Morning Work

The students continue to work hard at completing their word sorts and studying their spelling words.  Below is a copy of some of this work completed by Allie and Maddie.

PHOBIA (fear)	HYDRA HYDRO (water)	PED (foot)	MANI      MANU        (hand)
claustrophobia an abnormal fear of being in enclosed or narrow places.	hydrangea any shrub belonging to the genus.	centipede	manicure a treatment of the hands and fingernails
hydrophobia an abnormal or unnatural dread of water.	hydrant                an upright pipe with a spout, nozzle, or other outlet.	pedal a leverlike part worked by the foot.	manual done, operated, worked, etc.
hypnophobia An abnormal fear of falling asleep.	hydrate any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water.	pedestrian a person who goes or travels on foot.	manufacturer the making of goods or wares by manual
onomatophobia a fear of names or other words because of their meaning.	hydroelectric pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity.	pedometer an instrument worn by a walker or runner for recording the number of steps taken.	manure excrement, especially of animals
zoophobia abnormal fear of animals.	hydroplane a seaplane.	pedometer	manuscript an original text of an author's work,

1. My homework is important for school.
2. I cannot find the correct movie.
3. The mom has 5 children.
4. For the wedding Kate became Bill's wife.
5. You can make a hoe in minecraft.
6. I saw a giraffe at the zoo.
7. I was gentle with the small puppy.
8. I was on stage 4 in the game.
9. The engine on our car doesn’t work very well.
10.  I got my first badge in girl scouts.
11. We had to put ginger in out food.
12. People by the ocean get hurricanes.
13. In the desert it is really hot.
14. I live near a tundra.
15. In math we are working on fraction equations.  
16. People get operations when they are hurt.

Ness state of being	Tion         expressing action	En become	Ible capable of being
foolishness	communication	dampen	collapsible
greatness	demonstration	strengthen	digestible
nervousness	destruction	whiten	expressible
swiftness	infection	widen	forcible
thickness	inspection	quicken	reversible

Maddie

Swiftness =  In Minecraft I got a swiftness potion.

Foolishness =  We are reading NoodleHead stories with foolishness people.

Destruction =  There was destruction near our house.

Communication =  I have an app that I can communicate with my friends.

Allie  

Quicken =  The man will quicken  when he goes on jogs.

Strengthen =  The man will strengthen  if he exercises.

Reversible =   

Digestible =

                                               

Biographies

The students have been working hard at reading different biographies and completing the necessary tasks with them.  During the next two days they will start to work on a small writing assignment to go along with their past readings.   Below is the work completed so far by Allie and Josephe.

Read a book written by someone else about another person’s life.

Autobiography = a book written by someone about their                       own life.

1. Read a biography

2.Write the name of your famous person.  Jackie Robinson.

3.Write down what your person accomplished during his/her life.  Being on a baseball team that was played with only white people.

4.Make a timeline and add at least five events from your person’s life. Wrote timeline on peace of paper.

5.Write down the most important inside trait that you feel your  person has or had.  Use at least two examples from their life that prove they possessed this trait. Brave. Jackie Robinson was brave, because he was the first African American to play in a baseball league. He was brave to go on the baseball team, because people cursed and called him names.

6.Write down two other important facts from your person’s life that you feel are important for people to know about him or her.  Explain why you chose these two facts.He fought for the army.He was bothered in the army because he couldn’t do stuff because of his skin color.He quit college early so he could help his family to get money.

7.Find at least two words from your story that you needed to or need to find the meaning of.  Use context clues and figure out their meanings.  

    

Words	Clues from story	Definition
Honolulu	1. Honolulu bears
arrogant	1. he was

   8. Choose another book and complete the same steps for this new person’s life.

1. Read a biography

2.Write the name of your famous person. Cleopatra

3.Write down what your person accomplished during his/her life.  She accomplished being a famous queen.

4. Make a timeline and add at least five events from your person’s life.

5.Write down the most important inside trait that you feel your  person has or had.  Use at least two examples from their life that prove they possessed this trait.  Never gave up.  Cleopatra never stopped trying to become queen of Egypt.  Cleopatra never stopped trying to get a husband.  

6.Write down two other important facts from your person’s life that you feel are important for people to know about him or her.  Explain why you chose these two facts.  Cleopatra died from a asp snake bite because that was part of her life.She married Antony because Anthony's dad died.

7.Find at least two words from your story that you needed to or need to find the meaning of.  Use context clues and      figure out their meanings.  

words	clues from story	definition
E lections	Had regular elections	the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
rome	1.They could not 2.rule rome together	the ancient Italian kingdom, republic, and empire whose capital was the city of Rome.

                         

1. Read a biography
2. Write the name of your famous person.  Galileo

  3.Write down what your person accomplished during his/her life.  Becoming a famous scientist

   4.Make a timeline and add at least five events from your person’s life.

 5.Write down the most important inside trait that you feel your  person has or had.  Use at least two examples from their life that prove they possessed this trait.  Smart. Smart because he is a scientists.  He improved telescopes.

6. Write down two other important facts from your person’s life that you feel are important for people to know about him or her.  Explain why you chose these two facts.He wore a white robe to say he was sorry for saying the earth orbits the sun.He said that both metal balls will land at the same time but other people said that the bigger one will land first.

7. Find at least two words from your story that you needed to or need to find the meaning of.  Use context clues and figure out their meanings.  

Words	Clues from story	Definition
influential	1.many 2.people

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play on an all white baseball team, so the African Americans could play baseball in the Major Leagues.

Cleopatra died, because she was bit by a snake.

Galileo had to wear a white robe, because he said that the Earth went around the sun.

Math Problems

Here are some math problem the students were asked to solve today.  These problems were completed by Joel.  Joel is continuing to work on the last two problems.

 

Allison and Abby love to make ice treats.  They pour different types of drinks in each part of the ice tray to create delicious frozen treats.  The two girls plan on filling up ¼ (3 cherry gatorade) of this tray with cherry gatorade.  They would like to fill up ⅙ (2 root beer) of the tray with root beer.  ½ (6 cherry kool-aid) of the tray will get filled up with cherry kool-aid.  The rest of the spots they will allow you fill up with your favorite drink.  How many spots do you get?  1 peppermint milk mixed with all kinds of jelly beans and chocolate sprinkles with brownies inside also with eggs.  (It is turned into a liquid.)

   How will you fill these spots?  Explain your thinking.  Pour the liquid into the tray.

You are in charge of setting up the race course for the tortoise and hare.  They would like to have a three mile race course.  This race course should have a flag at the beginning of the race and at the end of it.  Also, they would

like a flag at every ¼ mile of this course.  How many flags will they need to use?  Make a number line to show your work.  I would make a 3 inch line to start with.

Done

Make the following whole numbers into fractions.  5, 25/5 1, 5/5 2 10/5  

Two pizzas were each cut into sixths.  Joey, Danica, and Zack shared the pizzas equally.  How many sixths did each friend get?  4/6

Julian shoveled ¼ of his driveway.  His brother Robbie shoveled 3/12 of the driveway and his dad shoveled 2/8 of it.  Who shoveled the most snow?  Who shoveled the least amount of snow? Explain.  They shoveled the same amount of the driveway.   What fraction of the driveway to they have left to shovel?  1/4

Logan used a pattern of colors to make a cube train.  He used a red cube, a blue cube, a red cube, and another red cube before he started the pattern again.  He used 15 cubes.  How many red cubes did Logan use?  red cubes.  Red, blue, red, red, blue, red, red, blue, red, red, blue, red, red, blue, red

Find your own picture on the internet and create a fraction problem for it.

Logan's page!