P.S. 249 Name: ______
Ms. Hans/ 4-310 Week of November 28, 2016
Parent Signature/ Firma: ______
Home Fun #13!
Reminders:
o Use the tools in your binder for help with and to self-assess your reading homework.
o Use the OPINION checklist to self-assess your writing homework!!!
o Welcome Back- work on your S.S. project!
Self Assessment / Teacher FeedbackChecklist for Self-Assessment
o I am remembering to write in my Writers’ Notebook every night!
o I am remembering to stop and jot in my Readers’ Notebook daily.
o I am close reading all texts in the packet.
o I am remembering to answer reading response with specific text-evidence.
o I am reading independently and logging in my reading every night.
***Use the checklist to help you make a goal for this week’s homework
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Reading Skills for Unit #1· Inferring about characters and other story elements – Character traits
· Character Response and Changes
· Analyzing parts of the story
· Determining Theme
· Supporting thinking with text evidence / Math Problem-Solving Strategies:
· Make a place value chart
· Draw a picture
· Make a tape-diagram
· Make an estimation
Reading Vocabulary:
Story elements, re-tell, synthesize (put together), envisionment), refer, complicated characters, Grounded ideas, inferring, theories, precise, orienting , main idea, supporting details, compare and contrast, chronological, cause and effect, problem and solution
THEME=LESSON
MAIN IDEA=CENTRAL MESSAGE
Academic Vocabulary:
· Analyze- look at closely
· Grounded Ideas: Ideas that are not made up out of nowhere but can be supported with evidence
· Support – use evidence from the text to back-up claims (ideas) that you have based on what you are reading.
Close Reading- thinking about what you are reading and asking questions as you read. Writing notes, circling words, underlining sentences help you to do this! / Science Words: Scientific inquiry, scientific method, hypothesis, procedure, variable, observations, food chain, producer, consumer, decomposer,
Social Studies Words: Algonquian, Iroquois, tribe, wigwam, maize, clan, settler, sachem, wampum,explorer longhouse , colonial
Math Words:
· Partial products(24 × 6 = (20 × 6) + (4 × 6) = 120 + 24)
· Prime number –Only have 2 factors, 1 and itself, For example: 3,7,11, 13
· Composite number –have more than 2 factors
· Product -the result of multiplication-
· Factors-numbers that can be multiplied together to get
a product.
***Look inside your binder for tools to help you with your homework!!!
Monday
1) Reading Response Homework- Closely Read “Travel Team Heartbreak” page 16
2)Reading– Read your independent reading book for 30 minutes. Log in your reading log.
-In your reading notebook- Use your Stop and Jot menu and CHOOSE TWO STOP AND JOT PROMPTS TO WRITE ABOUT IN YOUR NOTEBOOK..
Tyler brought along 8/10 of a dried fruit mix. He ate 3/10 of the mix and his friend ate 2/10 of the mix. What fraction of the mix is left?3)Problem Solving:
**Hint: draw a diagram
Study and OrganizeWhat are you asked to find? What information do you know? / Line Up a Plan
Choose and Operation
and think about the steps needed / Verify
Make a quick estimation
Carry out the plan / Examine
Check your work over
Is your answer reasonable?
5)Writing – In your Writers’ Notebook- Write an opinion essay about your favorite place to visit over the summer.
For Example: Redhook park is the best place to visit over the summer. Redhook park is the best place to visit over the summer because there are many activities. Redhook park is the best place to visit because there are many food-trucks to try out. The last reason why Redhook park is the best place to visit is that there are many friendly people.
Use your opinion checklist to check over your writing!
Tuesday
1.Reading Response Homework – Closely Read “Travel Team Heartbreak” page 17
Reading Skill: parts to whole
Reading Skill: Envisioning
2) Reading– Read your independent reading book for 30 minutes. Log in your reading log.
In your Reader’s Notebook copy the chart below and figure out the meaning of the words: vigil, and camaraderie.
Example:
Word / Clues- in the word or text / Meaning of the word in my own wordsAccumulate / When you drink soda a huge dose goes straight to your liver. /
Maria put two angles together to form a straight line. One of those angles measures 88 degrees. How many degrees does the other angle measure?
3)Problem Solving:
*Hint: How many degrees
does a straight line measure?
Study and OrganizeWhat are you asked to find? What information do you know? / Line Up a Plan
Choose and Operation
and think about the steps needed / Verify
Make a quick estimation
Carry out the plan / Examine
Check your work over
Is your answer reasonable?
4)Math Facts – practice multiplication/division flash cards for 10-15 minutes every night.
5)Writing –– In your Writers’ Notebook- Write an opinion essay answering the following question:Do you think it was better for Jeremy to have made the travel team or do you think it was better that he didn’t make the team? ***USE TEXT-EVIDENCE***
**Use your opinion checklist to check over your writing!
Wednesday:
1) Reading Response Homework – Closely Read “How Fast Food Helped to Catch a Jewel Burglar” page 25
Reading Skill: Main Idea and supporting details –SEE THE SCAFFOLD FOR HELP
.2) Reading– Read your independent reading book for 30 minutes. Log in your reading log.
