! Just a reminder that we are going to do a Book Exchange again during SEPs. Students who would like to participate in the exchange will bring books from home that they no longer read or that they do not want to keep anymore. These books need to be in good shape and appropriate for students kindergarten through sixth grade.
*Please return field trip permission forms!
Tuesday is Dress to Impress day. Dress like a leader!
Math: Start Chapter 2
T-time: continue multiplication songs Link here
Reading: Spelling and wonders
Writing: finish Friendly letters
Science/Social Studies: Water cycle
September 6-9
I hope you had a great Labor day weekend!
Breakfast in the classroom begins this week. Be on time to school! 9 a.m.
Math: Place value. Chapters 1.6-1.8 Review, and test Friday.
T-time: Multiplication songs!
Reading: Finish 1.2 and start 1.3, Start SPELLING! Look for a list to come home and practice on the wonders site! Multiple meaning words, compound sentences, comparing and contrasting, re-reading.
Writing: Friendly letters
Science/Social Studies: Habit 1, Water cycle
Chromebooks/computer: Typing.com and GetEpic.com
Other: growth mindset and DIBELS testing :)
**Heads up: We will have a field trip on September 28 to Camp Floyd. We are looking for a few parents to join us who can provide their own transportation. It is about an hour drive each way. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us.
August 29-September 2
Check out this cool teacher's video
Math: Place value continued- Know ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousandths and hundred thousandths
Reading: Finish unit 1.1 start 1.2 Making predictions, idioms, realistic fiction.
Leader in me: Ask your student about their WIGS! (Wildly important goals). We will talk about growth mindset and read a book called "My Mouth is a Volcano"
Writing: Friendly letters
**Heads up: We will have a field trip on September 28 to Camp Floyd. We are looking for a few parents to join us who can provide their own transportation. It is about an hour drive each way.
No school on Monday, September 5 (Labor day)
August 22-26
The first week of school was awesome!
Math: Multiplication practice, take beginning of the year test, Start chapter 1 in Go Math on place value
Reading: Begin Unit 1.1 in Wonders. We will log into the portal to do practice activities. Sentences and fragments, predicting, vocabulary.
Leader in me: We will learn to make smart goals and set our WIGS (Wildly important goals)
Writing: Writing about Utah, writing to a source
Front Row Ed class code is tibbiv
First week of school, August 17-19
Getting to know you
Rules, procedures, expectations
Sign up for parent portal (to check grades)
Review multiplication
Start working on class mission statement and leadership data notebooks.
Soar day Wednesday
Parent picnic Friday starting at 12:30
Remember to always read!
Science: Geology experiments
Utah state song
Math: review
Writing: Creative projects
Reading: Julian's story
May 1-12
SAGE TESTING! Come to school well rested and ready to do your best on the test!
April 10-14
Spelling lists 5-4 for this week
Math: Begin chapter 12 on measurement
Reading: 5-4, Wonder discussion
Writing: RACE method of writing about information.
Science: Fossils and Classification
Fun Friday will be WEEKLY starting this week! Requirement: On green all week OR One time on yellow, NO REDS!!
SOAR day will be April 28-Giant Twister!
April 3-7 Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your spring break.
Math: Finish chapter 11 on angles
Science: Fossils!
Reading: 5-3
Writing: Opinion writing
SOAR day will be April 28-Giant Twister!
March 7-12
Wednesday our class has earned a pajama and reading party! Students may wear pj's and bring 2 out of the 3: blanket, pillow, small stuffed animal. Nice work everyone!
Math: Chapter 9 test and begin chapter 10
Reading: 5-1
Writing: Opinion writing on school uniforms!
Social Studies: Utah county reports. I am so excited to see these!
Monday we will be visited by the Museum on the Move from the Natural History Museum! It should be awesome to learn about archaeology.
Spelling lists please practice at home! This week we are on unit 5 week 1
February 27-March 3
Thursday- literacy day. Assembly during school and Literacy Night is from 6-8 pm. Come for games, prizes, and fun!
