News & Calendar:
- Welcome back to school! I hope you had as wonderful of a break as I did!
- NEW: Reading Log will be due on Mondays instead of Fridays starting this week. I think this will help so that students can focus on recording the current week as they go instead of waiting a week before logging it. Please go to RTSUtah.com to log your reading days each week before Monday (OR if you have no access to internet, use the December/January calendars inside your planner.)
- NEW: Also starting this week, Mrs. Pitts and Mrs. Jensen will be swapping to have our homeroom classes at the end of the day instead of at the beginning.
- Before the break I sent home a special assignment that the students have been able to work on in class for the past several weeks: a “Let’s Explore” project. Please help your student finish his or her final draft before Friday at the latest. As soon as I receive all of the final drafts, I will be able to put all of the articles, illustrations, and photos together to make a class magazine!
Main Objectives for this week:
Students will be able to…
… continue to read and comprehend this week’s selection, “Jalapeño Bagels,” focusing on the comprehension strategy “Adjusting Reading Speed.”
… learn and use these new vocabulary words:
- business
- culture
- international
- ingredients
- dough
- jalapeño
… use commas in a series.
… read and retell the decodable story #28: “Apples Up High.”
… read and practice this week’s poem: “Snowman.”
Spelling Words for this Week:
No new spelling words this week!
Spelling HOMEWORK for this week:
No spelling homework this week!
Mystery Question!
Your student will receive a Skyhawk HERO Ticket if he or she can answer the “Mystery Question” in his or her planner or on a piece of paper sometime before Friday:
Have you ever eaten a food with jalapeño peppers in it, and if so, what was the name of the food?