Homework Week of Nov 16-20

Dear Students and Parents,

Here is a breakdown of this week's homework and our class concepts:

Concepts for the Week: 

READING: A new take away concept is to explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based upon specific information in the text. We continue to practice point of view: first-person or third-person, identify the themes, and support our ideas with specific information in the text.

WRITING:  We continue our exploration of caves and spelunking to create an opinion piece. We consider pros and cons, the other side's point of view, and structure/organization for how to write an opinion paragraph/essay.  Opinion writing will be our focus until Dec 11th.

SPELLING: We are studying more vocabulary words, this time focusing on the prefix "dis" meaning not, none.

MATH: We continue the Utah core standard that states 4th grade students will multiply a single digit factor by a multi-digit number/factor up to 4 digits. We will learn a few strategies to do this including the standard algorithm, open array, partial products, and the distributive property.

Homework for the Week (due by Friday this week):

Reading: 120 minutes

Spelling: 3 Spelling Tic Tac Toe activities, test Friday
Spelling Words: were, went, could, would, should, drab, dismal, disturb, disrespectful, disadvantage, disappoint, discontinue, disobedient, disorganized, disposable

Math: My Math Pages 183-184, 207-208, 213-214 (packet for the entire week sent home Tuesday)