Friday, August 19, 2011

Language Arts:
Spelling Test Lesson 5, No homework
**note** Spelling tests are every 5 lessons and may or may not fall on a Friday.

Reading:
We read Holes chapter 4-5 out loud, discussed comprehension, No homework

Math:
Discussed/graded lesson 2 homework, introduced lesson 3 on using money to illustrate place value, Homework-Lesson 3 written practice (most students had time to finish in class, but if not, it was assigned as homework). 
**note** Saxon math tests are scheduled for every 10 lessons.  The tests do not always fall on a Friday.  When students do have a math test, they will not have homework for that night.  Additionally, students have been told many times that they need to bring only a couple of math homework sheets (or graph paper), or at least 1 sheet to class every day.  At no such time was it ever mentioned that they needed to bring all 130 copies.  I have demonstrated how to set up the math homework sheet if students are going to make their own on the graph paper.  They were shown to make the boxes 10 across and 10 down, with 3 total boxes going across.  There are 30 total number of math problems for homework.