LIT & HISTORY for May 6-10

Happy Weekend, Students!

This week, we will continue to read Johnny Tremain,  and work our layered book about the Causes leading up to the Revolutionary War.  Muffins for Moms is Friday, so be sure and let your moms know to come that morning and eat breakfast and be with you at school!  We'll be working on our surprises for our moms on Tuesday this week.

I will be giving you your Progress Reports on Monday, and you need to get those signed and back to me by Wednesday.  You will also hear about Teach the Teacher week, which is our last week of school.  I have included a link to the handout below if you want a sneak peek!

You will have two spelling tests this week--one on Monday, and the other on Friday.  From now on, spelling tests will be on Friday--May 17 and May 24.  You will get a study guide this week for the History test over Causes of the Revolution, which is also available below.  The test will be a week from this Wednesday, May 15.  There is an earlier blog post from last weekend that includes ALL of the causes with pictures, so that you can work on this at home if you would like to get ahead (or caught up!)

If you need any of the charts for Johnny Tremain, you can find them on the blog post for the Week of LIT & HISTORY April 29-May 3.

The handouts and this week's Friday spelling words are below.  Have a good Sunday!

Assignment chart for this week
Progress Report signature page (also will be given as a hard copy in class)
Study Guide for Causes of the Revolution Test
Teach the Teacher handout
Diagramming Review and Sentences
Diagramming Commands and Questions
Diagramming Prepositional Phrases

Spelling List for Test on Monday, May 6

1.  wharf = a pier or boat dock

2.  autocratic = like a dictator

3.  politely = with manners                                                                                   

4.  apprentice = one who is learning a trade or skill from a master craftsman

5.  venerable  = worthy of respect

6.  haughty  =  someone who is full of pride and looks down on others

7.  consequence = as "a person of consequence"--someone notable

8.  lamentable  =  grievous, mournful

9.  belligerent =  war-like, argumentative and quarrelsome

10.  maimed =  a deformity caused by an injury

Spelling List for Test on Friday, May 10

1.  belligerent   =  likely to argue or fight

2.  chagrin  =  to distress by disappointment or humiliation

3.  enigmatic  =  puzzling

4.  exuberant  =  enthusiastic

5.  fatuous  =  foolish or silly

6.  flaccid  =  without energy; limp

7.  nonchalantly  =  in a way that shows casual indifference

8.  unobtrusively  =  without being noticed

9.  venerable =  worthy of respect or awe

10.  intricate  =  complicated

May 6-10

May 6-10
Lesson 10 8 Tranformations
Lesson 110 Symmetry
Lesson 112  Multiplying and Dividing Integers
Lesson 115  Writing Percents as Fractions
Lesson 12 Volume of a Cylinder
Journal Check - May 10

May 13-17
Next week End of Year Review and Test over Saxon
We will review for two days and test on Wednesday, May 15.
Tin Man Project
Divide in groups
Go over rules
Begin Planning on Paper (Drawing)
Journal Check May 17

May 20-24

Design and Build Tin Man
Complete all Journal Activities

May 28 Last Day of Math

Report about Tin Man

Include Drawing
Report - Measurements

Bible: April 29-May 3

Memory Verse:

 

And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”  And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

 

Matthew 21:9-11

Monday: Triumphal Entry, we took notes in class on this lesson and had discussion about the many elements of this event. You can find your notes on the link below:

Click Here: Triumphal Entry notes


Friday: Recite your memory verse for the teacher, then we will continue our discussion of Jesus entry into Jerusalem leading us into the study of the last week of Jesus life before the resurrection.

Click here for Friday's Notes

Math April 29 - May 3

Next Journal Due Date is May 10

These items will be checked
Rounding
Supplementary and Complementary Angles
Steps for =, -, x, / Decimals
Transformations
Dividing Fractions
Points, Lines, Rays, and Segments
Measuring Capacity
Decimal, Fraction, Percent

Bring tin cans - We will be starting our final project next week.  We need soup, tomato sauce, sardine, tuna, etc. cans.  Five cans = one ring pop.


