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Weekly Home Fun Sheet

Week of January 17th – January 20th 2017

Mrs. Kouroupos-White

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Monday 1/16/17 / School Closed MLK Day
Tuesday 1/17/17 / Reading: Getting to Know Characters. 30-40 minutes of reading. Fill in your reading log. Remember that readers predict the lesson that the book will teach. Try out the preview work we did in class today and jot down what lesson the story might tell and explain how you know. Use the following sentence starter:
“This seems like the kind of story that will teach you…”
Writing: Narrative Writing. This week, our goal is to bring our characters to life by including details, talk, and action. As you begin a new piece make sure you are including details (descriptions, actions), talk (characters talking back and forth to each other/conversations), and actions. Your piece is due on Friday.
Word Study: -ur words. Read the –ur word list. Add 5 other –ur words to the list.
Math: Short Response #1.
Wednesday 1/18/17 / Reading: Getting to Know Characters. 30-40 minutes of reading. Fill in your reading log. Remember that readers notice how all the characters in stories grow and change. Tonight, play close attention to how the characters act across the whole story. How have they changed? (their thinking, feelings, actions)
Writing: See Tuesday’s assignment
Math: Short Response #2
Word Study: Count out the number of syllables in each word and draw lines to divide the word into its syllable parts.
Thursday 1/19/17 / Reading: Getting to Know Characters. 30-40 minutes of reading. Fill in your reading log. Remember that readers reread the ending of stories to understand the meaning. Tonight, reread the ending of a story you have finished reading and jot down what the story was all about and what lesson the story teaches.
Writing: See Tuesday’s assignment
Math: Short Response #3
Social Studies: Social Studies: Civic Ideas and Practices. Read the article, “Important People,” and answer the comprehension questions that follow.
Friday 1/20/17 / Reading: Getting to Know Characters. 30-40 minutes of reading. Fill in your reading log. Remember that readers look for similar lessons across books. Tonight, take a look through your reading baggie and try to find stories that have similar lessons. Jot those lessons in your HW notebook.
Math: Short Response #4
Writing: See Tuesday’s assignment
Science: Balance and Motion. Write a science reflection about what you learned about Balance and Motion from today’s science experiment. What questions do you have about balance and motion?
Weekly Content Area Vocabulary Words
1. timeline 2. urban 3. immigrants
4. transportation 5. buildings 6. technology
7. transportation 8. resources 9. citizens
10. balance 11. motion 12. level
13. push 14. gravity 15. pull
Word Study
-ur word list
1. burger
2. urban
3. burn
4. churning
5. turkey
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10. / Syllable Practice
Ex: understand – 3 syllables
un/der/stand
1. exaggerate
2. disturbing
3. absolutely
4. wonderful
5. congratulations
6. imagination
Sight Words—List 2 Review Nightly!
laugh again already special between choose
which doesn’t important feelings mean dream
please couldn’t our honest great speak buy
use quickly suppose though yesterday almost
join learn sure enough easy wonderful

Short Response Math Word Problems

Answer the following questions in your HW notebook. Use place value disks to solve.

Place Value Disks

1. The blue team scored 97 fewer points than the white team. The blue team scored 169 points. How many points did the white team score? Show all of your work and write a statement explaining your answer.

2. Kendra and Jojo are counting their marbles. Kendra has 138, and Jojo has 162. Kendra says they have 300 marbles altogether, but Jojo says they have 290. Use words, numbers, or a model to prove who is correct. Show all of your work and write a statement explaining your answer.

3. There are 338 apples, 216 bananas, 224 peaches, and 112 pears at the farmer’s market. How many pieces of fruit are at the market? Show all of your work and write a statement explaining your answer.

4. Billy sold 150 fewer magazines than Alex. Alex sold 428 magazines. How many magazines did Billy sell? Show all of your work and write a statement explaining your answer.

Math Vocabulary: Review Nightly

sum difference thousands hundreds place value chart

ones tens place value disks value exchange less than equal to

Tuesday

The blue team scored 97 fewer points than the white team. The blue team scored 169 points. How many points did the white team score?

Verify your Plan with Action
Use your plan to solve the problem. Show all of your work. / Examine your results
☐ Is your answer accurate?
☐Explain your thinking using math language and tell all the steps you took.
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Wednesday

Kendra and Jojo are counting their marbles. Kendra has 138, and Jojo has 162. Kendra says they have 300 marbles altogether, but Jojo says they have 290. Use words, numbers, or a model to prove who is correct.

Study the problem
☐Did I underline the question?
☐Do I know what I am asked to find?
The problem is asking me to find
the______
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______/ Organize the facts
☐List the facts
☐Cross out the unnecessary facts
Fact 1:______
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Fact 2:______
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Fact 3:______
______/ Line up a plan
I will solve this problem by:
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Verify your Plan with Action
Use your plan to solve the problem. Show all of your work. / Examine your results
☐ Is your answer accurate?
☐Explain your thinking using math language and tell all the steps you took.
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Thursday

There are 338 apples, 216 bananas, 224 peaches, and 112 pears at the farmer’s market. How many pieces of fruit are at the market?

Friday

Billy sold 150 fewer magazines than Alex. Alex sold 428 magazines. How many magazines did Billy sell?