Monday 11/23/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Thanksgiving Poems
Spelling - Poem Illustration
Math - Cards w/ Long Division
Science - Beaver Dam Building
Handwriting - "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes
Tuesday 11/24/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Finish the book!
English - Thanksgiving Poems - Final Draft
Spelling - Poem Border
Math - Geometric Line Drawings
Science - Beaver Dam Analysis
Handwriting - "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd
NO SCHOOL Wednesday - Friday
LAST WEEK
Monday 11/16/09
Reading - DEAR TIME / Math Games
English - Tall Tale Teacher Conferences / Final Draft
Spelling - Unit 13 Definitions Crossword / Unit 13 Rainbow Words - pg. 84 (6-20,26-30)
Math - x Timed Test / pg. 113
Science - Tall Tale Teacher Conferences / Final Draft - DUE WEDNESDAY
Handwriting - "I will speak ill of no man and speak the good I know of everybody." - Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday 11/17/09
Reading - Weekly Reader - Smashing Success
English - Book Buddies w/ Mrs. Sharp - MAth Facts turkeys / FINAL DRAFTS DUE THURSDAY
Spelling - pg. 86 (1-25) - DUE THURSDAY
Math - pg. 113 (Describe the process of Long Division, #''s 17,18,20 and 27)
Science - Planet Earth - Fresh Water
Handwriting - "The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." - Dan Rather
Wednesday 11/18/09
Reading - OKLAHOMA SCIENCE MUESEM - FIELD TRIP
Spelling - BRING A SACK LUNCH!!!
Math -
English - FINAL DRAFTS DUE THURSDAY
Science -
Penmanship - "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." - Norman Vincent Peale
Thursday 11/19/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue- Chapter 15-16
Spelling - Unit 13 Test
Math - pg. 119 (16-25)
English - Possessive Dialogue
Science - B4-15 / Notes
Penmanship - "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb
Friday 11/20/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 17-18
Spelling - Character Assembly
Math - Prime / Composite Numbers / Homework - WKBK 30
English - N/A
Science - Food Web Diagram and Paragraph
Penmanship - "The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
LAST WEEK
Monday 11/9/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Tall Tale Teacher Conferences / Final Draft
Spelling - Unit 9 Definitions Crossword - DUE / TEST THURSDAY
Math - Divisibility Motions / Memorization
Science - Review Sheet - Go over Answers
Handwriting - "If we all don't row, the boat won't go." - Unknown
Tuesday 11/10/09
Reading - Jacobs Rescue - Ch.7-9
English - Book Buddies Scavenger Hunt - Outdoor Classroom
Spelling - Unit 9 Definitions Crossword
Math - Divisibility worksheet
Science - Review Game - TEST TOMORROW!
Handwriting - "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg
Wednesday 11/11/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 10
Spelling - Unit 9 Definitions Crossword
Math - wksht. 19-20
English - Computer Lab - Picture Downloads
Science - Adapatations Test
Penmanship - "The more you know, the less you need." - Aboriginal Saying
Thursday 11/16/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 11-
Spelling - Unit 9 Definitions / Spelling Test
Math - pg. 97 (7-22)
English - pg. 101 (6-15)
Science - Planet Earth - Mountains
Penmanship - "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
Friday 11/17/09
Reading - Jacob's rescue - Chapter 14 - Questions
Spelling -
Math - pg. 111 (7-21, 33-38)
English - pg. 103 (6-15)
Science - B44-15 / Notes
Penmanship - "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
LAST WEEK
Monday 11/2/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Tall Tale Teacher Conferences / Final Draft
Spelling - Vocabulary Focus
Math - Metric System Sliders
Science - B. Nye Video
Handwriting - "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy
Tuesday 11/2/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 4 / Questions
English - Picture Book - Picture List ; Book Buddies
Spelling - Vocab. Definitions / Sentence
Math - pg. 158 (13-30)
Science -Camouflage / Mimicry Paragraph
Handwriting - "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Harper lee
Wednesday 11/4/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 5
Spelling - Vocabulary / Context Usage
Math - worksheet metric system
English - Adjective Sharades
Science - Camouflage / Mimicry Paragraphs and Presentations
Penmanship - "
Thursday 11/5/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 6-7
Spelling - Definitions Worksheet
Math - worksheet 86/252
English - School Adjectives Chart
Science - Camouflage / Mimicry Paragraphs and Presentations
Penmanship - "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings
Friday 11/6/09
Reading - Weekly Reader -
Spelling - Definitions Test - Write a sentence using the words correctly.
