Thursday, January 21, 2021

Continue working on your January RQ.

Work on XTRA Math Daily.

4th Grade:

 IXL Skills for the week (due Monday, January 25th): Math D.34, D.41, E.1, E.2, E.5 and ELA N.2, T.1, U.5, KK.12, and KK.13.

Daily Language Review (DLR): Week 16, Thursday (Cause/Effect, Correcting Sentences, Analogies). 

 

Handwriting: Lesson 17, Day 4 (John 3:16)

Vocabulary (Sadlier): Complete Unit 6 TEST in Sadlier. 

Reading: Read "The Dove and the Ant", pages 428-430. On paper, answer the following questions:

1. At the beginning of the story, how would you describe the Ant's character? The Dove's character?

2. What does the Dove mean when he says, "There can never be excess kindness in this world"? How does this relate to the theme?

3. Many traditional tales include patterns of repeated events and similar themes. What events repeat in this fable? What other stories do you know with a similar theme and pattern of events?

4. Reread the moral at the bottom of page 430. Which events in the fable show that the moral is part of the theme?

Reader's Notebook pages 171 (Suffixes -able and -ible)  and 174 (Spelling - Proofreading).

Grammar: Reader's Notebook page 178 (Frequently Confused Words). 

Math: Chapter 6 Review, pages 122-123 (1-28 ALL). We will check this together on Friday during our afternoon Meet.

Religion: What does it mean to call the Church the People of God?, pages 104-105. Complete the activity on page 105.

Science: How do meteorologists predict and track the weather? Pages 196-197.

5th Grade:

Math: Chapter 4 Review, page 93 (ALL), if you haven't completed it already. We will review/test on Friday.

Social Studies: Review pages 72-75. Write About It - "Do you think the enslaved Africans were right in starting a rebellion?" (Write a paragraph stating your opinion, Be sure to support your opinion.) 

Religion: Discover qualities that help us live a holy life, pages 230-231.

Vocabulary: Introduction to Unit 12 words, page 118-121.

Reading: Read "Purr-fection", pages 310-312. On paper, answer the following questions:

1. Reread the last two stanzas of "Tiger." What theme or message about wildness is conveyed by the details in these lines?

2. Who is the narrator of this poem? How does this point of view affect how the tomcat is described?

3. How do the stanzas in this poem fit together to form the overall structure of the poem? For example, do the stanzas describe how the tomcat faces a conflict and finally resolves it at the end?

4. How does the image on page 312 help you understand the poem?

Reader's Notebook pages 111 (Shades of Meaning) and 114 (Spelling - Proofreading).

Grammar: Reader's Notebook page 118 (Verb Tenses - time, sequence, condition, state).