Happy New Year!
*Parents! Check out the website www.bookadventure.com. Your child can create an account and take practice quizzes to review a book before taking an AR test.
This week's objectives:
To calculate the area of a figure (rectangle, square, parallelogram, triangle).
To comapre and contrast characters.
To tell if a word has a positive or negative connotation.
To describe objects in the solar system.
To use linking verbs correctly.
To identify explorers that came to North America.
Spelling Words-
dozen active govern beside restore scorching motion expert flurry appoint reserve canvas season embrace copper phony coastal cocoon observe python
Vocabulary Words- from My Great-Grandmother's Gourd
1. scorching- extremely hot and dry
2. gushed- flooded out with sudden force
3. landscape- a scene or view
4. parched- very dry or thirsty
5. brimming- filled to the top and almost overflowing
6. scrawny- very thin or skinny
7. gnarled- twisted
8. progress- improvement or forward movement
Homework
Spelling- spelling soup (15 pts. for the week)
Math- computation homework (5 problems each night) and problem solving packet (1 problem a night)
Math facts- study, study, study!
Reading fluency- time yourself every night and write down the words read in 1 minutes; answer all the questions by Friday
AR Read- at least 15 minutes each night
Science- study vocabulary words every night
