Learning at Home

Hello!

If anybody needs their students user names or passwords for Lexia, Moby Max, AR, utahcompose.com, or anything else, please email me and I can get you that information!

Also, we are starting to do some practice tests at school to prepare for the end of the year RISE test. We no longer do Sage. We are now doing Rise. If you want them to take practice samplers at home they can do this by going to this link: https://ut.nextera.questarai.com/tds/#practice and they can do samplers for math, language arts, science, etc.

Also please remember that we expect the students to read at least 30 minutes daily at home as part of their homework! It is so important to develop this habit and become a lifelong reader and learner and it will help their literacy scores go way up!

Thank you!
Professor Malouf

2/19 Spelling List and HW Note

I hope everyone had a wonderful President's Day weekend! It's always nice to have a Monday off.

This week there isn't a new spelling list. We are doing Unit 4: Week 4 from last week as a post test
today and then using that extra time this week to finish up our book club books, projects, and
presentations.

We finished up Chapter 8 last week in math and are starting up Chapter 9 today. It is more algebra :)

We will work on linear equations.

Don't forget to have your students work on Moby Max Math www.mobymax.com/ut1124 at home as well
as Lexia if they haven't completed all the levels yet, and utahcompose.com for writing practice.
Students should also be reading 30 minutes daily for homework.

Our Science Fair Winners (Timothy, Dallin, Sadie, and Lincoln) will be presenting at the District
Science Fair on Wednesday, February 20th at Pleasant Grove High School! Good luck to them! We
are so proud of them.

Next week's list is here though for you if you want to start studying: Unit 4: Week 5 will actually be
for Thursday the 28th and Friday, March 1st :). Happy studying!

Unit 4: Week 5
Spelling Words

1. crumb
2. crumble
3. design
4. designate
5. sign
6. signal
7. reject
8. rejection
9. create
10. creation
11. public
12. publicity
13. confuse
14. confusion
15. magic
16. magician
17. office
18. official
19. music
20. musician

Vocabulary Words:

1. answerable—when you must explain your actions to somebody
2. lounge—a room that people use to relax
3. obligation—a moral or legal duty
4. proportion—the proper relationship between two things in size, amount, or importance
5. alliteration—when two or more words in close proximity begin with the same consonant sound
6. assonance—repeating the same or similar vowel sounds in a group of words
7. free verse—poetry that has no fixed rhyme scheme or meter and uses the natural rhythms of speech
8. narrative poem—poem that tells a story

Valentine's Day

These kids had some incredible Valentine Boxes! We had the loveliest day doing Valentine's math, madlibs, and learning about the history of the holiday. Then we had a magical ending with a grade level party with a magician and ice cream. These kids are the best.

Aquarium Visit

We got to experience a visit from the Aquarium and learn about ecosystems today! We saw 3 animals. A cocroach, a python, and a tegu!

2/11-2/15 Valentine's Day and Spelling List

I had such a great time meeting with you last week during parent-teacher-conferences. Your students are amazing!

We will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Thursday! If your child wants to bring some kind of Valentine Box/Container to receive Valentines and Valentine's for each of the students they are welcome to. We will pass those out after recess at 1:30. From 2:00-3:00 we'll have our grade level party in the gym!

Here is a class list for Valentine's:

1. Shayla

2. Cambree

3.Hallie

4.Wyatt

5.Timothy

6. Nick

7. Lincoln

8.Sara

9.Aiden

10. Kolbie

11.Daniel

12.Sadie

13. Kasen

14. Ryder

15. Claira

16. Rakell

17. Justin

18. Dallin

19. Kaycee

20. Easton

21. Aislynn

22. Kyler

23. Benjamin

24. Joseph

25. Abram

26. Kambree

27. RuthAnne


Unit 4: Week 4
Spelling Words

1. co-worker
2. co-host
3. transport
4. profile
5. interact
6. profession
7. transparent
8. submit
9. interrupt
10. postpone
11. compress
12. submarine
13. postwar
14. translate
15. suburb
16. combine
17. transfer
18. copilot
19. propose
20. subway

Vocabulary Words:

1. adjustment—a change or correction
2. chattering—having a conversation that is hard to understand
3. ember—a piece of wood or coal that doesn’t have a flame but is burning
4. mentor—a counselor or teacher who helps someone with less experience
5. nomadic—people who frequently move about rather than live in one place
6. rapport—to have a friendly relationship or understanding with someone
7. reunites—something that brings people together again
8. sturdy—strongly built and not likely to break

Moby Max, Lexia, and Utahcompose

Hello!

We have a free month trial with Moby Max that should last until March 6th for full access. After that they can still log in with limited access. The students can log in with their lexia ID as the username and the password is their initials. This is a great tool to use at home. It helps fill in learning gaps. We've been using it for math at school. It is a lot like "Lexia" but for math. There are also fun learning games on there as well. They can go to the google classroom and click on my Moby Max link www.mobymax.com/ut1124 to sign in.

Please give it a try! We took a placement test and lots of students were placed around the 4th grade level because they had so many gaps they needed to review. Some placed in 6th or 7th. It teaches concepts through 8th grade level.

Also, if your student has not passed off Lexia yet I strongly encourage you to have them work on it at home. We only have chromes for a few hours each week and we have to devote a lot of that time to essay writing, nearpods, or other technology acitivities.

If your student is behind or getting low scores on essays, have them log into utahcompose.com at home. They should all know their logins and passwords. They can catch up at home and also practice writing with other given prompts.

Thank you!

Science Fair

The students did an amazing job on their science fair projects. I'm so proud of their hard work! Especially proud of Sadie, Timothy, Lincoln, and Dallin for winning!