Mrs. Saria Ott

Assignments and Announcements

Feb 6 -- Ski Day- Out at 11:15 am Feb 7 -- 100th day of school! Feb 14 -- Valentine's Day Feb 16 -- Field Trip to US Synthetic Feb 20 -- No school- President's Day Feb 21 -- Famous American Report Due Feb 22&23 -- Parent Teacher Conferences

"Famous American" Report will be due in less than 3 weeks. This report can be about a President, an American Inventor, or some other notable American. On Monday Afternoon Ski Days, I will be at Sundance on the slopes. Can't wait to see you there! ******* Another great week ahead. Here's our plan of learning: Math:  Problems sets each day.   Social Studies: Finishing Chapter 8: Middle States. Study guide will come home Tuesday. Study for test on Thursday. Spelling: Unit 19- "AR" words. Memorization: No memorization this week. Science: Review and test on Friday this week. Levels of Organisms, Causes of extinction, energy pyramids. Grammar: Adverbs and Adjectives begin this week. Gladly! Composition: "Picture This" Compositions. In class, we will select a picture and then write a narrative to accompany the picture. Leadership: Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. We're talking about goals and long term planning.  ************************ Famous American Report Guidelines Each Report is Due Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Each report must contain: ü  Title Page: Name of your Famous American centered on your page. Your name should appear in small writing centered near the bottom. ü  2 full pages (12 font) double spaced report containing the following information: o   Name of the Famous American o   Where the person is from (Where were they born? Where did they grow up?) o   What kind of education did this person have? o   What are important dates in this person’s life? o   Who are important people in this person’s life? o   What did they do that is notable? o   Tell in detail, what makes this person famous.   ü  1 page of an illustration (or illustrations) of the item invented Bibliography: This just needs to be a simple list of sources used. If you found the information on the Internet, please list the site you used. *********************** Spelling Unit 19 “AR” 1.       argue 2.       forewarn 3.       apartment 4.       dwarf 5.       argument 6.       partial 7.       archery 8.       hardly 9.       barber 10.    guard 11.    warning 12.    toward 13.    warmth 14.    starve 15.    quarter 16.    harvest 17.    carve 18.    carpet 19.    carton 20.    reward     Bonus guardian sergeant ********************** Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein ********************** As always, I try to be available to you- via cell phone, email, or in person.  saria.ott@gmail.com or cell 801-822-6101 or home: 801-226-1090 Mrs. Saria Ott

Learning plan, week of Feb 6 - Feb 10
Subject	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Math	No Math Homework	Math Problem Set #81: Fraction Manipulatives	Math Problem Set #82:Adding Decimals	Math Problem Set #83: Converting Units of length	Math Problem Set #84: Improper Fractions
Reading	Are you reading a Newberry Award book?	Keep Reading.	Love to read.	Yay, readers!	Great readers succeed!
Spelling	Write words 3 times each.	Write the spelling words without Consonants.	Pyramid words: Write words, each time omitting 1 letter to form a pyramid.	Pretest in class today. Correct misspelled words- 3x each.	Final Spelling Test in Class Today.
Social Studies		Study Guide for Chap. 8 comes home tonight. Study!	Study for TEST on Thursday!
Science		Study Guide Comes home tonight for TEST on Friday		Science TEST tomorrow.

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