-----~~~~~ HOMEWORK for Monday,December 28, 2009 ~~~~~------ Contact me: Jessica.Harvey@pgcps.org - 301-497-3994 HOMEWORK: - Please read ALL... I improved our site for you :) . GET PROGRESS REPORT SIGNED ! Reading log - DUE TUESDAY, December 22, 2009..when we get back. Reading - I moved reading groups this week due to the lack of effort on the homework. Please ask your child if they were moved and why they were moved. MATH- MSA Finish Line Page 36-39 Math book online: copy and paste. http://pgcounty.scottforesman.com/swxC-blPp-o3Dx-Tycg-GgoY-xxcL-koTt-x6Gw/ www.FirstinMath.com - Each student should play for 10 minutes.. at least!! If you are reading this... you will earn a special bracelet once you earn 1,000 stickers!! Science - ... Endangered Animal Project.. WILL BE DUE LATE JANUARY 2010 !! Please email me ( Jessica.Harvey@pgcps.org ) so that I can email you your child's work so that they may work over Winter Break. THE DUE DATE WAS EXTENDED TO: Will talk to students on Monday.. we will extend our due date... January , 2010 Make sure that ALL questions are answered and complete. Endangered Animal Project This project needs to be done in PowerPoint or on paper and is due on January , 2010. - Requirement # 2 – 8 need to have a title and be written or typed in paragraph form, using QPA. - Pictures need to be on each page or slide. Requirements: 1. Title Page, author, picture of animal 2. ANIMAL APPEARANCE a. How does the animal look? (Use details) b. What size is your animal? (weight, height, length) c. Do the male and female look alike or different? (explain) 3. ANIMAL HABITAT a. Where does the animal live? (Parts of the world) b. What kind of home does it have? (describe it) c. Does it make the home or find the home? 4. FOOD a. Is your animal a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore? b. What does your animal eat? c. Where does it find food? 5. BABIES a. Are the babies born alive or from an egg? b. How does the mother care for its baby? c. Is more than one baby born at a time? 6. UNUSUAL HABITS and INTERESTING FACTS a. Eating? b. Sleeping? c. Playing? d. Facts? e. About how many are still alive? 7. BEHAVIOR TOWARDS MANKIND a. Is the animal dangerous to mankind? b. Will the animal harm other animals? c. Was it ever used as a pet? 8. WHY IS IT ENDANGERED? a. Why is it in danger? b. Who is hurting it? c. Why and How is it being hurt or damaged? 9. HOW CAN WE HELP? a. Can we help? What can we do? b. Can school-aged children help? How? c. Who can help? How? 10. Bibliography – A bibliography is a list of books or internet pages you used. It is in alphabetical order from the last name of the author. AT LEAST 2 SOURCES! I listed some examples below of a bibliography. EXAMPLES: BOOK: Author, (Date published). Book Title. Publisher. INTERNET SOURCE: Web page title. URL- www. date viewed. --PE-- Winter break activity log to complete over the winter break for a homework assignment. This assignment is DUE on their first PE class after winter break. Ms. Santuccio Physical Education Teacher aubri.santuccio@pgcps.org ----------------- SPELLING CONTRACT: You must equal 35 points by due date. The night before the due date the homework will always be a parent given Pre-Test with signature. You may only do each choice one time per week. For example: Monday night - Reverse ABC Order-- 10 pts Tuesday night –Create a cartoon using 10 words- 10 pts Wednesday night- Write words as Ladder Words 15 points Total by Thursday morning 35 points Thursday night – Pretest by adult with adult signature 10 Point Assignment Choices Write your words 3 times in cursive Write your words 3x each in 3 different colors Make a word scramble and solve it using your words Write an antonym for each word Look up your words in the dictionary and write their meaning Classify the words according to part of speech Write a newspaper article using 10 or more of the words Write a great story using at least 10 of your spelling words Write newspaper headlines using your words Make a word search with all of your words Create a cartoon strip using at least 10 spelling word Reverse ABC order 15 Point Assignment Choices Cut the words out of magazines and newspapers and make a collage on construction paper Cut out a picture from a newspaper or a magazine and use spelling words to write a story about the picture write your words in a secret code (include the code legend) Ladder Words – Write each spelling word as shown below: Example: exit e ex exi exit Put 15 spelling words in sentences. (One word per sentence) Write a letter to a friend using all of your spelling words Type your spelling list four times on a computer, with each list typed in a different font. Print it out. Make 15 silly sentences ( In this one you choose a spelling word and each letter in the sentence is the beginning of a word in the sentence. For example for the word VILLAGE, you would write Vanessa In Lollipop Lane Ate Green Eggs.)