Dr. Wanda Reynolds
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WEEK OF MARCH 18 - 22
Spelling: Unit #27
History: Chapter 15 Test - Wednesday; Chapter 16
Science : Inherited and Learned Behaviors
Reading: Mysteries and Maniac Magee (Chap 10 -21)
Grammar: Lesson 49 - 53
Math: Measurement Conversion with Customary, Metrics, and Time
Homework : Mon/Tues: Math Textbook page 171 (# 6 & 7 ALL)
Worksheet - Elapsed Time
Workshet - Customary Conversion (pounds & ounces)
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 1, 2024
Spelling: Unit # 25
Homework (M-Th): Complete Word Study, Connect to Writing, Vocabulary, Reading in the Content
History: Unit 14 - The War of 1812
Research Project - Continue working on requirements each night. First drafts returned on Tuesday and a review of bibliographies on Tuesday or Wednesday. Bibliography due Friday handwritten or typed. In class work on slides Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and the following Monday. Students can also work on their slides at home.
Chapter 14 test - Friday, March 1, 2024
Science: Ecosystems - Test Friday, March 1, 2024
Grammar - Lessons 42-44
Reading: Biographies
All research work is due next week. See dates for specifics.
Week of February 12 - 19, 2024
Parents your child may bring Valentine cards and candy to share with their classmates. Each student has decorated a paper lunch bags to drop them in.I am providing cupcakes and juice for the class.
We will begin our History research project today (2/12/24), and it will end March 7th. Your child will have all the requirements and a scoring rubric for this project. Ask your child about this. The project will be comprised of 5 grades counting for both History & ELAR. Students will need to visit the public library to check out 2 books of a famous American they chose to research. Students will also need a tri-fold display board.
Please see the requirements page for this project on Tuesday, which your child will bring home. Presentation days will be March 5 - 7, 2024. Late turn-ins on any requirements will be a -15 points each school day.
Spelling: Unit 22
Reading: Biographies and the novel, "Maniac Magee."
Math: Perimeter, Area, Volume
History: Chapter 13 and Test Friday, February 16, 2024
Science: Natural Resources Test is Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Next Unit of Study: Ecosystems
Week of February 5 - 9, 2024
No school Wednesday, February 7, 2024: Parent Conferences--Not Mandatory, but sign up if you would like to meet.
Students are still needing glue, scissors, & colored pencils
Spelling: Unit #21
Grammar: Lessons 40 - 43
Reading: Finish Presentations and start on new novel; Biographies
Math: Finish 2D shapes and attributes, angles, & triangles; Next week Perimeter and Area
Science: Natural Resources (Renewable & Non-Renewable) & Pollution
History: Test Chapter 12 on Friday, February 9, 2024 (students already have key terms)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2024
Week of January 29 - February 2, 2024
Catholic Schools Week
Parents please provide this week for your student a book report cover, and a protractor for the regular math group. Also please check with your student to see if they have glue, scissors, and colored pencils. --Thank you
Spelling Unit #20
Spelling Homework: Vocabulary Connect, Word Study, Word Connect, and Reading connect
Reading - A Paradise Called Texas, in class book project
Science: Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Layers of the Earth, Rock Cycle, and Volcanes and Earthquakes ---Test Wednesday (study vocabulary and notes in your Science notebook)
Begin Unit on Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources on Friday, February 2nd
History - Chapter 11 Test Monday, Jan. 29th (Students received key terms last week and was to study over the weekend).
Begin Chapter 12 ---"The Federalist Era----Test Friday, February 2, 2024
Grammar: Lessons 37 - 41
Math: Angles, Triangles, 2D shapes and their attributes
Math Test Friday, Feb 2nd
Math Homework:
Mon. - Textbook pages 99 - 101
Tues. - Textbook pages 104 - 105
Wed. - Textbook pages 113 - 115
Thurs - Textbook page 122 - 123
Week of January 22 - 26, 2024
Spelling Unit #19 NOT #18
Homework
Mon.---Write each word 3 times each and a sentence with each word
Tues.---Word Study
Wed.----Writing Connect
Thurs---Vocabulary Connect
Grammar: Lessons 36 - 40
Reading: Informational/Persuasive Text
A Paradise Called Texas ( Chapter 17 - 20) AR Test - Friday 1/26 & Monday 1/29
History--Chapter 11 - Founding the Republic
Key Terms: Executive Brand, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Confederacy, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Daniel Shay, James Bowdoin, Articles of Conferderation
Test Friday, Jan.26th
Science: Weathering and Erosion, Layers of the Earth, & Rock Cycle Unit--Test Friday, Jan. 26
Math - Geometry - Classifying Triangles and Shapes Attributes - Lessons 3-6, .
