Reading/Spelling/Language

ELA Homework:  Daily Common Core Practice Week 2.2 

Reading Skills: Words in Context

Language Skills: Simple / Compound Sentences; Conjunctions

Vocabulary: Context Clues

Writing: We will be working on restating the question, answering the question, citing evidence, and explain/sum it up.

Spelling: 

• shape
• church
• watch
• father
• wrap
• check
• finish
• sharp
• mother
• write
• catch
• chase
• shall
• thick
• wrote

Math and Science

Math Skills: 

Irregular shapes using distributive property

Math Homework:

Tuesday - Thursday night - Review sheet on weekly skill and study multiplication facts. Homework should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Multiplication Facts:

Please study daily with your student.  We will practice each day in class Monday – Wednesday and take a practice test every Thursday or Friday.  They will have a timed test for a daily grade every 3 weeks on the facts we have learned. MULTIPLICATION FACTS MUST BE MEMORIZED! Practice and graded multiplication tests are timed.  Students must be able to recite all multiplication facts (0 – 12s) fluently by the end of the year.  Students will be given 3 seconds per problem.

8x0=0   8x1=8   8x2=16   8x3=24   8x4=32   8x=5=40   8x6=48   8x7=56  8x8=64   8x9=72   8x10=80   8x11=88   8x12=96

Science Skills: 

Forces

Vocabulary:

• force - a push or pull
• gravity - force of attractions between objects
• magnet - piece of metal that attracts objects made of iron
• friction - surfaces rubbing together cause heat
• attract - cause objects to be pulled closer
• repel - cause objects to move away
• nonmagnetic - objects will not stick to a magnet
• mass - the stuff that makes up all things in the universe
• compass - a tool with a magnet that points toward Earth's North Pole