Weekly Homework April 30-May 3

Thanks to everyone for a great EARTH WEEK at Pine Ridge! Students do not have school this Friday, May 4. Enjoy your short week!

Again, please remember that all money ($22) and permission slips for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science classes are due no later than Wednesday, May 18.

Be sure to budget your time accordingly and make time for your priorities. Do not procrastinate! Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great week! J

Vocabulary:  We will not have vocabulary words or a test this week. The vocabulary packet is due on Thursday.

Word Work/Spelling: This week we will focus on learning homophones, contractions, and Latin roots in Unit 22. Please read the Family Letter and complete the Take-Home Task together to familiarize yourself with the concepts. Be sure to look for these words in your reading and writing this week.

·         Family Letter is due Tuesday

·         Spelling activities (in class assignments) due in literacy notebook on Thursday morning

·         Spelling Test on Thursday

Reading:  There will be a culminating novel project that will be due on Thursday, May 3. The rubric needs to be turned in with the mobile project for full credit. Ten points will be deducted for each school day the project is late.  Class time will be given to work on this project. Whatever is not completed in class needs to be finished at home.

·         Read the April 20 issue of Weekly Reader News. Complete the questions on the back.  This is due Thursday.

Social Studies: Complete the weekly geography worksheet, questions 116-120. Use the provided maps and other resources such as an atlas, globe, or internet websites. Be sure to answer ALL parts of each question!

·         There will be a geography quiz on Thursday.

We will continue Unit 10 in our History Alive text to learn about events that caused tensions between Great Britain and the colonies leading up to the Revolutionary War. We will have some fun activities in class to make this era come alive for us! We will create a comic strip to illustrate one of these historical events.

·         The comic strip will be due Wednesday.

·         The Unit 10 Test will be this week.   

Science: We will continue Investigation 3 in the Water Planet Unit. The experiments will center on exploring heat convection.

Math (Ms. Reese’s class only): We will wrap up Unit 7 this week. The test will be on Thursday. Friday Fun Math Morning is cancelled this week because of no school that day. See you next week!