Homework and Weekly Blog Resources

Homework:

• ELA:
• Writing:  Use our SAT bonus word, salubrious, in a sentence that includes a comma and sentence variety.  Salubrious is an adjective that means "promoting health." 
• Weekly LA homework:
• Vocab:  Please study vocab each night so that by Thursday the children know the words well.
• For spelling, please continue to practice at home, and in cursive handwriting.  Their writing declined last week without spelling contract. 
• Math:
• Time page front and back (it's on the hours only - be sure to be neat on the drawing hands side and that the hour hands are shorter than the minute hands)
• HOTS POW - due Friday
• Social Studies:
• Finish lesson page if not completed in class - pg. 44 - chapter 8 lesson 4 page
• Study for test :)  See study guide posts from last week!

MATH

We will take a Time Vocab quiz on Wednesday.  TAG will take it in the AM before they leave. 

Time Vocabulary

1 day = 24 hours

1 hour = 60 minutes

1 minute = 60 seconds

1 quarter hour = 15 minutes

1 half hour = 30 minutes

A.M. = in between midnight and noon (ante meridiem)

P.M. = in between noon and midnight (post meridiem)

Quarter past = 15 past the current hour

Quarter till = 15 minutes until the next hour

Half past = 30 minutes past the current hour

Hour hand = little hand on the clock that shows what hour it is

(rotates around the clock 1 time in 12 hours)

Minute hand = the longer hand on the clock that shows minutes

(rotates around the clock 1 time in 60 minutes)

Elapsed time = the total amount of time that passes from the beginning time to the ending time

Today we began Unit 6 in math.  It is a 23 day until, which has us testing tentatively around next Wednesday for the time portion of the test (TAG will test Tuesday), and the final SAMS unit test on Friday, March 9. 

Essential Questions:

1.  What time is it?  2.  What are the parts of the clock?  3.  How do we measure time? 4.  How do you use A.M. and P.M. when saying the time?

1.  How do we measure time? 2.  How do you use A.M. and P.M. when saying the time? 3.  How do we measure time to the half hour? 4.  How do we measure time to the quarter hour?

1.  How do you tell time to the nearest minute using a clock?

1.  What is elapsed time? 2.  How do you find elapsed time?

1.  How do you find elapsed time?

How do I convert metric units?

How do I estimate using metric units?

What is perimeter? How do I find perimeter?

What is perimeter? How do I find perimeter?

What is area? How do I find area?

How do I find the area of a shape? How are perimeter and area alike and different?

How do I find the area of a shape? How are perimeter and area alike and different?

Spelling and Vocab:

Please study vocab each night so that by Thursday the children know the words well.

For spelling, please continue to practice at home, and in cursive handwriting.  Their writing declined last week without spelling contract. 

Both groups are in a novel right now.

Pink:  Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Spelling Words                 

stepped

entered

reaching

allowing

argued

speaking

reading

unfolding

finished

closing

hugged

belonged

divided

determined

rewarding

occurred

controlled

injured

permitting

practicing

Vocabulary Words

Segment One (pp. 1-33)

amuse – to please someone’s sense of humor

urgent – calling for immediate attention

duplicated – to make double of

catering – to provide a supply of food

gondola – a truck with low sides used for transporting manufactured goods

enclosure – an enclosed space

          (enclose – to close in)

duplex - a house having separate apartments for two families, esp. a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.

Green:  Stone Fox Week 2

Stone Fox- Week 2

Spelling Words

bear

tear

haircut

stairs

wear

airplane

compare

repair

pear

prepare

stare

glare

sharing

fairy

aware

Vocabulary Words

ricochet- to rebound at least once from the surface

proceed- to go forward after stopping

legal- having to do with the law

authority- the right and power to control persons or things

clench- to hold on to tightly

deserted- abandoned; to leave someone or something you are supposed to stay with

sturdy- strongly made or built