HOMEWORK: November 9-13, 2009 (wk#14)
Theme 3: Better Together
"Head, Body, Legs": A Story from Liberia (11)
Spelling:(1)eat, leaf, mean, queen, need
(2)seek,baby,pony,he,we
(3)foam,told,family,four,hear
Vocabulary: (1) swung: moved back and forth (verb)
(2) attached: stuck to (verb)
(3) gasped: breathed in fast and loud (verb)
(4) breathe: to take air into your lungs and send it out again
(verb)
(5) frantically: in an excited or worried way (adverb)
(6) delicious: tasting very good (adjective)
Language: In Language we will continue to review possessive nouns: *A
possessive noun shows who or what owns or has something. *Add an apostrophe
(‘) and –s to a singlular noun to make it possessive (dog’s). *Add an
apostrophe to most plural nouns to make them possessive (animals’). *Add an
apostrophe (‘) and –s to plural nouns that do not end in s (children’s);
use all rules learned to date: capital letters begin a sentence, capital
letters in abbreviations, names of people, pets, street names & titles;
capital letters in the days of the week and months of the year; names of
schools; commas, periods, question marks, exclamationpoints, is and are,
was and were, am; write words in ABC orderto the second letter; answer
questions in a complete sentence; action verbs; SYNONYMS: words that mean
almost the same thing but are spelled differently. ANTONYMS: words that
are opposite in meaning.
Monday: write a sent. with Spelling wds on row 1; review Vocabulary;
Read: “The Story of the Giant Carrot": p. 298 and retell it to someone;
copy & choose the correct symbol: < (less than) > (greater than) = (equal
to): 89__66 74__63 77__96 58__85 88__88
49__94 15__15 16___25
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Tuesday: write a sent. with Spelling wds on row 2; review Vocabulary;
Read:”Head, Body, Legs”: p.300 and retell it to someone; (q=quarters,
d=dimes, n=nickels, p=pennies) tell how much money it is: 3q, 1d=___ 2q,
2d, 3n=___ 8d, 9p=___ 87p=___ 1q, 6d, 8p=___ 2d, 10n,
5p=___ 19n, 3p=___ 4q=___
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Wednesday: write a sent. with Spelling wds on row 3; review Vocabulary;
Read “Head, Body, Legs”: p. 300 and retell it to someone; copy & solve:
38+11=____ 24+53=____ 18+61=____
44+44=____ 59+10=____ 82+7+____
77+20=____ 93+6=____
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Thursday: choose ANY 5 Spelling wds & write a story; review Vocabulary &
story;
copy & solve: 80+19=____ 66+32=____ 45+24=____
83+16=____
** Study for Spelling, Language, Math, and Reading Tests on Friday.
