Thursday Homework

Wow!  It is hard to believe tomorrow is our last Friday!!! I really appreciate your support this year.  We had  really full classes, but the students did a great job and we accomplished more than I ever imagined.  I do wonder, however, if this blog was useful to you or your student?  

If you get a minute, please let me  
know with a quick e-mail: nina.abbott@springfield.k12.or.us

Last assignment: Speeches are due on Monday, and many students in my reading class will begin giving their speech tomorrow.

Tuesday Homework

Language Arts Homework:  The Rough Draft for Oregon Trail speeches is due tomorrow.

Thursday Homework

Reading: Parent signature needed on Oregon Trail speech letter.

Math:  Making Change from a $10.00 Bill

Our Spotlight Performance is at 6:30 p.m. tonight!  Please report to your classroom at 6:15 p.m.

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling:  CCC with this week's words from the Theme 6 story, Skylark.

Thursday Homework

Reading : Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passages.

Math: Decimals:Hundredths 

Spelling: Spelling Test is tomorrow

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Social Studies: Parent edit paragraphs 1 and 2 for Journal 3

No spelling sentences were assigned today.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to  practice their fluency passage.

Math: Decimals p. 40 and 11-4 Relating Whole Numbers and Decimals p. 281/282 (#1-11 on p.282)

SS: Paragraph 2 Journal 3

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.

Spelling: CCC for this week's Theme 4 story, Sing to the Stars.

FYI: Parent edit for social studies Journal 3 will be Wednesday night !

Thursday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Math: 11-3 Comparing Decimal Numbers to Hundredths p. 279/280

Monday Homework

Reading : Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling:  CCC with Theme 4's story, The Last Dragon.

Social Studies: Students need to finish paragraph 4, Journal 2 and have their parent sign and edit  the rough draft.

Monday Homework (continued from earlier Monday post)

Social Studies: Rough Draft for paragraph 1 Journal 2.  This assignment was started in class today.

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their reading fluency passage.

Spelling: CCC with Theme 4's story, Marven of the Great North Woods

Wednesday Homework

Math: Hot Fudge Fraction Review p.30 and Area and Perimeter #4


Some students will need to complete the final copy of Journal 1

Tuesday Homework

Math: Unit 9, Lesson 6 Exploring Circle Graphs p.235/236
Illuminations Challenge: draw a shape with the same area and perimeter.  Consider complex shapes


We worked on our final copies for Journal 1 in Social Studies. Some students may need to finish at home.  Tomorrow we will face our first fate and move on the trail.

Monday Homework

No reading or spelling homework this week.

Math: Fractional Parts, page 19 and 9-4 homework side only p.231

Social Studies: Parent edit Journal 1, paragraphs 4 and 5

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling: Spelling Sentences

Social Studies: Final Copy Journal 1, Paragraphs 1,2,3

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Math: Understanding Fractions 9-1 pages 225/226 (Not including #13, 14, and 15)

Social Studies: Journal 1, Paragraph 1 Rough Draft with parent edit and signature.

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  New fluency passages will be handed out tomorrow.  Students need to practice this passage each night.

Spelling: CCC with this week's words from the Theme 5 story, Lou Gehrig. 


Social Studies: Supply List.  Students may use calculators.

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to continue to practice their fluency passage.

Math: Word Problems #1-4

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.

Math: Students in Room 13 math class have been assigned Area and Perimeter #1 for review before tomorrow's test.

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.

Some students have been given math practice problems for homework tonight.  We are currently assessing area and perimeter and are trying to firm up any students who demonstrate they need extra practice.

Spelling: No spelling this week

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.

Due to the shortened week this week, I am opting to assign extra math homework and no spelling sentences tonight.

Math: Area and Perimeter Packet #3

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.

Math: Area and Perimeter packet and fix ups on Area and Perimeter worksheet

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.


Spelling: CCC with this week's words from the Theme 3 story, "Heat Wave."

Thursday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature. Students also need to practice their passage reading fluency.

Math: Area with Missing Side p.1 and 2

Spelling tests for this week's words will be given on Friday.

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.

Spelling: Spelling Sentences with this week's words.

Students will have an open book social studies test on Chapter 4 tomorrow.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read 15 minutes orally and get a parent signature.

Math: Lesson 2-4 and 2-6 p. 79/80 and 83/84

Monday Homework

Reading:  Students with reading folder need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.

Spelling:  CCC for Theme 3's story, Cendrillon.

