Thursday, January 28, 2021

Continue working on your January RQ. This is the last week to receive credit.

Work on XTRA Math daily. 

 If you would like to participate in the Catholic Schools Week goodie bags for the BPD and BFD, please bring your donation to school by Friday, January 29th. The items needed are as follows: Individually wrapped or bagged beef jerky, mints and/or gum, snack sized bags of chips and/or cookies, small bottles of water, and large brown lunch bags. Any and all donations made will be given to Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Metaxas for your home room. Thank you in advance for your participation and generosity. :0)

4th Grade: 

IXL Skills for the week (due Monday, February 1st): SKILL PLAN - ELA Lesson 15 1 (Main Idea), 3 (Poetry), 4 (Guide Words), 5 (Dictionary Definitions), 6 (Context Clues), 7 and 8 (Irregular Past Tense Verbs). MATH Lesson 7-2:1 (Properties of Division) and 7-3:1 and 2 (Estimating Quotients). 

Daily Language Review (DLR): Week 17, Thursday (types of sentences, past tense verbs, correcting sentences). 

Handwriting: Lesson 18, Day 4 (Mark12:29,30)

Reading: Read "Wonderful Weather", pages 456-458. On paper, answer the following questions:

1. In “Fog”, what is the main metaphor? To what does the poet compare fog? Use context to figure out what the word “haunches” on Line 5 means.

2. Describe the syllable pattern of “Spring Rain”. What does the haiku help you picture?

3. In “Weatherbee’s Diner,” what does the poet compare the weather to?

4. How would the description of “Weatherbee’s Diner” be different prose? What would the author have had to do to write a play about the diner?

Reader's Notebook pages 183 (using context) and 186 (Spelling - Proofreading).

Grammar: Reader's Notebook page 190 (Progressive verb tenses - past/present/future). 

Math: Check Your Progress, pages 134-135 (1-55 ODD) 

Religion: Unit 2 Review, page 115. Complete Chapter 8 TEST (BeMyDisciples) Email your test results when finished. Use your book.

Social Studies: Readworks (Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction: Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address). I will email you a copy in the morning for annotating purposes. Treat it like a close read, like we did with “Weather - The Water Cycle” today. Look back in the text to find your answers, and highlight your answers. When finished, log in to Readworks and put in your answers. :0) 

5th Grade:

IXL Skills: Skill Plan ELA: 11:1. (similes/metaphors), 5 (personal pronouns), 6 (subject/object pronouns), 7 (replacing nouns with pronouns). Skill Plan MATH 5-1: 1 (prime/composite numbers), 2 (prime factorization), 3 (prime factorization with exponents), 5-2: 1 (greatest common factor) and 2 (greatest common factor of 3 numbers). Due Monday, February 1st. 

Math: List common factors and find the Greatest Common Factor of two or more numbers, continued. Workbook pages 75-76. 

Social Studies: IXL Math V.2 (Using line graphs.)

Religion: Chapter 17 Test (BeMyDisciples) Email your results.

Vocabulary (Sadlier): Unit 12 TEST.

Reading: Read "Revolution and Rights", pages 344-348. On paper, answer the following questions:

1. Why did Great Britain feel that it was fair to help pay for the war by taxing American colonists?

2. What did the colonists mean when they said, “No taxation without representation”?

3. How was the First Continental Congress the first step in breaking away from Great Britain?

4. How did Anti-Federalists’ concerns about individual rights lead to changes to the Constitution?

5. What kinds of rights are protected by the first ten amendments to the Constitution? What are these amendments called?

6. Why do you think a National vote is needed to add amendments to the Constitution?

Reader's Notebook pages 159 (Using Reference Sources) and 162 (Spelling - Proofreading).

Grammar: Reader's Notebook page 166 (Correlative Conjunctions).