Character Trait

Grammar

Math

Science

Tuesday

-Discuss the Word of the Week: 

Tolerance

-Brainstorm ideas about the word.

-Write the ideas in the Changing Lives activity book.

-Write a rough draft for the Word of the Week in the Changing Lives activity book.

-Write down all assignments in planner, even if they are completed.

-Get your planner signed by your parent/guardian every night.

-Write in the Daily Writing Composition book:  Found:  Unusual Plant

The snowdrop is a flower that blooms in January.  Pretend you are a famous botanist who has just discovered a very unusual plant that only blooms in January.  Write about your discovery.

-Write rough drafts of an expository essay, a narrative essay, and a descriptive essay for the topic of A Different Kind of Hero.

-Practice manuscript and cursive handwriting.

-Participate in the Book It Program.

-Divide with compatible numbers: 

Pages 138-141 and WB 34.

http://www.sbgmath.com/studdy_buds/MA98bHC5p029-030.pdf

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/math4/d/estimatingquotientl.cfm

-Write the first ten multiples of 1-25.

-Work on Accelerated Math.

-Study how to divide with compatible numbers.  Test on Thursday.

-Make a list about what a scientist does by copying page xviii, and write what you think each one means.

View these websites:

http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio/handbook/scientificmethod.html

http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/text/educators/tools/pbl/scientific_method.html

http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/text/kids/Research_Rack/tools/scientific_method.html

http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/method.html

Wednesday

-Revise your rough draft on the Word of the Week in the Changing Lives activity book to make it better.

-Write down all assignments in planner, even if they are completed.

-Get your planner signed by your parent/guardian every night.

-Write in the Daily Writing Composition book:  New Peanut Product

George Washington Carver was born on January 5, 1864.  He discovered over 300 uses for the peanut!  Think of a brand-new product that is made from peanuts and write an advertisement describing your new product.

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/carver.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm

-Write rough drafts of an expository essay, a narrative essay, and a descriptive essay for the topic of A Different Kind of Hero.

-Practice manuscript and cursive handwriting.

-Participate in the Book It Program.

-Divide with compatible numbers: 

Pages 204-207 and Workbook page 49

http://www.zeeland.k12.mi.us/creekside/administration/investigators/mmentalmathdivision.html

-Write the first ten multiples of 1-25.

-Work on Accelerated Math.

-Study how to divide with compatible numbers.  Test on Thursday.

-Describe how scientists use the methods of science in their work by reading pages S1-S5.

-Begin looking for an experiment from a NASA site to perform and write a research paper that contains the process skills of the scientific method.  At this time you will only do the experiment (not a demonstration) and write the research paper.  No display project yet.

http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/ 

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjIntro.html

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/paper.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/ug/research/paper.html

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/enose_do1.shtml

http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/Problem_Board/problem_board.html

http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/D_Lab/d_lab.html

-Research paper is due on January 18, 2005.  (At this time, it doesn’t have to be typed.)   You will present your work to the class. http://www.pcboe.net/pcis/quest2/ScientificResearchPaper/index.htm

Thursday

-Proofread your Word of the Week writing to make it flawless.

-Write down all assignments in planner, even if they are completed.

-Get your planner signed by your parent/guardian every night.

-Write in the Daily Writing Composition book:  Wanted!

January’s birthstone is a red gem known as a garnet.  Imagine that a burglar has stolen the world’s largest garnet from a national museum.  Write a Wanted poster to help catch this cunning criminal!

-Write rough drafts of an expository essay, a narrative essay, and a descriptive essay for the topic of A Different Kind of Hero.

-Practice manuscript and cursive handwriting.

-Participate in the Book It Program.

-Solve problems from the Spiral Review and Test Prep transparency and the Problem of the Day.

-Demonstrate knowledge of dividing with compatible numbers on Mastery Test 1.

(Second mastery test on Friday, if necessary.)

-Write the first ten multiples of 1-25.

-Work on Accelerated Math.

-Copy the chart on page S6, and write a paragraph explaining the chart.

-Keep looking for an experiment from a NASA site to perform and write a research paper that contains the process skills of the scientific method.  At this time you will only do the experiment (not a demonstration) and write the research paper.  No display project yet.

-Research paper is due on January 18, 2005.  (At this time, it doesn’t have to be typed.)   You will present your work to the class. http://www.pcboe.net/pcis/quest2/ScientificResearchPaper/index.htm

Friday

-Publish your final copy in the Changing Lives activity book.

(Activities from Changing Lives are given grades in Language as “Other Averages.”)

-Write down all assignments in planner, even if they are completed.

-Get your planner signed by your parent/guardian every night.

-Work on Proofreading sheet for January 1-7.

-Report cards go home.

-Write in the Daily Writing Composition book:  Looking Back

Today marks the end of the first week of the new year.  Look back on the past seven days and write a paragraph describing one thing that you’d do differently, and another thing that you’d do just the same.

-Write a final copy draft of one of the essays for “A Different Kind of Hero.”

-Share your writings with the class.

-Practice manuscript and cursive handwriting.

-Participate in the Book It Program.

-Solve problems from the Spiral Review and Test Prep transparency and the Problem of the Day.

-Write the first ten multiples of 1-25.

-Work on Accelerated Math.

 -Demonstrate knowledge of dividing with compatible numbers on Mastery Test 2.

Consider visiting these sites:

-www.aaamath.com

-http://www.SFSuccessnet.com

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th.htm

-Compare your meanings to the meanings on page S7.

-Read the safety tips on page S8.

-Begin working on an experiment from a NASA site to perform and write a research paper that contains the process skills of the scientific method.  At this time you will only do the experiment (not a demonstration) and write the research paper.  No display project yet.

-Research paper is due on January 18, 2005.  (At this time, it doesn’t have to be typed.)   You will present your work to the class. http://www.pcboe.net/pcis/quest2/ScientificResearchPaper/index.htm