Thursday Homework

Reading: All students with a reading folder need to read aloud for 15 minutes and get a parent signature on their reading folder.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Math: Practice with Area and Perimeter pages 105/106 and Calculating Area and Perimeter #1

Tonight is our very last night to read for the Ridgeview's Read-a-Thon!  Every student needs to read as much as possible tonight.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  We only have 3 more days for the Read-a-Thon!  Everyone needs to read!

Math: Units of Area and Perimeter p.101/102 and Problem Solving p. 71

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling: CCC's with this week's Theme 3 story, The Stranger.

Math: Students in Room 13's math group need a parent signature on their division facts letter that went home today.

Thursday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Please remember to get a parent signature for Ridgeview's Read-a-Thon as well.

Math: Area Practice ps5 #75 and Kinds of Quadrilaterals 100A(please name the ones you know)

Spelling: Practice your words for Friday's test

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  All students in Room 13 need to continue to read each night and get a parent signature for the Ridgeview Read-a-Thon.  The Read-a-Thon ends on February 28!

Spelling: Spelling sentences with this week's words.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  These students also need to practice their passage fluency.

Math: 2-3 Kinds of Quadrilaterals

All students need to read and get a parent signature for the Read-a-Thon! Room 13 is doing a fabulous job!

Monday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.   If your student does not have a reading folder anymore, he/she should be bringing home a letter telling you they reached benchmark on their EasyCBM winter passage reading fluency and no longer need a parent signature each night.  Congratulations to these students and their families!

Spelling: CCC with high frequency words

Thursday Homework

Math: 2-2 Lines, Line Segments, and Rays p.75/76

Students need to read and get a parent signature for Ridgeview's Read-a-Thon

Wednesday Homework

Math: Multiplication Practice Worksheet (Students doing 2X2 or 2X3 multiplication need to do their problems on graph paper or lined paper.  Graph paper was given to students today.)

• Class Activity 2-2 p. 99/100 was started in class today, but needs to be finished tonight for homework.

Students need to read and get parent signatures for the Ridgeview Read-a-Thon!

Math: 2-1 Congruence and Symmetry p. 73/74

Students need to read and get a parent signature on their green Read-a-Thon forms.

Monday Homework

Math: Multiplication Worksheet

Monday Homework

There will not be any spelling or reading homework assigned in Room 13 this week due to the short 3 day week.  However,  all students need to read each night to continue their progress in Reading Counts.  In addition, students need to continue to practice their division facts each night.  Math homework will be assigned as usual on Tuesday night.

Thursday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder  need to get a parent signature and read for 15 minutes.  Please also practice your reading fluency passage.

Math: Raccoon  Multiplication 4x1 page # 58

All students continue to practice their Division Facts 0-10 and 0-12 .

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder must read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling:  CCC with this week's words for the Theme 5 story, Happy Birthday Dr. King.

There is no math homework for Room 13 math students....  All students need to practice their division facts.

Wednesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their reading fluency passages.

Spelling:  Spelling sentences with this week's spelling words.

Students need to practice their division facts through 10's.  Division Facts through 12's will be practiced next week.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their passage for reading fluency.

Math: Lesson 1-6 and 1-9 which will be our final review for Unit 1 before our Unit 1 Test tomorrow.

Monday Homework

Reading:  Students with reading folders need to read for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling:  CCC with this week's words.  This week's words include 10 high frequency words: because, toward, special, there, their, they're, a lot, fourth, forth and any words students have missed on the 2 previous week's words.

We are now practicing division facts; multiplication fact fluency grades are ready for Term 2 progress reports.

Thursday Homework

Reading:  Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.

Spelling: Students will be tested on this week's spelling words tomorrow.

Math: Multiplication practice I Love to Multiply p. 58.  We have started assessing division facts this week.

Wednesday Homework

Reading:  Students with reading folders need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their passage fluency page for testing later this week.

Spelling: Spelling sentences for these words: howl, bounce, jaw, couch, dawn, false, sauce, wood, put, push, tool, full, roof, and pull,  plus another word from this week's 30 words (student choice).  Students will be tested on all 30 words on Friday.

Tuesday Homework

Reading: Students with a reading folder need to read orally for 15 minutes and get a parent signature.  Students also need to practice their fluency passage.  Easy CBM words per minute scores (PRF) will be taken later this month and students who consistently practice each night should see improvement in their words per minute.

Spelling:  CCC with this week's words: American Stories Spelling Review

Math: Unit 1 Lesson 9 pages 69/70.  This will be our last week assessing multiplication facts.  We will move on to division facts next week.

I hope everyone had a great winter break!  It is hard to believe it is 2013. WOW!