Weekly Homework: 
November 2-6, 2009
The assignments here will be updated daily and will be changed at the end of the week.

Please make sure your child has a water bottle in class at all times.  Thanks!

A great website for making any kind of flashcards!

(click here to be directed to the site)

 Helpful Curriculum Websites

· Language Artswww.harcourtschool.com (Password: Farr) - games, activities to go along with the weekly story, review grammar skills, ideas for writing, and vocabulary development


·  Science  www.hspscience.com (select GA, then “go”, then a grade level) - activities to enhance our current unit of study   

Textbook is online!  Steps to get there:
1.) go to www.thinkcentral.com
2.) select "Science & Health" on the left column
3.) select "HSP Science"
4.) State - GA, District - Fulton Co. School District, School - CVES
5.) username - your first and last name - no spaces, all lowercase 
      letters 
6.) password - 1100 then your lunch number

· Social Studieswww.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/ga - contains activities, games, vocabulary review of our Social Studies curriculum - it goes along with our textbook

Textbook is online!  Steps to get there:
1.) go to www.eduplace.com/eservices
2.) username - grade4earlyyears
3.) password - 123456


Math
- www.pearsonsuccessnet.org - use your given "username" (first and last name, all lowercase and no spaces) and password (0011 and then your lunch number).  It contains your textbook (yes!), games, activities, and assignments from your math teacher on your current unit of study. 

study_guide_chapters_1_and_2_map_skills_native_americans.doc
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Monday - Nov. 2

We begin week 13 of school...

Math
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Today we went over how to add fractions with unlike denominators.  CW is to complete p. 37-41 in the Investigations Practice Book.
HW: p. 463 #1-16
Science - Today we reviewed evaporation and then looked at condensation - water vapor in the air changing from a gas into a liquid.
HW: answer #1-10 ques. on Condensation Connected Learning.
A comic strip assignment was given out today, but will primarily be done in class.  It's due Friday by the end of the day.
The study guide for the unit is shown below.

Language Arts - Jr. Great Books - p. 10-11 - writing a key question/responding to a quote from the story, know the difference between the homophone spelling words #2-7, 11-14, 17-20.
 
All students - write your 5 questions for your report tonight (what will you want to answer as you research your weather topic?).
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 Tuesday - Oct. 6

 

Math - Today we reviewed dividing decimals relating to money. 
HW: Lesson 4-10 p. 233 Practice # 6-18
Quiz tomorrow on lesson 1-5, 2-7 through 2-11 and modeling division of decimals. 
Science- We wrapped up the unit on the Solar System chapter 2 today and finished discussing planets. Students should have almost all the study guide done by now.  It is due Thursday.
HW: finish study guide

Language Arts
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Study for spelling test and vocabulary test this Friday (flashcards were handed out in class with words/definitions)
Start on 3 Pigs/Cinderella story
Rule 10 - Possessive Nouns

Wednesday - Aug. 26

Social Studies- We read together lesson 2 on the Northwest Native Americans (Nez Perce and Kwakiutl).  We saw a video on their hunting/gathering, fishing for salmon, building houses from cedar trees, making dugouts, and totem poles.  Their primary resources were salmon and wood.  The Nez Perce are from Idaho. Quiz on lesson 3 is tomorrow.  

HW: do p. 2 of the Native American booklet on the Nez Perce, p. 3 on Kwakiutls (the back page of the booklet has  rubric to define how your child will be graded).
Complete study guide questions #16-18, 22

Math
- Today was an introduction to the order of operations
HW: p. 573 #5-26

Language Arts - spelling p. 18, finish your success story, complete "Rule 3" on simple and complete subjects (have your child show you the difference between the simple and complete subject of a sentence - we've done it for 2 days now)

Thursday - Aug. 27


Friday - Aug. 28