Assignments Week of April 5th

Assignments Week of April 5th

READING:

Back to our Book: Fire pages 505

Vocabulary:

dedication: the will to keep working hard on a task

billowing: rising in big waves

brigade: a group of people organized to do something

ventilate: to create a vent, or an opening, for letting air in and out

flammable: easily set on fire

curfew: law or rule that says something cannot happen after a certain time

Monday:

Review Vocabulary

Groups Red and Black: use the vocabulary in a 1 page story

Groups Blue and Orange: Do w/s 90 on own

Group Green: Do w/s with teacher

Tuesday: Whole Group reading of story

Create a small poster about fire safety

Wednesday: Start New book report

Make a Game Board: Due April 30th

Thursday: Small Group Re-Reading of Story

Discuss and do questions

Friday: Test

POETRY UNITS:

Monday: Creature Alliteration Tuesday: Haiku Wednesday: Five Senses Thursday: Color Poem Friday: Concrete Poem

Writing: WE WILL BE HITTING THIS HARD THIS WEEK- We will be taking our assessment around the end of the month/beginning of April

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.

SPELLING:

Monday: w/b 78 Tuesday: w/b 79 Wednesday: w/b 80 Thursday: Pretest Friday: Test

doctor, dollar, power, sugar, corner, danger, ladder, labor, cellar, other, motor, hunger, calendar, horror, officer, finger, director, master, regular

firefighter, inferno, inflammable, fiery, smoldering

Math: Order of Operations

Monday: Intro to Order of Operations- Brainpop video- visit the following sites and do Smart Board Activities

http://www.mrsrenz.net/mathsites.htm#order

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

P: parenthesis E: exponents M: multiply D: divide A: add S: Subtract

Tuesday: Review and do w/s 1

Wednesday: w/s 2

Thursday: w/s 3

Friday: complete review- do w/s 4 and revisit online activities

SCIENCE: Simple Machines- Chapter 16

This is only 2 lessons

By FRIDAY: we will be having a marshmallow catapult contest. Start working on it Monday after school and then Wednesday and Thursday in class with launch day on Friday

You'll get the directions on Monday!

Monday: Intro with Brain Pop- Read Lesson 1 and do checkpoint questions

Tuesday: Read Lesson 2 and do checkpoint questions

Wednesday and Thursday: Work in class on your marshmallow catapult

Friday: Launch day

Here's some fun sites to go with Chapter 15 and 16- These are great sites- you'll LOVE them

http://edheads.org/

http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/simple-machines/activities/simple-machines-1/

http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/goldburgertogo/

SS: Geography Centers Unit

We will be spending about 1-2 weeks learning about Geography including maps, mystery countries, landforms,bodies of water and time zones. I will have these things in different centers for them to rotate around and do some activities. There really isn't something to send home for them to do as we will be doing activities in the classroom.