-any family/appropriate magazines that we can use to collage with for future projects please!
-bread clips
-2 liter bottles for Science Force
-boxtops, etc.
*we do not need lids/caps anymore. Mrs. Avery thanks us!
Please return any completed "Get Active, Get Fit" forms
Mustang Museum
For the next two Mondays, we will visit the Mustang Museum. The featured artist is Henry Rosseau. The Mustang Museum is set up to give every child a museum experience! We will learn about the artist, view his works, analyze them, and draw conclusions! Not only will we use our HOTS, we will gain knowledge in the Arts and have fun!!
Heritage Night
Please email me if your child would like to take part and is available to play the part (listed earlier this week on the blog). It is from 5:00-5:20. Please come out to support our school and celebrate our diverse cultures! It begins at 6:00. Mustang Museum and the Book Fair will also be open during these times.
Language Arts
We will have the same spelling words and each group will have a vocabulary quiz this week as well. We will be reading from Junior Great Books (my favorite!).
Spelling Contract
Spelling contract will continue. Every week, complete the mandatory assignments. Then choose at least one activity for each of the areas: Technological Literacy and Writer’s Craft/Vocabulary Acquisition. Mandatory Assignments: Cursive 3x’s each and an End of the week Pretest with a parent/guardian signature verifying your score. Write each incorrect word 5 times.
Writer’s Craft/Vocabulary Acquisition: -choose one (any of these can be typed!)
1. Write ten awesome sentences.
2. Story Bird
3. Picture
Illustration Elaboration
4. Poetry
5. Letter.
6. Powerpoint
Presentation
7. Write
a play or reader’s theater that includes 10 words.
8. Create
a crossword puzzle - www.puzzlemaker.com – you must write the definitions for ten
words, and then solve the crossword puzzle.
Technological Literacy: - choose one
1. Create
a wordle of this week’s spelling words.
Print and attach to your contract.
http://www.wordle.net/create
2. Spelling City (words are updated already!) www.spellingcity.com and do 2 different activities with your
list.
3. www.puzzlemaker.com – create a word search, print, then find
all 20 words.
4. Storybird
(see above)
5. Powerpoint
presentation (see above)
*Have
another creative idea or suggestion?
Submit it to Ms. Serafin for approval!Visual Dictionary
Some of the kids had trouble with a few words, like freight and seize. A cool tool is the visual dictionary (I also added it to my portaportal!) http://visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php
Pink group:
Tuesday of the Other June
Spelling Words
sushi
chance
match
watches
showed
shocked
pushed
crutches
crash
chewable
batch
hitched
sharp
speech
challenge
shipwrecked
childish
shallow
chaperone
champion
Vocabulary Words
recited:
said or repeated something out loud
worrywart:
someone who worries too much
torment:
to cause great pain or suffering
adjust:
to become more and more comfortable
bureau: a low chest of drawers for use in a
bedroom
Green group:
The Fisherman and His Wife
Spelling Words
sushi
chance
match
watches
showed
shocked
pushed
crutches
crash
chewable
batch
hitched
sharp
speech
challenge
shipwrecked
childish
shallow
chaperone
champion
Vocabulary Words
dreadful-bad, awful
restless-
discontented, unhappy (can also mean not able to sit still)
obliged-had to do
something
angled- fished
with a hook
fortnight- 2 weeks
larder- a place
where food is stored; pantry
herald- messenger
scepter- a staff
or baton used as a sign of authority
Social Studies:
Here is the quiz we took today - I could really tell they had been studying and making great connections this week and as we were reviewing! We will finish our economics unit on Tuesday/Wednesday (conversation has been so rich that we are usually taking longer than I originally allot for it!), and begin FDR on Wednesday/Thursday. We will take the test for Economics on Thursday. TAG will take it that morning before they leave.
-We will test on the back side of the study guide.
Social Studies Quiz: Economics
I. Match the
definition to the correct vocabulary word.
1. ________Currency
2. ________Income
3. ________Goods
4. ________Services
5. ________Budget
6. ________Economy
a. A plan for using money
b. The form of money that people in a country
use
c. Forms of work people do for other people
d. Things people buy or sell
e. The way people make, buy, sell, and use
things.
f. The money people earn for work
II. Match the type
of resource to the definition.
7. ________Natural resource
8. ________Capital resource
9. ________Human resources
a. Things made by people that help people or
provide a service (roads, tractors, buildings)
b. The skills, knowledge, and hard work that
people bring to their jobs (manual labor, like a man building a chair or
sharing knowledge, like a lawyer)
c. Things found in nature and used by people
(trees)
10. Identify each of the following as a need or a want.
·
___________The
iPhone5
·
___________Winter
coat
·
___________Electricity
·
___________A
scooter
·
___________Clean,
running water
·
___________Manicure
at the salon
·
___________Shelter
·
___________Food
·
___________Candy
·
___________Eating
at a restaurant
11. Identify the following as a good or a service.
·
___________Frozen
Yogurt
·
___________Going
to the Doctor
·
___________A
lawyer
·
___________New
bicycle
·
___________Getting
your hair cut
·
___________A
new outfit
·
___________A
Babysitter watching you
·
___________An
Ipad
12. Why
should you use your money wisely?
Explain at least one reason.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Budget:
why would a family have a budget?
Why are budgets important?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What is something that you want to save
your money to buy?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What is the currency of the USA? ______________________________________________
16. Name one other currency from around the
world:
___________________________________
Some key words we will learn/revisit include:
Sneaky
Key Words in Word Problems:
Words like half, double,
and triple seem innocent enough… but
what do they mean in a math word problem?
Half =
divide it into two (literally half of the number they give
you). Now you try:
half of 10 = _____
half of 100 = _____
half of 50 = _____
half of 24 = _____
Double =
multiply the number times two.
double 10 = _____
double 100 = _____
double 50 = _____
double 24 = _____
Triple =
multiply the number times three
Seven tripled = _____
Ten tripled = _____
We will then apply these in area word problems.
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