Assignments Week of April 26th

Assignments Week of April 26th

READING:
Back to our Book: The Down and Up Fall

Vocabulary:
Transformed: changed; made to look or be different
Investigate: look into thoroughly to find out something
Enthusiastically: eagerly; in a way that shows strong approval
Décor: the decorative style of a room
Apparently: seeming to be
Corridor: long, narrow hallway or passageway

Monday:
Review Vocabulary
Groups Red and Black: Make up your own riddle to help you remember the meanings of the vocabulary words
Groups Blue and Orange: Use the words in a 1 page story
Group Green: Do w/s with teacher

Whole group do w/b 131 practice books

Tuesday: Whole Group reading of story
Read Amazing Amazon silently and then do w/b 131
Wednesday: Book report Wednesday- DUE the 30th
Thursday: Small Group Re-Reading of Story
Discuss and do questions
Friday: Test BOOK REPORTS DUE!

4th Grade Crazy Creations project: Rdg and Language Project
We are presenting our crazy creations today!!!


PHOTO STORY:
Next we will be creating a counting book. The kids will each have their own page in the book- they will illustrate it, etc as well. It will be a counting book geared for 1st graders.
We then will create a photo story on the computer where the kids will be recorded reading their pages of the bookJ

SPELLING:
Monday: w/b 107 Tuesday: w/b108 Wednesday: w/b109 Thursday: Pretest Friday: Test

difficult, beginning, direction, discover, excellent, important, imagine, energy, remember, beautiful, dangerous, government, interest, becoming, description, engineer, wonderful

BONUS WORDS:
temperature, humidifier, thermometer, moisturize, sweltering


Math: Geometry- Last week
Next week we will be adding extra math in the mornings. It will be a big review of all we have learned throughout the year. We will be starting with place valueJ

Monday: Intro to Area- board review- brainpop- do w/s 31 together
Tuesday: Review again- do worksheet 21/22 for grade
Do activity in class
Wednesday: Intro to Perimeter- board review- brainpop- do 14-6 f/b
Thursday: Review perimeter- w/s 54- homework page 60 (14-6 Reteaching)
Friday: final review- TEST on perimeter and area. Will be allowed to use a calculator AND your journal notes

We will have to include symmetry in the mornings before lunch next week. We are just out of time.

VISIT\
http://www.mrsrenz.net/mathsites.htm#area-perim

SCIENCE:
Monday: Present to Mission Control today!
Tuesday: Watch Charlie Brown Space Station movie
Wednesday: We will be learning about plant and animal cells now. We will be learning the different parts of each and the differences. We are making edible animal cells next week and also writing a cell "song".
Today is the intro day. I have a few short video clips and a word search.
Thursday: Notes on the parts of the cells. Labeling our diagrams
Friday: Who am I activity and word search .


SS: Civil War --------- Community Service/ Our Community
Monday: last day of the Civil War Stimulation
Tuesday: finish up discussing the civil war. Watch short video clip
Wednesday: Start working on a Davis Thomas Volunteer Community Calendar
Thursday: cont.
Friday: cont.