White's Weekly

This week we are reading the story, So You Want to be the President, on 244-256.  Our comprehension skills are  main idea/supporting details (p. 240-241)/summarizing (p. 240).  The   vocabulary strategies are context clues (p. 90).                      

 Main Idea practice: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/extrainfop2.cfm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html

This week we will be multiplying by two- and three-digit numbers and dividing by one-digit divisors.

Click on this link to practice basic multiplication facts:

http://www.multiplication.com/flashgames/pizzapizzazz.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/flashgames/aquaticspeedway.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/flashgames/Moles.htm

Click on this link to practice multiplying two by two digit numbers:

http://www.prongo.com/math/multiplication.html

This week we are reading the story, Grace and the Time Machine, on 192-209.  Our vocabulary skill is context clues and prefixes. The comprehension strategies are drawing conclusions/ fact & opinion.                        

Plural Noun Rules: 1. If a word ends with a vowel + y, add s to make it plural (turkeys). 2. If a word ends with a consonant + y, change the “y” to “i” before adding -s or –es (countries), 3. If a word ends in “f,” change the “f” to “v” before adding es (loaves). 4. If a word ends with s, ch, sh, x, z, or ss, add –es to make it plural (boxes). 5. Some nouns are irregular and change to a whole new word (tooth-teeth). 6. Some nouns have the same singular and plural form (moose). 7. If no other rule applies, just add –s or –es to make a noun plural.

Spelling: We will be working with words that end with –s or –es. This week’s words are videos, teeth, potatoes, themselves, lives, leaves, cliffs, roofs, halves, moose, radios, sheep, cuffs, beliefs, patios, banjos, tornadoes, tomatoes, hoofs, loaves.

Plural nouns game link: http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html

This week we will work using Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers (p. 62-79). Multiplication/Division (p.88-103).

 Addition of Whole Numbers skills practice:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/number/addition/play.shtml

Grid boxes: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikaadd3res.html

Subtraction of Whole Numbers skills practice:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/number/subtraction/play.shtml

Grid boxes: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Subtraction/urikasub3res.html

Decimal review game:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/number/

Multiplication skills practice:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/number/multiplication/play.shtml

We will continue with Unit F this week. We will finish up energy, then move  to simple machine,  light, heat, and energy

There are six types of simple machines. They are the screw, wedge, lever, pulley, inclined plane, and wheel and axle.

Simple Machines game link:

http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-Machines/

Chemical and Physical Changes game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/rev_irrev_changes.shtml

Light game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/light_shadows/play.shtml

Forces and Motion game:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/forces_movement.shtml

Read pages F8 through F12 in your Science textbook. These pages will help you answer this week’s guided questions:

How do things move? What is speed? How do forces affect motion?

Remember that “speed” is the distance an object moves in a certain amount of time. Click on the link below to see how speed and force work together to move objects.

Force and Friction game:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/forces_action/play.shtml

Map Skills (Directions) game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/reading/deduction/play.shtml

We are beginning a unit on Tennessee. Please discuss lessons 1-3 in Unit 1 with your child at home.

If you would like to research and learn more about the Native American groups, click on the link below:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/DifferentTribes/groups006.htm

If you would like to research and learn about the agriculture  in Tennessee, click on the link below:

http://www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/article_725.shtml

This week’s grammar skills:

Who wants to be a millionaire—-irregular nouns link:

http://www.quia.com/rr/6516.html

Plural Noun Construction link:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c8/nadia.htm

Singular/Plural Nouns–”Grammar Gold” game link:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c8/nadia.htm

Last week, we studied commas in a series, compound sentences, and the parts of a friendly letter over the next week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/punctuation/play.shtml

Series—a group or list of three or more words.

 http://www.compasslearningodyssey.com/sample_act/34lang_confusion.html

Compound sentence- two sentences joined using and, so, or but.

 http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html

Letter parts: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/

Words with -s or -es (Plurals)

http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html-ful

We will be working with plurals this week. 

 Make sure that your child is able to determine which rule is used when making each word plural.

This six week’s we will begin learning about the history of Tennessee. Create a timeline, fact poster, or biographical graphic organizer on one person from Tennessee. Post a comment listed on important fact about the person that you have chosen to read about.  

Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson: The Spoil System

Sam Houston

Sam Houston: Biography & Politics

Sequoyia
Andrew Jackson:  Biography

Sam Houston:  Biography

James Polk:  Biography

Sequoyia:  Biography

David Crockett:  Biography

Nancy Ward:  Biography