Class Assignments:
Week of September 27, 1999:
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Math: | Skills classes Homeroom math: Monday - Quiz on Statistics Unit - all work in Tues. - Fri. Work with survey data and circle graphs. |
| Reading: | Read The White Umbrella. Work
on - margin notes, vocabulary, and discussion questions. Continue reading a novel of choice for Reading Workshop. Also read it at home! |
| Language Arts: | Writing folders - Work on Library of the Future essay. (Skills focus: essay organization.) Begin "Bing, Bang, Bongo" writing method. |
| Spelling Words: | Review List: completing, exciting, prepares, completely, requirement, disappear, precaution, prediction,
recovered, research, chocolate, difference, positive,
usually, vegetable (test Friday) |
| Social Studies: |
Pp. 88-95 in text on early history. Complete wb 16 and questions #1, 3, 4 on p.95. Begin reading Lesson 2, p.97. Use an internet site to find out about stone-age culture (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/menu.html) |
| Health: | Current Health Continue pp. 16-19. "Tackling Prejudice" |
| Science: | Complete circuit activities: Text pages 232-235. Activity: Create an electromagnet. In class discussion and reading and take notes on pages 226-235 for Friday's test. Friday: Test on Lessons 1 and 2 in text. |
Homework: | Monday - Review Spelling, Finish Soc. St. p. 95 if necessary,
Read for 20 min. in your novel. Tuesday - English Simple Subject/Simple Predicate Worksheet, Study Spelling and Math Facts, Read for 20 min. in your novel Wednesday - Science Review p. 248 #1-7 and p. 249 #1-3, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel Thursday - (Health) Share Agenda with parents, Math Survey and Circle Graph worksheet, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel. |
Week of September 20, 1999:
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Math: | Skills classes Homeroom math: Continue Mathland measurement unit and create a model of "the average student" in our class |
| Reading: | Monday: Performance Test on Cricket in the Road. Continue reading a novel of choice for Reading Workshop. Also read it at home! Begin reading "White Umbrella" - margin notes, vocabulary, and discussion questions. Also Wb pages 19-20. Literary Skill: Inferences |
| Language Arts: | Writing folders - Complete "Flip Flop Girl" summary. (Skills focus: Complete sentences and end punctuation, essay organization.) |
| Spelling Words: | chocolate, difference, generous, listening, mathematics, positive,
restaurant, temperature, usually, vegetable (test Friday) |
| Social Studies: | G3 in text. Answer all questions. Continue reading pp. 88-95 in text on early history. Use an internet site to find out about stone-age culture (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/menu.html) |
| Health: | Current Health pp. 16-19. "Tackling Prejudice" |
| Science: | Complete circuit activities: Text pages 232-235. Activity: Create an electromagnet. In class discussion and reading. |
Homework: | Monday - Tuesday - Math Worksheet Wednesday - Science text p. 476, Lesson 2, #1-7, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel Thursday - (Health) Share Agenda with parents, Math worksheet SP7, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel. |
Week of September 13, 1999:
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Math: | Begin skills classes with different sixth grade teachers (1/2 hour each day) Homeroom math: begin Mathland measurement unit and create a model of "the average student" in our class |
| Reading: | Begin reading a novel of choice for Reading Workshop. Also read it at home! Continue assignments (margin notes, vocabulary, and discussion questions) on "Tuesday of the Other June" and "Cricket in the Road" (Focus: Chracterization and Descriptive Language) Extra credit: research the rules of "Cricket" and give a class presentation with a visual aid |
| Language Arts: | Begin Writing folders - Create a life map. (Skills focus: Complete sentences and end punctuation) |
| Spelling Words: | disappear, disregard, prearrange, precaution, prediction,
recondition, recovered, research, resurface (test Friday) |
| Social Studies: | G1-G3 in text. Answer all questions. Create a map from a picture. Begin reading pp. 88-95 in text on early history. Use an internet site to find out about stone-age culture (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/menu.html) |
| Health: | Current Health pp. 14-15. Set academic goals |
| Science: | Activity: make a parallel electrical circuit that works. In class discussion and reading. |
Homework: | Monday - Math Worksheet SP4, Spelling Wb13 and Sentences due Wednesday, Read for 20 min. in your novel Tuesday - Math Worksheet SP9, Monday Spelling Assignment, Read for 20 min. in your novel Wednesday - Electric Circuits worksheet, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel Thursday - (Health) Share Agenda with parents, Math worksheet SP7, Study Spelling for test, Read for 20 min. in your novel. |
Week of September 7, 1999:
Math: Review basic skills and Skills Testing
Reading: Begin Reading Workshop folders
.........Please be thinking about a good book to read!
.........Read "The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea" p. 7 (Focus: Reading Strategies)
Language Arts: Begin Writing folders
Spelling Words: completing, exciting, requiring, imagining, excites,
.........prepares, imagines, completely, excitement, requirement (test Friday)
Social Studies: G1-G3 in text. Answer all questions. Create a map from a picture
Health: Current Health p. 23-25. Set good nutrition goals
Science: Activity: make an electrical circuit that works
Homework: Tuesday - Math Review, Study Spelling
.........Wednesday - (Health) Make meal plans, Study Spelling
.........Thursday - (Health) Share Agenda with parents, write out academic goal, Study Spelling