In your Reader’s Notebook copy the chart below and figure out the meaning of the words: capabilities, molecules, analyzed.
Word / Clues- in the word or text / Meaning of the word in my own wordsAccumulate / When you drink soda a huge dose goes straight to your liver. /
To get enough money to go to on a field trip, every student in a club has to raise $53 by selling chocolate bars. There are 9 students in the club. How much money does the club need to raise to go on the field trip?
3)Problem Solving:
Study and OrganizeWhat are you asked to find? What information do you know? / Line Up a Plan
Choose and Operation
and think about the steps needed / Verify
Make a quick estimation
Carry out the plan / Examine
Check your work over
Is your answer reasonable?
4)Math Facts – practice multiplication/division flash cards for 10-15 minutes every night.
5)Writing –– Finish discussion flash draft!
Thursday:
1) Reading Response Homework – Closely Read “How Fast Food Helped to Catch a Jewel Burglar” page 25
Reading Skill: Author’s Craft –SEE THE SCAFFOLD FOR HELP
.2)Reading– Read your independent reading book for 30 minutes. Log in your reading log.
In your Reader’s Notebook- Create a double entry journal with this line from the text
**USE THE PUSH YOUR THINKING PROMPTS- MUST BE 1 PAGE LONG
Quote / What it makes you think.Police had that spoon analyzed, and it offered up a clear DNA sample.
Amaya read 64 pages last week. Amaya’s older brother, Rogelio, read twice as many pages in the same amount of time. Their big sister, Elianna, is in high school and read 4 times as many pages as Rogelio did. How many pages did Elianna read last week?
3)Problem Solving:
**CLOSELY READ !!!!!
Study and OrganizeWhat are you asked to find? What information do you know? / Line Up a Plan
Choose and Operation
and think about the steps needed / Verify
Make a quick estimation
Carry out the plan / Examine
Check your work over
Is your answer reasonable?
4)Math Facts – practice multiplication/division flash cards for 10-15 minutes every night.
5)Writing –– In your Writers’ Notebook- Write an opinion essay about your opinion on whether children should have a babysitter or be allowed to stay home by themselves.
Friday-Sunday
1. Reading– Read your independent reading book for 30 minutes. Log in your reading log.
In your Reader’s Notebook- Use the menu of stop and jots to CHOOSE something you want to jot about each day- You should have 2 pages completed-
2. Social Studies: Work on your Social Studies project
3.Read, read, read and log your reading EVERY NIGHT!!
4.Finish Homework packet.
5.Math Facts – practice multiplication/division flash cards for 10-15 minutes every night
Don’t get lazy with your homework, good habits are important for learning!!!
Scaffolds
Question the text to MONITOR FOR SENSE!
-Ask Questions Before Reading: Summary Template
What is the genre of this text? What lens should I read this text with?
Who are the characters?
Do I know anything about the topic?
What do I expect to learn about?
-Ask Questions During Reading:
What am I learning about the topic?
What is the main character like?
How is the main character changing?
-What words or ideas keep repeating?
--Ask Questions After Reading:
What is the main idea of this text?
What is the author saying about this topic?
What lesson does the author teach?
What does the character learn?
Prompts to Push your thinking when writing in your Reader’s Notebooks
· This makes me think…
· This connects to….
· To add on to this idea….
· In other words….
Figuring out the Main Idea
¨ Look for repeating words
¨ Look at the subtitle or first sentence in a paragraph to give you the topic.
¨ WHAT is the text about.- TOPIC
¨ What about the WHAT is the author saying?
¨ What did the author really want you to learn here?
¨ The main idea is NOT a QUESTION!
Main idea- 1 sentence- Not a question!-supporting detail #1
-supporting detail #2
-supporting detail #3
Example:
Main Idea:Droughts cause negative effects.
-They cause lakes to dry up.
-They kill trees.
Here are the some of the most common techniques informational author’s use:
Multiplication Boot Camp !!!
Every day, Penelope jogs three laps around the playground to keep in shape. The playground is rectangular with a width of 163 m and a length of 320 m.
a. Find the total amount of meters in one lap.
b. Determine how many meters Penelope jogs in three laps.
Study and OrganizeWhat are you asked to find? What information do you know? / Line Up a Plan
Choose and Operation
and think about the steps needed / Verify
Make a quick estimation
Carry out the plan / Examine
Check your work over
Is your answer reasonable?
There are 5,280 feet in a mile. What is the total number of feet in 6 miles?
A 31,280
B 31,680
C 33,680
D 35,280
Name Date
Partial Products / Standard Algorithmb. 3 1 5
× 4 / 3 1 5
× 4
1. Solve using each method.
Partial Products / Standard Algorithma. 4 6
_× 2_ / 4 6
× 2
2. Solve using the standard algorithm.
a.2 3 2
× 4 / b.
1 4 2
× 6 / c.
3 1 4
× 7
d.
4 4 0
× 3 / e.
5 0 7
× 8 / f.
3 8 4
× 9
3. What is the product of 8 and 54?