Tuesday 4/24/2012

• Math -  Turned in the lesson on finding the Area of Triangles - Today's topic was Parallelograms - no homework today 
• Science with Mrs. Nelson
• Journals - orange journals were due today: every student is expected to write a journal entry for each school day.
• Spelling - students were expected to sort the spelling words, write the rule, and write three acrostic spelling words (the green spelling group was asked only to illustrate each of their words).  Almost all students finished the assignment in class. 
• I Have/Who Has - GCF and LCM
• Reading - Students reading the earthquake book read with me today.  All other students read their assigned book on their own, and wrote down five questions from their reading. This assignment is part of their Independent Work grade.
• English - turned in page 262 (1-22) - Today's topic was Adverb or Preposition? - homework: English page 264 (1-24) - due tomorrow
• Social Studies - We discussed and took notes on the Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails. Homework - students need to draw a map of the trails including an outline of each of the states the trail goes through (due tomorrow)
• Art with Mrs. Lyman