Math - Divisibility Worksheet / WEEKEND HOMEWORK - wkbk. 39 (5-13) 40 (1-9)
English - pg. 328-329 (Answers only)
Science - Adaptations Review Sheet
Penmanship - "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." - Samuel Butler
LAST WEEK
Monday 10/26/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Tall Tale Teacher Conferences / Final Draft
Spelling - Unit 8 Definitions Crossword
Math - pg. 285 (7-29, 37) odd / SHOW digital root for 23, 25, 27, 29 -- EXTRA CREDIT (30-31)
Science - Finish Planet Eart - "Pole to Pole"
Handwriting - "All things are difficult before they are easy." - Thomas Fuller
Tuesday 10/27/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 1
English - Teacher Conference / Tall Tales
Spelling - Unit 8 Definitions Crossword - DUE TOMORROW
Math - pg. 287 (9-25) odd (43,29-50)
Science - Camouflage Activity
Handwriting - "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.' - David McCullough
Wednesday 10/28/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 2
Spelling - Unit 8 Definitions Crossword - DUE TOMORROW
Math - worksheet 18/58
English - Teacher Conference / Tall Tale
Science - Finish Notes / Camouflage Activitiy
Penmanship - "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday 10/29/09
Reading - Jacob's Rescue - Chapter 3
Spelling - Unit 8 Definitions / Spelling Test
Math - wksht. 18/58; Multiplication/Division Timed Test
English - Book Buddy Letters - Informal Letter
Science - B. Nye Video / Begin Camouflage - Mimicry Paragraph
Penmanship - "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
Henry C. Link
Friday 10/30/09
NO SCHOOL
Monday 10/12/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Finish Tall Tale Rough Draft
Spelling - pg. 49 (1-18) pg. 51 (1-8)
Math - 1st Qtr. Review Sheet
Science - Finsh A42-49 / Notes
Handwriting - "Being fashioned of the same dust, let us be merciful as well as just." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tuesday 10/13/09
Reading - Weekly Reader - "Storm Chasers"
English - Tall Tales - Peer Edit
Spelling - pg. 49 (1-18) pg. 51 (1-8) due tomorrow
Math - Board Review - Go over problems from review shee and have parents sign for EXTRA CREDIT!!
Science - Planet Earth - "Ocean Deep"
Handwriting - "To imaine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination." - Cynthia Ozick
LAST WEEK
Monday 9/28/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - pg. 88 (1-15) Write all the nouns and what type
Spelling - Unit 5 Crossword - Due Thursday
Math - Multiplication Timed Test - 5x each / pg. 78 (5-25 odd) / Sudoku
Science - Library Research
Handwriting - "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere effort, and skillful execution." - M.J. Orricho
Tuesday 9/29/09
Reading - pg.42 - 45 / 9 Vocab / workbook 13-14
English -
Spelling - Unit 5 Crossword
Math - pg. 61 (7-27)
Science - Ugly Bug Vote
Handwriting - "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous
Wednesday 9/30/09
Reading - pg. A46-63
Spelling - Unit 5 Definitions Crossword
Math - pg. 285 (7-29, 37)
English - pg. 156 (1-25)
Science - A42-51 / Answer questions 1-3 on A49, and 1-2 on A51
Penmanship - "A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it." - Unknown
Thursday 10/1/09
Reading - True Story of 3 Little Pigs
Spelling - Unit 5 Definitions Test
Math - pg. 66(4,6-11) and pg.67(1-6)
English - You're the Teacher 1.1
Science - Microscopes / Wet Slide
Penmanship - "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert H. Humphrey
Friday 10/2/09
Reading - pg. 46-63 / Test
Spelling - Unit 6 Rainbow Words
Math - pg. 75 (7-14) 3 ways
English - You're the Teacher 1.2
Science - Video / worksheet 20-21
Spanish - los colores y los numeros
Penmanship - "You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard
Monday 9/14/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
English - Video Scence
Spelling - Unit 3 Crossword
Math - Sudoku
Science - Handwashing
Handwriting - ".We must all live together as brothers or perish alone as fools." - Dr. martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday 9/15/09
Reading - Redo Rockband Scence
Spelling - Unit 3 Crossword - DUE THURSDAY
Math - pg. 15 (6-38) even
Science - Microscope Basics
Handwriting - "Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." - Charles Spencer
Wednesday 9/16/09
Reading - Computer Lab - Ugly Bug Research
Spelling - Unit 3 Definitions Crossword - DUE TOMORROW
Math - pg. 15 (7-29)odd / pg. 17(1-4)
English - pg 10 (1-10)
Science - Bug Descriptive Notes using Microscope
Penmanship - "It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
Thursday 9/17/09
Reading - Video Skit
Spelling - Unit 3 Definitions Test
Math - pg. 22 (10-35)
English - Video Skit
Science - Ugly Bug Report - Due TUESDAY!
