Tuesday HW (and makeup work)

Homework:

• Math:
• Finish study guide
• review for test
• HOTS Pow
• ELA
• Spelling Contract
• Science
• read coastal plain book three times

Makeup work/Lessons review for absent students:

Ms. Serafin ELA Make-up Tuesday, January 22, 2013

·         Spelling:  Review spelling words. 

o   Notice the pattern – er vs. –est. 

§  What is the difference in these suffixes? 

§  What part of speech is every word?

o   Answers: 

§  they are all adjectives.

§  –er and –est are used to compare. 

-      er compares two things

o   She is prettier than a frog!

-      est compares three or more things.

o   She is the prettiest girl in the whole world!    

·         Each of the root words is one or two syllables long, which is why they use –er or –est.  What happens to a longer word like beautiful or disgusting?

o   We use more or most depending if it comparing two or more than two things.

§  More = comparing two things

-      This is more difficult than yesterday’s homework

§  Most = comparing more than two things

-      This is the most difficult homework we’ve had all year!

·         Grammar:  Review Grammar book to continue to apply the rule

o   Read page 310 for clarification of the above mini-lesson

o   Complete 1-15 on pages 310-311 – write the number of the problem and answers only.

·         Guided Reading:  Read “Turtle Bay”

o   In your RRJ, do the following: 

§  Look for any unknown vocabulary words

§  Make connections:  why did Ms. Serafin pick this story for the class?  Give evidence for each connection

§  Character analysis:  list traits and make statements based on evidence in the text

§  Ask questions

·         Writing: 

o   Revise and edit your animal research report (if you have conferred with me, you may move on to final copy, if not, neatly write your second draft and be prepared to confer with me

o   Personal narrative:  write a snapshot about being sick.  How do you feel?  What do you see? Hear? Smell? Taste?  Touch?  Write a paragraph including these sensory details.  Use writer’s craft to make it interesting and engaging.

·         Whole group reading:  Mr. Popper’s Penguins

o   Be thinking of a HOTS project (see the attached choiceboard) to develop as we read.  We are currently 1/3 of the way done with the book.   It will be creative and interactive! 

Math

§  Review geometry glossary.  Make sure each quadrilateral has a total of 4 angles (4 right angles or 2 obstuse and 2 acute angles.)

§  Review making funky quadrilaterals.

o   Some ideas include a kite, the pointy boomerang and the triangle with a piece cut off.  Remember, it cannot have any parallel lines!

·         Review graphing with polygons

o   Use the bags of polygons to tally the polygons, then create a tally table and a pictograph for the data.

§  Use one symbol to represent the polygons, not a different one for each shape. 

·         Review partitioning shapes.  Remember that you must equally split a shape using other shapes.  Drawing a line down a trapezoid is not an equal partition.  Using three green triangles to partition a trapezoid or two rhombuses is correct. 

·         Complete the last problems of the study guide.

Science

·         Cut apart, color and staple the mini book for coastal plains.  Read it three times tonight.