Homework:
Mon. - 1/22- Lesson 3, p, 96 (Textbook)
Tue. - 1/23- Division of Fraction, page
Wed. - 1/24- Lesson 6, p.109 - 110 (Textbook)
Thu. - 1/25- Study for quiz
Math Vocabulary Quiz - Friday, Jan. 26th.
Week of January 16 - 19, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024 - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Spelling Unit 17
chorus, create, suitcase, cereal, recent, practice, company, expect, jacket, frantic, choir, grocery, recite, celebrate, exercise, correct, comic, select, plastic, stomach
Bonus: Challenge Words
Grammar/Writing: Grammar Usage Lessons 31 - 34/Revising and Editing Passages
Reading: A Paradise Called Texas - Chapters 15-20
Informational Text
Science: Weathering and Erosion, Layers of the Earth, & Rock Cycle Unit
Homework:
Define Vocabulary words - Wednesday, Jan.17th
Due Friday, Jan.19th - Draw, label, color the layers of the earth. Define/describe each layer next to the label and identify inner and outer layers as well. Each layer should be a different color, and you may use construction paper or markers to show the layers. Use posterboard to affix the model to.
Science Vocabulary test - Friday, January 19, 2024.
Math: Geometry
Homework:
Tues. pp 136 - 137 (Math Textbook)
Wed. . pp. 149-150 (Math Textbook)
Thur. 153 - 154 (Math Textbook)
Vocabulary: perimeter, area, volume, equilateral triangle, congruent, closed figures, open figures, quadilateral ,hexagon, isosceles triangle, octagon, parallelogrm, pentagon, polygon, rectangle, rhombus, scalene triangle, right angle, acute angle, square, trapezoid, triangle, polygon, quadrilateral
History: Chapter 10 Test & start Chapter 11 (Founding the Republic)
Chapter 10 Test--Friday, January 19, 2024.
Week of Jan. 4-5, 2024
No Spelling this week!
Reading: A Paradise Called Texas - Chapters 6-8
Tracking Our hinking using persuasive informational text
Grammar/Writing: Grammage Usage Lesson 25 - 26/Revising & Editing Passage
Math: Multiplication & Division of Fractions
Science: Weathering and Erosion, Layers of the Earth, & Rock Cycle Unit
Vocabulary: weathering, deposition, erosion, delta, sand dune,, sediments, wind, landform, canyon,
History: Chapter 10 (The American War of Independence)
**Remember to check your student's planner daily for daily assignments, test announcements, notes home, and homework. The students are responsible for putting information in their planner. They are given time each day to get information in it.
Week of January 8 - 12, 2024
Spelling: Unit 16
clearer, slimmest, removed, denying, curing, erasing, grayest, trimming, denied, interesting, glancing, trimmed, wisest, removing, grayer, clearest, supplied, slimmer, interested, supplying
Bonus : Challenge Words
Reading: A Paradise Called Texas - Chapter 9 - 15 (summarize each chapter)
Tracking OurThinking using persuasive informational text
Grammar/Writing: Grammar Usage Lessons 27 - 30/Revising and Editing Passages
Math: Division of Fractions & Introduction to Geometry Unit (classifying 2 dimensional figures, perimeter & area, identify shape attributes, volume and unit cube, and volume formulas)
History: Chapter 10 (The American War of Independence
Science: Weathering and Erosion, Layers of the Earth, & Rock Cycle Unit
Vocabulary: compaction, cementation, sedimentation, magma, lava, eruption, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, earthquake, crust, mantle, outer core, inner core , rock cycle, fault, seismograph, Richter Scale
*Remember to check your student's planner daily for daily assignments, test announcements, notes home, and homework. The students are responsible for putting information in their planner. They are given time each day to get information in it.
WEEk of November 27 - December 1, 2023
Spelling Unit #15
Homework: Word Connect, Writing Connect, Word Study, Reading Connect
Parents you may want to have your student write each word 5 times each and give them a quiz on Wednesday or Thursday. This may help to bring the spelling grade up some.
Reading: Organizational Patterns (Promblem & Solution, Compare & Contras,t, Cause & Effect, Description, and Chronlongical Order), Continue with Information Texts
Read Aloud: A Paradise Called Texas
Language: Modal Auxiliaries,Ordering Adjectives,Coordinating & Subordinating Conjuctions, & Correlative Conjunctions
Semester final for Grammar is December 11, 2023
Math: Review changing improper fraction to a mixed number, mixed number to an improper fraction, adding and subtracting mixed numbers, simplifying fraction.