Fifth Grade
Tuesday - Lesson 98 Sum of the Angles
                Lesson 99 Fraction, Decimal, Percent
                Lesson 100 Addition of Integers

Thursday  Lesson 103  Perimeter of Complex Shapes
                Lesson 106  Two Step Equations
                Lesson 107  Area of Complex Shapes

Fourth Grade
Wednesday - Lesson 97 Ratios
                      Lesson 99 Adding and Subtracting Decimal Numbers
                      Lesson 100 Simplifying Decimal Numbers

Friday - Lesson 103 - Volume
             Lesson 104 - Rounding Decimals to Nearest Whole

Math Websites -
Perimeter and Area
Ratio Race
Factor Feeder
Meteor Multiplication
Multiples Blaster
Wonderputt Angles
Dress Up Math
Speedboat Negative Numbers
Volume Shapes Shoot

LIT & HISTORY Week of April 26-May 3, 2013

Hello, Students!

This is the week some of you have been waiting for!  This week, we begin the study of the Revolutionary War by analyzing the things the British did that made the colonists want to overthrow that government and become INDEPENDENT!  And to help us picture these events, we get to read a great novel of American historical fiction, Johnny Tremain!

I will be giving you a reading guide so that you can keep up with your reading assignments (1 LONG chapter each night), your reading charts, and your book report research.

You will also be creating a layered timeline  book about the Causes of the Revolutionary War.  These next three weeks will be FAST and FURIOUS, but FUN:  F to the 3rd Power!  

Your assignment chart for this week, and your handouts are below if you find you need to access them here on the blog.  Your spelling/vocabulary words are listed below.  Your test will be Monday, May 6.

This week on Friday, we will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, so wear something festive!

See you on Monday!

Assignment chart for week
Johnny Tremain introduction
Characters from Johnny Tremain
Johnny's Head graphic chart (scroll to page 6)
ABCs Chart for Johnny Tremain
Historical Events chart, Chapters 1-5
Historical Events chart, Chapters 6-10
Study Guide for Chapters 1-6
Maps of Boston, Then and Now
Reading Log for next 2 weeks

Causes of the Revolutionary War layered book
French and Indian War primary sources for layered book

SPELLING WORDS for Test on Monday, May 6:  (you must be able to match the word to its definition)

1.  wharf = a pier or boat dock

2.  autocratic = like a dictator

3.  politely = with manners                                                                                   

4.  apprentice = one who is learning a trade or skill from a master

                          craftsman

5.  venerable  = worthy of respect

6.  haughty  =  someone who is full of pride and looks down on

                         others

7.  consequence = as "a person of consequence"--someone notable

8.  lamentable  =  grievous, mournful

9.  belligerent =  war-like, argumentative and quarrelsome

10.  maimed =  a deformity caused by an injury

CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR Research Sites

CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

You will only have 15 minutes at the computer, so you must work quickly.

Only the 1^st person at the computer needs to do this. Download the article that comes up when you click on the Cause you are looking up. When the article has been downloaded, click on it to bring it up. Then, “Save As” to the Desktop.  Then, open the article and follow the directions below.

1st, read the article for the Cause you are researching.

                2nd, take notes in order to answer the questions for your layered book.

3rd, choose the picture you want to copy by right clicking, copying, and pasting it into a Word Document  or thumb drive. 

Label your file: (Your Name) Causes Pics

Be sure that you write a caption for it as soon as you save it so you don't forget what the picture is!

THE SUGAR ACT

THE STAMP ACT

THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS

THE QUARTERING ACT

THE TOWNSHEND ACTS

THE BOSTON MASSACRE

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

THE INTOLERABLE ACTS

THE 1ST AND 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES

THE SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD

Bible: April 22-26

Memory Verse:

He sat down, called the twelve and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and a servant of all." Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

Mark 9:35-37

Last week we discussed and quizzed ourselves over the information we could gather from scripture about Jesus Transfiguration. This week, we open with the scene of Jesus and his 3 disciples, Peter, James, and John coming down from that mountain and finding the other disciples in an argument.

Monday: Healing the boy with a spirit

Below is a link to the notes we took on the board today in class.

Jesus heals the boy NOTES

Friday: Triumphal Entry