Snow Day Assignments Week of March 8th

All the sunshine made me forget to post this!

Snow Day Assignments Week of March 8th

With the possibility of another snow storm coming Monday- I want to go ahead and send home next week's assignments just in case.

It's VERY IMPORTANT to bring this work back in if we do have school as we will be doing it here in class. These will be counted as grades!

READING:

Because we don't have enough books for us all to be reading the same novel, I've had to break the class into two groups and assign two different stories. We will rotate the stories when we finish.

Frindle:

Friday: Read chapters 1-3- do questions

Monday: Chapters 4-5 and questions

Tuesday: Chapters 6-8 and questions

Wednesday: Chapters 9-10 and questions

Thursday: Chapters 11-12 and questions

Friday: Chapters 13-15 and questions

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Friday: Just read Introduction to Chapter 3

Monday: Chapters 4-6 and do questions from Introduction-chapter 6

Tuesday: Chapters 7-12 and questions

Wednesday: Chapters 13-18 and questions

Thursday: Chapters 19-24 and questions

Friday: Chapters 25-30 and questions

Writing: Writing Assessment Prep- work on this Monday, Wednesday and Friday

ok- the writing assessment is RIGHT around the corner. It's very important you prepare for this at home as well.

We've been learning about the 5 paragraph essay and key points to writing. The kids have been giving a writing packet with transition works, good choice words, etc.

I'm also including in this packet the guidelines to a 5 paragraph essay as well as a sample essay.

If the kids have to write a free lance story, where there are no specific guidelines, it's important to use lots of puncuation, quotations, good choice words, and paragraphs dividing your thoughts.

You will be given two writing prompts to work on next week.

Language: Synonyms, Antonyms and Homonyms

Synonyms are different words which have the same meaning, or almost the same meaning.

Ex: stones and rocks, chair and seat, go and leave baby and infant

Antonyms are words which have opposite meanings

EX: short and tall, real and unreal hot and cold, hard and soft

Homonyms is a word that has the same pronunciation and spelling as another word, but a different meaning

EX: punch ( a drink) and punch (to hit), bat ( an animal) and bat ( baseball bat)

Tuesday: Synonyms worksheet

Wednesday: Antonyms worksheet

Thursday: Review of Synonyms, Antonyms and Homonyms worksheet

Math: Long Division- This is the last week to work on Division.

You will be doing 2 digit by 1 digit and 3 digit by 1 digit problems

Monday: division worksheet #1

Tuesday:Division worksheet #7

Wednesday: division worksheet #7r

Thursday: Follow the Arrow #1- I did one for you- you do the other

Friday: Follow the Arrow #2

SCIENCE: We are going to do Chapter 13- Electricity and Magnetism first. We have 2 weeks for this- one week for just book reading/understanding, and another week hopefully to do some really cool experiments. We usually make a flashlight, potato clock, and play with magnets!

Monday: Chapter 13 Lesson 1 and questions

Tuesday: lesson 2 and questions

Wednesday: Lesson 3 and questions

Thursday: Lesson 4 and questions

Friday: Lesson 5 and questions

Here's some cool video's and sites to visit.

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfe.zcircuit/

click view next to the picture

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfe.zelectgrl/

click view next to the picture

http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/frankenstein/

SS:

Monday: The Bill of Rights

Wednesday: How a bill becomes a law

Friday: The Constitution