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Week of 5/22/2017 Weekly Home FunReading Unit: Biography Book Clubs Writing Unit: Biography Information Writing

Parent Corner:

● The spring concert will be held this Thursday night at 6pm.● There will be no school Monday, May 29 in honor of Memorial Day.● Next Thursday, June 1 is our trip to the Brooklyn Naval Garden. Parents are free to attend.

Monday- Trip to Liberty Science Center

Reading Read independently and uninterrupted for 60 minutes. Make sure you are reading 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction throughout the week. Record in your reading log!!

Stop and jot some ideas you have about the character you are reading about (traits, changes, motivations, lessons). Be sure to back up your ideas with at least two pieces of evidence.

Writing Biography Writers edit by…

● making a new paragraph when a chunk of thought is over● spelling content-specific words and third grade sight words correctly● ending sentences with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark● starting sentences with a capital letter● capitalizing proper nouns (the names of places, people)

Look over your piece tonight and work on editing using the checklist above. Remember that an adult may help you edit but they should not be writing on your draft.

Tuesday

Reading Read independently and uninterrupted for 60 minutes. Make sure you are reading 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction throughout the week. Record in your reading log!!

When reading a biography, think about why the author has written a biography about the person . Then stop and jot what he/she did that made them so important. Use details from the text in your response.

Writing Show all you know about biography informational writing.

1. Look at the third grade checklist that is attached to your homework to review all the good things information writing should have.

2. Set a timer for 45 minutes (or look at a clock and used elapsed time to find what time it will be 45 minutes from now).

3. In your writer’s notebook, write an informational piece that includes everything

from the checklist, and make sure you are done before the 45 minutes are up.4. Have someone read your writing and check off on the checklist how well you did.

Math Kelsey cuts some pipe cleaners into one-inch pieces. Kelsey has twenty pieces. Kelsey wants to glue the one-inch pipe cleaner pieces on a paper so that the pipe cleaner pieces form the shape of a rectangle. Kelsey does not want to bend or cut the one-inch pipe cleaner pieces. Kelsey wants to find all the possible rectangles she can make with the one-inch pipe cleaner pieces before she decides which rectangle to glue on her paper. What are all the possible rectangles Kelsey can choose from to glue on her paper? Show all your mathematical thinking.

❏ I am asked to find _______________________________________________________

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❏ I circled important information and eliminated what is unnecessary.❏ My plan is to _____________________________________________

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❏ Show your work

❏ Explain the steps you took to solve the problem.

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Content Confucius was a man whose ideas became important in Chinese culture. Closely read the article on Confucius. Your fourth grade teachers will expect that when you closely read you:

● Mark the genre● Chunk when the subtopic shifts● Annotate● Code

Wednesday

Reading Read independently and uninterrupted for 60 minutes. Make sure you are reading 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction throughout the week. Record in your reading log!!

Stop and jot about the big challenge or conflict the character faces in the biography you are reading.

Writing Continue the work you were doing on your biography piece in class. Use the Grade ¾ checklist to give you ideas for things you can do to revise and edit. Record at least two things you worked on in your piece below.

Tonight I worked on the following things in my writing piece.

1. __________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________

Math 1. Practice your flashcards, depending on what level of fact masters you are on.2. Lesson 13 problem set. Remember that you find perimeter by adding the lengths of

all sides.

Content Re-read your annotations about Confucius. Then respond to the following question in your reader’s notebook using evidence from the text:

What caused Confucius to want to get a position of influence? Use details from the text to support your answer.

Thursday

Reading Read independently and uninterrupted for 60 minutes. Make sure you are reading 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction throughout the week. Record in your reading log!

What lessons does the character learn while facing obstacles to achieve their goal? Stop and jot.

Writing Continue the work you were doing on your biography piece in class. Use the Grade ¾ checklist to give you ideas for things you can do to revise and edit. Record at least two things you worked on in your piece below.

Tonight I worked on the following things in my writing piece.

3. __________________________________________________________________

4. __________________________________________________________________

Math 1. Practice your flashcards, depending on what level of fact masters you are on.2. Complete quadrilaterials word problems page 1. Use your geometry vocab chart or

KEMS book page S278 as tools if you get stuck.

Content The following are some of Confucius’s sayings:

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Choose two of these sayings and explain what Confucius really means by the saying. You can give an example from real life to help you explain.

Example

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

This means that people may do bad things to you, must it only becomes really bad if you keep remembering and bringing up what they did. For example, if someone says something mean to me I may be upset for a second but then I should let it go. It’ll only become something bigger in my life if I keep bring it up and mentioning what they said.

Friday

Reading Read independently and uninterrupted for 60 minutes. Make sure you are reading 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction throughout the week. Record in your reading log! What is the most important thing the character has done and why? Stop and jot

Writing Free write! This long weekend set a timer for 40 minutes and spend the whole 40 minutes writing without interruption. You can choose the genre but your writing must fill at least a page and a half. You may choose to write more than one genre during this time. Here are some possible genres to write:

❏ Poetry (not roses are red, violets are blue)❏ Story about a memory❏ Fiction story❏ Informational book❏ Persuasive essay❏ Literary Essay❏ Or anything else you think to write about

Math 3. Practice your flashcards, depending on what level of fact masters you are on.4. Complete quadrilaterials word problems page 2.

Science Closely read the book Air Plants. Your text should show that you marked the genre, chunked, and annotated. As you read think about the main idea of each section. Stop and summarize each part to help you accumulate the text.

How do some plants live without soil?Write a description of the epiphyte plant to someone who has never heard of one. Explain how the plant gets the nutrients it needs. Use details from the text to support your answer.

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