Math: Chapter 9 relating fractions and decimals
Reading: Review week, test Friday!
Writing: Dr. Seuss writing for Literacy week, and poetry
Science: Weather predicting
Begin county reports on Utah counties
February 21-24 No school Monday-President's day
Thank you for coming to SEP conferences.
Math: Chapter 7- test and begin Chapter 8 on Multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
Reading:
New reading groups start this Monday.
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Next week: White ribbon week!
January 30-February 3
"Souper bowl"of caring week! If you can, bring non-perishable food item to donate to help families in need.
Math: Chapter 7- test and begin Chapter 8 on Multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
Reading:
New reading groups start this Monday.
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Next week: White ribbon week!
January 21-27
Math: Chapter 7
Reading: Why is government important?
Writing: Fictional Narratives
Science: Weather
Leadership day was Thursday and it was amazing!
January 17-20
No school Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Early out days are now finished at 1:40 p.m.
Please take a look at this site http://gsdfuture.org/
Math: Finish chapter 7 on adding and subtracting fractions. Ask your student how they are doing classwork now, and have them show you!
Reading:
Writing:
Science: Utah environments (desert, forest, wetlands)
Leadership day is Thursday, January 26!
January 3-12
Welcome back!
No school Friday, January 12th (teacher work day)
Math: Chapter 7 on adding and subtracting fractions
Reading: Informational texts
Writing: Opinion essays.
Science: Deserts, Forests, and Wetlands (in Utah)
December 19-22
Thursday is a short day and there is no school Friday. Happy Holidays!
School begins again on Tuesday, January 3 at 9 a.m.
The holiday music concert is Wednesday at 2:15 in the gym. All are welcome.
Math: common denominators, review division.
December 5-9
Check out the new Literacy Link website!
Math: Equivalent fractions
Reading: Being a good neighbor
Writing: Book Reviews
Science: Animal adaptations and classification.
November 28-December 2
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving break!
Math: Long division, please practice this at home! This is a skill that must be practiced a lot!
Reading: Fantasy stories. How can we be welcoming to new friends?
Writing: Book Reviews
Science: Animal adaptations
November 21-22
Tuesday is a short day. No school Wednesday-Friday. Have a great Thanksgiving break!
Link for some great multiplication and division activities
November 14-18
Veteran's Day Assembly Tuesday at 3:10 pm. All are invited, especially veterans!
Math: Chapter 4 Division
Reading: How are writers inspired by animals? Spelling: suffixes. Skill: Point of View. Genre: Poetry.
Writing: How-to essays and slide show presentations
Science: Rock cycle
November 7-11
See parent letter *Very important!*
Do you know how to access the portal? LINK Use this site to check grades, see GoMath and Wonders- for spelling words and activities linked to what we're doing in class.
Tuesday: Dress for Success day and Awards assembly at 1:45 p.m.
Math: Chapter 5 test on Thursday on factors, multiples, and number patterns.
Reading: How do animals adapt to survive?
Writing: How-to writing
Science: Rocks and minerals
October 31-November 4
Thanks to those who helped with our Halloween activities. The Monday the 31st will be a normal day, so please don't send treats or wear costumes. Thanks!
Quarter 1 Report cards will go home this week (Tuesday- probably).
Monday: The water van is coming! They will teach us about Utah Habitats. Our time is 10:30-11:30.
Greg Tang Math challenge board due by Wednesday!
Math: Chapter 5
Reading: Animals
Writing: How-to
Science: Water Van,
October 24-27 Sorry I have not updated for a while! No school Friday.
Halloween parade 9:30 a.m. Thursday
Party 12-12:45 please contact Jodi in the office if you want to help or donate items.
Jeff Kinney- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author event- click here
Math: Finish chapter 3 and take the test.
Reading: Ranita the princess
Writing: Explanatory essays- publish in google slides.
Science: Rocks and minerals introduction
October 3-7
Math: Finish chapter 2, test.
