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Monday, February 25, 2013

Week of February 25th

A couple of items:
1) Just a reminder - the new dismissal policy will begin on Monday. Our class will be dismissing under the bridge.

2)  As promised, here are the links for the COACH books mentioned in yesterday's notice. Please send in the check by Monday if you are ordering.

MATH:   http://www.triumphlearning.com/new-york-common-core-coach-student-edition-24187.html

ELA:   http://www.triumphlearning.com/common-core/implementation-and-transition/new-york-common-core-coach-student-edition.html




Friday Homework:


Math - RALLY Number Sense and Operations - pages 30 - 40.
ELA - RALLY Sequence packet - pages 1 - 15.


Science:
1) Complete your Oobleck observation. Be sure to include sketches and a paragraph about how the oobleck you made is similar to or different from the oobleck in the book.
2) 2 sheets. The information can be found in the text  between pages 2 and 59. We will be having a test on this material on March 11th. I will give a study guide next week.

Upcoming tests -
Religion - Thursday on first two commandments
Math - fraction quiz on Wednesday on what we have learned so far. (Identifying fractions, fractions on a number line, adding and subtracting fractions).


Thursday Homework

2 notices and March calendar went home.


Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or Newbery books. Logs due tomorrow.

Wordly Wise – midterm test (Yes, you may use the book!)

Math – Make models of the addition and subtraction problems (4 of each). Do in notebook.

Social Studies – Make two ecosystem charts (living/nonliving things). One should be from the SS text pictures on pages 80 and 82. One should be the view from your house of your neighborhood. You may sketch or take a photo to go with that one.






Wednesday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.  Remember to log. Logs are due Friday.
Math - workbook page 96
Social Studies - read pages 77 - 83in text and take notes for each of the sections as we have done in the past by writing the title of the section and at least one important fact from each section.
Religion - complete open book test if you did not complete it in class.


Tuesday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.  Remember to log. Logs are due Friday.
Anyone who still wishes to send in the Six Flags log must send it in by tomorrow.
Math - sheets.
Anyone who did not do page 95 from last night should make it up tonight. My apologies for leaving it off the homework page.
Science - read pages A 40 - 45 in Science text and complete the art ecosystem chart in your notebook.

Wordly Wise - study!  Test is tomorrow


Monday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.  We need to be finishing up TofD.
ELA - Do planning page for essay. I should see three sections:
How did Shadowtail behave at the beginning of the passage.
How did Shadowtail behave at the end of the passage.
What caused his behavior to change.

Remember to fill each of those lists with details from the passage.  Do NOT write the essay and do not finish question 30.

Religion - think about ways to show love for God and for your neighbor this week.
Wordly Wise - study!  Test is Wednesday

Friday, February 15, 2013

Vacation Homework

Happy Vacation

The following work needs to be completed over break. You can space it out or do it in chunks, but please don't get help!  I need to know what you can do on your own, so please, no parental, sibling, or tutor help on these. 
Parents, if you would like to work on a skill you notice your child got wrong, that's fine, but please don't correct the work. If I think it's all correct, I won't review the skills in class.  Thank you!


I would like each child to have the following when they return from break -
~ one set of 3 x 5 lined index cards
~ working highlighters (Many have broken or run out)
~ post-its (Again, many have been lost or used up)
~ sharpened pencils and pens (This is becoming a problem  :(  )
~ test prep folders. (Many students already have one, but it's better to have one for Math and one for ELA since they're already bulging!)

Homework:

RALLY Reading - Rally Packet Practice Test 1 in the back. I had the children fold over the correct pages since they're not numbered.  It starts with Atalanta and the Golden Apples, and ends with Peaceful Paintings in Troubled Times.

Again, please don't correct the answers (or help with the writing). I will be differentiating practice based on which skills individual students need help with. Thanks!

Wordly Wise - D and E.  Test will be on Wednesday, February 27th.

RALLY Math - We already did questions 1 - 10, so begin with #11 on page 21  and continue through # 27 on page 38.   Do all work in the corresponding notebook.

Enjoy the time off!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Week of February 11th


REMINDERS:

Dismissal tomorrow is at 11:30. There is no afterschool.
Tomorrow is a N.U.T Day

Thursday Homework


Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.

Wordly Wise – 10 B and C
Science – Read pages  R 2 – 3 and 6 – 11.
      On looseleaf make a list of some ways you use measurement in your life.
The Nicest Thing. – Read and write:
1)      Your favorite from the stories.
2)      Nicest thing anyone ever did for you.
3)      Nicest thing you ever did for anyone else.


Wednesday Homework -


1. Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.

2. Religion –  Read pages 231 – 233. Think about what you plan to do
during Lent.

3. Social Studies – pages 74 – 75.

4. Math – study for test!  I sent home a sheet about what is on test.

Dress in Red tomorrow  -- $2


Tuesday Homework -

1. Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux or your Newbery book.
2. Math - 2 sheets.  Study for Thursday's test which will be division and word problems related to multiplication and division.
3. ELA - packet on Abraham Lincoln
4. Study for tomorrow's test. Study the Take Home test, the work in your notebook, and the review sheet I gave you. There will be one part that is open book that requires you to write about what you have learned. The rest of the test is not open book.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Weekend Update

Reminder - Home School Meeting on Monday night. The focus is state testing in grades 4, 6, 8 (also of importance to students in grades 3, 5, and 7).


Read for 30 minutes.
Math - finish practice sheet on multiplicative comparison.
ELA - packet


I promised to link this video that we watched in school.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Week of February 4th

Thursday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux (or your new Newbery book if you've finished TofD).
Wordly Wise - Test tomorrow.
Social Studies - test next Wednesday.
Math - Finish sheet. Make sure to follow directions and do all parts!
STUDY 2 D shapes!
REFLEX (I will be checking. I am getting too many low usage notices!)

Religion - finish pages 116 - 118
ELA - snowman cookie packet


Wednesday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux (or your new Newbery book if you've finished TofD).
Wordly Wise - 9 E. Remember there is a test this Friday.
Social Studies - test next Wednesday. I will return Take Home tests to study from. in the meantime, study notes and vocabulary.
Math - STUDY 2 D shapes!
REFLEX (I will be checking. I am getting too many low usage notices!)
Sheet (both sides)


Tuesday Homework -

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux (or your new Newbery book if you've finished TofD).
Wordly Wise - 9 C and D. Remember there is a test this Friday.
Social Studies - Take Home test - due Wednesday.
Math - STUDY 2 D shapes!
Reflex.
Sheet of 4 questions. Cut out each question, glue or tape into notebook and then solve the problem underneath. Write an equation for the problem and do the check.
ELA - Rosa Parks sheets

Monday Homework -

We went over the Geometry that caused problems this weekend. This is one of those gap topics that students are expected to know by now so we can do more advanced geometry with measuring angles.

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux.
Wordly Wise - 9 A and B. Remember there is a test this Friday.
Social Studies - finish vocab.  Take Home test - due Wednesday.
Math - staple (or glue or tape) shape sheets into notebook. STUDY!
Reflex.

Religion- finish the chapter review if you did not finish in class.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Weekend Homework

Read for 30 minutes in Tale of Despereaux.
ELA - Cause and Effect booklet pages 10 - 15.
Geometry book - pages 5 -19
Wordly Wise - test on Friday