Penmanship - "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. " - Charles Darwin
Friday 9/18/09
Reading - Video
Spelling - Unit 4 Rainbow Words - 3x each - pg. 30 (8-20, 26-30)
Math - worksheet 7/8 --- weekend homework - workbook 7
English - Video
Science - UGLY BUG DUE TUESDAY - Chapter 1 Review Sheet
Spanish - la independencia de Mexico
Penmanship - "Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." - Janet Long
Monday 8/31/09
NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY
Tuesday 9/8/09
Reading - President Obama Speech
Spelling - Unit 2 Definitions Crossword - DUE THURSDAY
Math - Board Games
Science - Ugly Bug Contest / Finish Cells
Handwriting - "Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Wednesday 9/9/09
Reading - Powerpoint Basics
Spelling - Unit 2 Definitions Crossword - DUE TOMORROW
Math - pg. 12 (16-27, 37-39, Quick Check #5)
English -Shurley Jingles
Science - A12-21 / Notes
Penmanship - "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach
Thursday 9/10/09
Reading - DEAR TIME / Dibels Testing
Spelling - Unit 2 Definitions / Spelling Test
Math - Grade pg. 12 together / worksheet
English - 4 Types of Sentences - Examples
Science - Finish A12-21 / Notes
Penmanship - "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Friday 9/11/09
Reading - Video Skits
Spelling - Unit 3 Rainbow Words
Math - worksheet 4 and 5 / HOMEWORK - pg. 10
English - Shurley Jingles / 4 Sentences
Science - Classification Lab / worksheet 17
Spanish -
Penmanship - “Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
- Samuel Butler
LAST WEEK
Monday 8/31/09
Reading - DEAR TIME
Spelling - Unit 1 Definitions Crossword - DUE THURSDAY
Math - Sudoku / Multiplication Timed Test - Missed 5x each
English -Courage Brainstorm
Science - Scientific Method Flow Chart - DUE TOMORROW
Handwriting- "It's not where you start, it's where you end up. You haven't failed until you stop trying." --Unknown
Tuesday 9/1/09
Reading - GATES Pretest - Comprehension
Spelling - Unit 1 Definitions Crossword - DUE THURSDAY
Math - Math Pretest / AMath
English - Interview Paragraph
Science - A4-11 / Notes
Handwriting - "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
Wednesday 9/2/09
Reading - GATES Pretest - Vocabulary
Spelling - Unit 1 Crossword - Test / Due Tomorrow!
Math - worksheet 4/5
English -Computer Lab - Power Point Basics
Science - Finish A4-11 / Notes / Celery Lab
Penmanship - "Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you." - Mark Steven Johnson
Thursday 9/3/09
Reading - "Terrific" by Jon Agee
Spelling - Unit 1 Spelling / Definitions Test
Math - Addition / Subtraction Practice / Multiplication Timed Test - Missed problems 5x each
English - pg. 3 (6-15)
Science - Celery Lab / Bill Nye Video
Penmanship - "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." - Walter Lippmann
Friday 9/4/09
Reading - Trapped in Death Cave
Spelling - Unit 2 Pretest
Math - "Just About" worksheet
English - Interview Paragraph
Science - Plant / Animal Cells - Draw, label, and tell the function of each cell part. Then write a few sentences about how the plant and animal cells are different, and WHY?
Spanish -
Penmanship - "-"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb
Monday 8/24/09
Reading - Me In a Box Presentations
Spelling - GOTCHA!
Math - Multiplication timed Test / Corrections 5x each
English -Showcase Brainstorm
Science - Handwashing - postponed to next week
Handwriting- "What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind and body can achieve, and those who stay put will be champions." --Unknown
Tuesday 8/25/09
Reading - Procedures Manual
Spelling - If 99.9 % Were Good Enough
Math - pg. 5 (4-20, 26-32)
English - Showcase Brainstorm
Science - Lab Safety Posters - Due THURSDAY
Handwriting - "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark
Wednesday 8/26/09
Reading - A New Year / My Favorites
Spelling - N/A
Math - Grade pg. 5 / worksheets 1.1/15
English - Brainstorm
Science - S1-11 / Safety Posters - due tomorrow!
Penmanship - "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do." -Confucius
Thursday 8/27/09
Reading - I Am Unique
Spelling - N/A
Math -pg. 7 (4-24) --- Bonus (15-18)
English - Brainstorm
Science - S5-11 / Discuss
Penmanship - "Put all your eggs in one basket, and protect that basket!" - Mark Twain
Friday 8/28/09
Reading - Classmate Interview
Spelling - Unit 1 Pretest - Missed words 5x each
Math - pg. 25 (Set A&B) Expand using exponents
English - Free Day Friday
Science - Scientific Method Flow Chart
Spanish -
Penmanship - "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
LAST WEEK
Friday 8/22/09
Reading - Procedures Manual
Spelling - " "
Math - Name Tags
English - Listening Quiz
Science - Mr. Koch Quiz
Spanish - Procedures