T-time: Fact families with multiplication and division
Reading: Reader's theater! "Whodunit? Woo Knows..."
Review for unit test on Friday,
Writing: Edit, revise, and finish personal narratives
Science: Finish water cycle.
Tuesday- Assembly at 3:15
September 26-30
Field trip Wednesday!
Picture day Friday!
Math: Finish chapter 2. Mental math and multi step problems.
T-time. Multiplication songs
Language arts: Wonders 1.5
Spelling test Friday. (Long o)
Reading strategies- rereading, summarizing, main idea and details,
Writing: Personal narratives
Science: Water cycle.
Check out the "School to home" part of the wonders site. You will find the spelling list, along with a lot of other cool stuff!
September 19-22
Math: Chapter 2 Estimating products, distributive property, expanded form, partial products, mental math, and multistep problems.
T-time: Finish multiplication songs
Reading: Spelling test Thursday - Long i and inflectional endings
Rereading
Cause and Effect
Conventions
Vocabulary using context clues
Fluency: phrasing and rate
Writing: Begin personal narratives
Social studies: Prepare for SEP's, 7 habits, rules
No school Friday
SEP conferences Wednesday and Thursday after school. Please sign up online trumansoars.org or call the office.
Please take a look at this article about clean air
Boo the flu! Coming to Truman on September 22 from 4-7 pm. Come get a flu shot! Flu shots are FREE with most insurances.
September 12-16
Sign up for SEP conferences
*Book Exchange is coming up! Just a reminder that we are going to do a Book Exchange again during SEPs. Students who would like to participate in the exchange will bring books from home that they no longer read or that they do not want to keep anymore. These books need to be in good shape and appropriate for students kindergarten through sixth grade.
*Please return field trip permission forms!
Tuesday is Dress to Impress day. Dress like a leader!
Math: Start Chapter 2
T-time: continue multiplication songs Link here
Reading: Spelling and wonders
Writing: finish Friendly letters
Science/Social Studies: Water cycle
September 6-9
I hope you had a great Labor day weekend!
Breakfast in the classroom begins this week. Be on time to school! 9 a.m.
Math: Place value. Chapters 1.6-1.8 Review, and test Friday.
T-time: Multiplication songs!
Reading: Finish 1.2 and start 1.3, Start SPELLING! Look for a list to come home and practice on the wonders site! Multiple meaning words, compound sentences, comparing and contrasting, re-reading.
Writing: Friendly letters
Science/Social Studies: Habit 1, Water cycle
Chromebooks/computer: Typing.com and GetEpic.com
Other: growth mindset and DIBELS testing :)
**Heads up: We will have a field trip on September 28 to Camp Floyd. We are looking for a few parents to join us who can provide their own transportation. It is about an hour drive each way. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us.
August 29-September 2
Check out this cool teacher's video
Math: Place value continued- Know ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousandths and hundred thousandths
Reading: Finish unit 1.1 start 1.2 Making predictions, idioms, realistic fiction.
Leader in me: Ask your student about their WIGS! (Wildly important goals). We will talk about growth mindset and read a book called "My Mouth is a Volcano"
Writing: Friendly letters
**Heads up: We will have a field trip on September 28 to Camp Floyd. We are looking for a few parents to join us who can provide their own transportation. It is about an hour drive each way.
No school on Monday, September 5 (Labor day)
August 22-26
The first week of school was awesome!
Math: Multiplication practice, take beginning of the year test, Start chapter 1 in Go Math on place value
Reading: Begin Unit 1.1 in Wonders. We will log into the portal to do practice activities. Sentences and fragments, predicting, vocabulary.
Leader in me: We will learn to make smart goals and set our WIGS (Wildly important goals)
Writing: Writing about Utah, writing to a source
Front Row Ed class code is tibbiv
First week of school, August 17-19
Getting to know you
Rules, procedures, expectations
Sign up for parent portal (to check grades)
Review multiplication
Start working on class mission statement and leadership data notebooks.