Introduce Multipling Fractions
Math Homework:
Mon. changing improper fraction to a mixed number, mixed number to an improper fraction
multifying fractions
Tues. simplifying fraction
Wed. Introduce dividing fractions, simplifying fraction
Thur adding and subtracting mixed numbers, simplifying fraction
multiplying fractions and simplifying
Science: Finish Weather and Climate, Begin Phases of the Moon, Earth and Sun
Vocabulary: lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, ellipse, solar flares, solar spots, orbit, axis, rotation, revolve, tide
Semester Final, December 12, 2023 (Science Vocabulary)
History: Chapter 8 - The French and Indian War
What is the Significance of Fort Necessity, James Wolfe, Ohio River, Britain, Fort Duquesne, Marquis de Montcalm, Colonel Monro, Edward Braddock, Seven Years War, and the Treaty of Paris .
Week of November 13 - 17, 2023
No Spelling test this week!
We will begin with Unit 15 when we return from the Thanksgiving break.
We're finishing off skills we have been working on for the past 2 weeks on IXL for Science, Language, & Social Studies.
Movie & Read-in Day is Thursday, November 16, 2023. The students can bring a throw and their favorite book to read.
Have a wonderful, safe, and loved filled Thanksgiving with your families!
Week of Nov. 6-10
Spelling Unit 14: moisture, voyage, employ, ounce, mountain, coward, allow, oyster, poise, pronpounce, avoid, decoy, couch, tower, sour, destroy, bound, appoint, allowance, annoy:
Homework for the week (due Friday): Connect to Reading, Connect to Writing, Extend Word Study, Connect to Vocabulary, Apply to Content Areas
History: Chapter 7
Test Friday, Nov. 10th
Language: Adjectives, Adverbs, And Modal Auxiliary
Science: Weather & Climate
Science Vocabulary: forecast, climate, weather, condensation, evaporation, precipation, water cycle, water vapor, meteorology, stratus clouds, culumus clouds, transpiration, runoff, aqyuifer, groundwater, saturation, fog, hail, smog, fog, humidity
Reading: Informational Text, charateristics of information text, and the four types of information text
Homework Monday: Finish "Where the Red Fern Grows" booklet.
Math: Fractions (Adding/Subtraction of mixed fractions, simplifying fractions, & word problems with fractions
Homework Monday: Adding/Subtracting Mixed Fractions
Math vocabulary: simp;ify, improper fraction, mixed fractions, numerator, denominator, factors, least common multiples, greatest common factors, share
Week of October 23-27, 2023
Spelling: pharmacy, aware, starve, pardon, margarine, barge, scarce, solitaire, argue, harmonica, vary, aquarium, flair, wary, temporary, regard, scarcely, paragraph, despair, garbage
Reading: Informational Text
Test : Where the Red Fern Grows - Tuesday, October 24, 2023
History: Chapter 6 - The Pilgrims Comes To Plymouth
Art: Turkeys and "I am thankful for..."
Science: Vocabulary test - Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Energy Unit Test - Friday, October 27, 2023
Language:
Mon. - Personal and Possessive Pronouns
Tues. - Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
Wed. Modal Auxiliaries (may, might, can, could, should, must)
Homework - Singular or Plural Possessive W/S
Thur: Adjectives
Fri. : Adverbs
Math: Adding and Subtracting Fraction with like and unlike denominators ; Mixed Fractions; Simpliest Forms
Mon. Homework - Textbook page 84 (#5 - A-H)
Tues. Homework - Textbook page 87(#5 - A-H)
Wed. Homework - Textbook page 93 (#5 - A- H)
Thurs. Homework - Workbook page 97 (#4 - A-H)
Week of Oct 16 - 20
**Parents, please supply your student with a pair of earbuds to use with the ipads. WIRED PLEASE....Thank you!
Spelling: rehearse, perfume, murmur, swerve, external, circulate, hurdles, stirrups, furnish, internal, alert, birthmark, girth, worrisome, burnt, survey, operation, effort, squirrel, conserve, dirty
Homework - (Mon. - Thurs); Word Study, Connect to Vocabulary, Connect to Readibg, Connect to Writing
Math - Finish Prime & Composite Number
Homework : Monday Prime Factoring Worksheet
Tuesday, More Prime & Composite Worksheet
Quiz Wednesday or Thursday
Introduce Fractions and Addition of Fractions
Science - Forms of Energy (Thermal, Mechanical, Light, Sound, Heat) - Note-taking
Monday - Mechanical
Tuesday - Thermal/Heat
Wednesday - Sound
Thursday - Electrical
Homework - Draw a picture of an "Open Circuit" and a "Closed Circuit"
Friday - Light
**Test Friday, October 27, 2023
Reading: Use Literary Elements and Summarize final chapter of Where the Red Fern Grows
Homework: Beauty Contest for Old Dan or Little Ann - Due Friday, October 20, 2023
Vocabulary Quiz - Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Homework: Tuesday, 10/17/23, Ask & Answer Questions Worksheet
Final Exam on Where the Red Fern Grows - Friday, October 20, 2023
Grammar: Personal & Possessive Pronouns, Action and Linking Verbs, Main Verbs & Helping Verbs
History: Chapter 5 Test - Friday, October 20, 2023
Begin Chapter 6 (The Pilgrims Come to Plymouth)
WEEK OF Oct 10 - 13
Thank you parents for an amazing day yesterday for parent conferences. I really enjoyed meeting each and every one.
