For 9/17- 9/21

Monday FreeRangers

Language Arts

• Read chapters 6-9 in Northern Lights.
• When the book mentions a location, see if you can find it on your map.  Highlight any place that is mentioned.
• ★Complete the vocabulary sheet for chapters 6-9.  Use this as practice looking up words in the dictionary!  (Don't worry about writing all of the words in the definition!  Find the meaning that our author is using in the book and just write it in your own words.)
• They did a GREAT JOB with the Chapters 1-5 vocabulary words in class! 
• Here is a link for a Quizlet set based on these words.  Use the flashcards or games to help practice the vocabulary words!

• As you read about places, plants, and animals in your book, add them to your (GREEN) Field Guide!   You have three sections that we created.  Just add information that you find You don't have to write a lot about them, unless you find them really interesting!  (Make a Canada page!! You'll have a LOT to add as you read!)
• ★Want to learn more about Canada for your Field Guide?  Check out these websites or check out books from the library to learn more!
• National Geographic Kids Canada Profile
• Kids World Travel Guide 

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     Grammar

• We talked about NOUNS in class.  A noun is a word that is a person, place, thing, or idea.  Explain to your parents how a noun can be an idea.  Can you think of some examples?
• Here is a game to help you practice identifying nouns!
• Try this one!  Pop the bubbles for each noun.  (Choose "Identify the Nouns in the Sentence" to begin!)

Geography
There is a worksheet in your yellow folder.... THROW IT AWAY!  I looked through many sheets, and this one was supposed to be on an easier reading level... but it does not have accurate facts!  Just throw this away!
Use this one, instead!!

• If you didn't watch the videos and learn about last week's geography material, you might want to go back and catch up!
• Here is a silly video that helps you remember the seven continents!  We will be talking about them more in class... and we will soon start to spend time studying each continent!

Science

• If you completed the sheets from last week that went along with the website, please put them in your 3-ring binder so you don't lose them!
  
• If you didn't read through the websites last week, go back and catch up!  It will be hard for us to play the games, do the activities, and have discussions each week if we don't do the at-home assignments.
• I gave you TWO half-sheets of paper in class.  They are in your yellow folder.  The first one says "Classification".  Read the directions and jot down all of the words you can think of!  You can even go back and review the website from last week to spark your memory!  You can even color this sheet to make it stand out... we will be doing something cool with it in class!
• You have another sheet that has three columns: Know, Want to Know, and Learned.
• In the first column, write down things that you already know about classification. Some of you have learned about this before, and we have also talked about it in class.... but don't worry if you don't have a lot to write here!
• In the middle column, write down anything you want to find out about classifying living things.  Do you have any questions?  Anything you want to learn?  Write it here!
• Leave the third column BLANK!!!!
• Put these in your yellow folder and bring them back to class! 

Farm Fusion Journal Assignment  Choices

• Imagine you are a hen or a rooster.  In your own words, describe the molting process.
• Write a story or a poem about fall on a farm.  (It's not just about the weather... Remember, we talked about how the days get shorter?)

For 9/11-9/14

Monday FreeRangers

Parents, I gave the students a challenge!  When they read a book "just for fun", they can pick up a big index card from me and complete a short, simple "book report", which is also a book review.  We will be keeping all of these book reviews in a binder that I will keep in our library area.  That way, they can look and see what books their friends recommend!  If they (as a class) complete 25 cards, we will have a pizza party.  I realize that I may regret that number (they MAY complete that many sooner than I expected!), but I wanted to make an attainable goal and not over-shoot things!

Language Arts

ð      Read chapters 3-5 in Northern Lights.

ð      When the book mentions a location, see if you can find it on your map.  Highlight any place that is mentioned.

• In your 3-ring binder, add a divider tab for "Reading" and one for "Grammar".  I am going to encourage the students to keep their completed work in an organized way to help foster great study habits!  After they bring their work back to class in their weekly folders and we discuss them, they will add it to their 3-ring binders.

★ Complete the vocabulary sheet for chapters 1-5.  Use this as practice looking up words in the dictionary!  (Don't worry about writing all of the words in the definition!  Find the meaning that our author is using in the book and just write it in your own words.)

