Tuesday's Homework

Math: Math practice test.( We have a test tomorrow on chapter 16.) visit ca.gr4math.com for extra help.
Read: Read for 30 minutes, and fill in reading log.
Spelling: Choose activity.
*****Parent teacher conferences begin tomorrow.

Monday's Homework

Math: Homework practice 16-6. Refer to ca.gr4math.com for any help.
Read: Read for 30 minutes. Fill out reading log.
Spelling: Choose Spelling activity.
****Turn in student led conference form in not done so already.

Spelling and Vocabulary Words for 3/26-3/30

1.   dictionary

2.   abrupt

3.   predict

4.   import

5.   locally

6.   verdict

7.   locate

8.   portable

9.   transport
10. bankrupt

11.   dictate

12.   location

13.   erupt

14.   passport

15.   export

16.   contradict

17.   rupture

18.   interrupt

19.   disrupt

20.                     dislocate
Vocabulary Words
1. anticipation- The act of anticipating; looking forward to; expectation.
2. continent: One of the seven great masses of land on Earth. The continents are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.
3. convergence: The act or process of meeting at a point.
4. depart: To go away; leave.  
5. forbidding: Causing fear or dislike; looking dangerous or unpleasant.
6. heaves: rises; rises and falls alternatively.
7. icebergs: Large masses of ice detached from glaciers and floating in the sea. About 90 percent of an iceberg’s mass is below the surface of the water.

Thursday's Homework

Math: homework practice 16-4
Read: read for 30 minutes, and turn in reading log.
Spelling: Choose spelling activity, and turn in all spelling homework for the week.

Wednesday's Homework

Math: Homework practice 16-2
Read: Read for thirty minutes, and fill out reading log.
Spelling: Choose spelling activity.
***Return signed portion of teacher conference schedules.

Homework for Monday

Math: fill out times table chart.
Read: Read for 30 minutes, and fill out reading log.
Spelling: Choose activity.
Extra: Sign and return conference slips. (I will send out duplicate copies this week if needed.)

Wednesday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 15-2
Reading: Read for 30 minutes. Fill out reading log.
Spelling: Choose Activity.

Tuesday's Homework

Math: Complete times table charts.
Read: Read for 30 minutes. Fill in reading log.
Spelling: Choose activity.

Monday's Homework

Math: Complete Practice test worksheet for the test tomorrow.(This worksheet is extremely similar to the test format. Depending how well your child knows how to do this homework is a good predictor how he or she will do on the test.)
Reading: None
Spelling: None
Writing: Finish the writing assigmemt. It is a literary response to the story "Little by Little, Piece by Piece." if students have difficulty with his assignment. They also have an example paper to copy word for word if they say they just can't think what to write about. This should be at least one full page.

***I sent home the spelling tests graded from last Friday. I will have the rest of the weekly tests graded from last Friday graded to send home tomorrow.

Spelling and Vocabulary Words for 3/5-3/9

1.   basic

2.   vacant

3.   secret

4.   honor

5.   local

6.   novel

7.   olive

8.   tiger

9.   spinach
10. second

11.   donate

12.   locust

13.   beware

14.   emotion

15.   cabin

16.   tripod

17.   dragon

18.   habit

19.   tribute

20.                     lizard

Vocabulary Words (Taken from this week's story Lost City: The Disocovery of Machu Picchu.)
1. curiosity: An eager desire to know or learn.
2. glorious: Magnificent; splendid.
3. granite: A very hard, gray or pink rock that is formed when lava cools slowly underground.
4. ruins:  What is left after a building, wall, or other structure has fallen to pieces.
5. terraced: Formed into flat, level land with steep sides. Terraces are often made in hilly areas to create more space for farming.
6. thickets: Bushes or small trees growing close together.
7. torrent: A violent, rushing stream of water.

Weekend optional homework

Most students didn't finish their summaries at the end of class today. They are to bring them home, finish them, and have you sign it.
Summaries focus on have a main idea in each paragraph supported by details.

Their writing focused on the difference of frogs and toads.

I also sent home 2 graded spelling tests from the last two weeks, and Monday I will be sending home a couple of their latest language arts tests scored.

Have a great weekend,

Mr. Robert Higgins