Tomorrow after the award ceremony and the NED program, you will be allowed to sign you child out early if you would like. Enjoy your weekend.
WEEK OF OCTOBER 2-6, 2023
SPELLING: Unit 9
citizen, profession, companion, governor, solution, mention, common, senator, mission, section, million, oven, differ, bother, mayor, copper, dozen, motor, onion, remember
Homework for the week - Connect to Vocabulary, Connect to Reading, Connect to Writing, and Extend Word Study. Homework due Friday, October 6, 2023
Pre-test Wednesday
HISTORY
Unit 4 Test Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Chapter Test Thursday, October 5, 2023
SCIENCE: Force & Motion Test Tuesday, October 3, 2023 (Study Vocabulary and Notes)Science Journal due, Thursday, October 5, 2023
Introduction to Energy Unit
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns, Plural and Possessive Nouns, Concrete/Abstract/Collective Nouns, Personal and possessive Pronouns
Homework: Monday
Select 3 pictures representative of a common noun and 3 representative of a proper noun.
Writing: Narrative Essay
Continue with revising and editing
Reading: Where the Red Fern Grows (Chapters 11-20)
Continue with Storyor Literary Elements and Figurative Language
Math: Estimation, Word Problems, and Prime & Composite Numbers
Quiz over math clue words for word problems Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Work with your student on basic multiplication facts through twelve
Homework
Mon. page 51 (# 2- 3)
Tue - page 55 (# 2-4)
Wed - Prime and Composite Worksheet (Factorization)
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 18 – 22, 2023
ELA & Reading
Spelling: Unit 7 (metal, hospitality, definition, provision, preside, crime, genetics, period, explore, hospital, periodic, gene, exploration, criminal, legality, president, define, metallic, provide, legal
Homework for the week Connect to Vocabulary, Connect to Reading, Connect to Writing, and Word Study
Writing: Personal Narratives
Revise and Editing
Grammar: Unit 2 (Common Nouns, Proper Nouns, Plural, Possessive, and Irregular Nouns)
Vocabulary: Lesson 6 & 7 (tele and astr) & (in- and semi-)
Reading:
Poetry/Drama
Figurative Language
Story Elements
Where the Red Fern Grows Chapters 6 – 9
Science: Force and Motion
History: Chapter 3 (The Arrival of the French
Week of September 11 – 15
English/Language Arts
Spelling: magic, credit, exist, deposit, staff, direct, splendid, business, sense, discuss, contest, building, swift, interest, exact, promise, habit, thus, active, solve, (BONUS - buoyancy)
Unit 5 – Pretest (Tuesday)
Homework
Mon – p. 27
Tue – p. 28
Wed – p. 29 – 30
Thu – Study for Friday test
Writing
Continue with Revise and Editing
Introduce Narrative Writing
Grammar
Lesson 7 (Prepositional Phrases), Lesson 8 (Simple and Compound Sentences), and Lesson 9 (Dependent and Independent Clauses)
Unit 1 Post Test - Friday
Reading –
Finish with Fiction (Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, Tall Tales, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction)
Introduce Story Elements
Where the Red Fern Grows – Chapters 4-6
Quiz – Chapter 1- 3
Homework
Tue – Compare and Contrast Fiction Stories
Vocabulary – Chapter 4-6 (Mon & Tue)
Math
Finish Multiplication & Division with & without Decimals, Rounding, Comparing & Ordering Decimals
Word Problems
Test Wednesday
History
Chapter 2 (Our Spanish Heritage) - Test Wednesday
Chapter 3 (The Arrival of the French)
Science
Finish Matter, Physical and Chemical Properties
Vocabulary: chemical change, element, solid, liquid, gas, chemical property, density, matter, mixture, physical change, physical property, state of matter, volume, buoyancy, solution, soluble, solvent, solute
Test Friday