• ★ Here is a link for a Quizlet set based on these words.  Feel free to use the flashcards or games to help practice the vocabulary words!

★ "Diving Deeper" Journal Entry Choices

★ The M’Kmaq Indians had a legend about how the tides from at the Bay of Fundy.  Make up your own legend that explains something that happens in nature.  (Some examples - why a thunderstorm roars, why there is snow, how the stars got in the sky, what makes the waves of the ocean, why an animal looks a certain way, etc.)

 If you need another example of a legend, here is a video that you can watch! 

★ Do some research to find out about totem poles.  What are they?  Why were they made? Who made them?  Write all about them and share with the class!

Geography

• Add a divider tab for "Geography" in your 3-ring binder.
• Visit this website.  Read through and review what we learned in class about the globe.  Click "next" at the bottom of the page to learn more about latitude, longitude, and more!
  

ð      Watch this video to review what we learned. 

★  Here is another video that can get a little confusing… but the Prime (or Greenwich Meridian) and the International Dateline can just be a little confusing! Don't worry... just enjoy!

Science

• Add a divider tab for "Science" in your 3-ring binder.

ð      Here is a song that helps explain the Classification of Living Things. (Remember when we talked about Carolus Linnaeus??)

ð      Visit this website and read about the six kingdoms.  

• ★ Print this worksheet that goes along with the website.  As you read, fill in the blanks as you go!  Put it in your folder to bring to class.
• ★ taxonomy!

Farm Fusion Journal Assignment for 9/17

• If you could be ANY animal, what would it be?  Tell us why!

Welcome!

Welcome!

This is where you will find your weekly at-home assignments.  Bookmark this link.... You will need it frequently!

For May 14

End of the Year Party Sign Ups (email/text me to add)

Party is combined for the Monday Class & Tues/Thurs Academic Classes.

Party will be Friday 5/18 from 11:30-2:00

Drinks – bottles of water	Raymond
Drinks – juice boxes/cans/etc	Scarborough
Drinks – juice boxes/cans/etc	Morris
Pizza (I’ll get some pepperoni & some cheese)	Longino
Fruit	Morris
Veggies	Akeman
Dessert	Noble (cupcakes)
Dessert	Condon
Other	*Kasinger (Finger Sandwiches for non-pizza eaters!)
Popsicles	Longino
Plates/Napkins/Forks	Burch

Grammar 

• We talked about root words and suffixes in class.  We'll be working on prefixes and suffixes at home this week.  Talk about root words, suffixes, and prefixes whenever they pop up in your at-home spelling and language arts lessons!

• Parents, if you like that video, here is a link to some others by them!
• Remember, when you add a suffix to a word that ends in a consonant and has a short vowel sound, you must double the final consonant.  (Example - hop + ing = hopping)
• If you have a y at the end of a root word and the letter before it is a consonant, you may need to change the y to an i before adding the suffix that begins with a vowel.  (Examples- scary + er = scarier)  This isn't needed for suffixes that begin with an i... just keep the y!
• If you have a root word that ends with a silent e and has a long vowel sound in the word, you must drop the e when you add a suffix that begins with a vowel (example - hope + ing = hoping)
• Sometimes, the -ed suffix can sound like the letter T!  If your child struggles with spelling words like these, this game may help!

Science

• Show your parents your landforms flip book from class.

Reading

• Read these pages before class!

Handwriting 

• Parents, watch your child write at least one assignment this week.  Watch to see if they are forming the letters correctly, not just if they look correct in the end.  If they are using too many strokes, starting the letter at the bottom, etc, they may have a correct 'looking' letter, but they will be creating habits that will slow them down later on!

History- 

• Read this page on the Constitution and be ready to discuss it next week!

Journal-

• This is your very last journal entry!  I'm going to let you write about absolutely ANYTHING you'd like!  It can be fiction or non-fiction.  
• You must show me your best handwriting, capitalization, and punctuation.  Try to write great sentences!  If you can, write in paragraph form!