Homework 11/1/12

Due:  November 7, 2012

Goal:  Write a goal that supports your learning this week.

Goal Evaluation:  Write a sentence or two explaining how you did on your goal.

Spelling:

 A compound word is 2 smaller words joined together.

football             sunglasses

homework        snowstorm

haircut              earring

popcorn            scarecrow

railroad              blueberry

Challenge

thumbtack

earthquake

scrapbook

courthouse

whirlpool

Create a game in your journal (not in the border).   Split the spelling words in half, but mix up the order….you will give your journal to someone in the class who will draw lines to connect the words.

Math

The table below shows the results of another class’s probability experiment.

They pulled from a collection of 20 markers a total of 40 times.

Red	Green	Blue	Yellow

Based on this data, what do you think is the breakdown of the tiles in the bag.  How many of each color do your predict there are.  Explain your thinking.

Reading:

Reading helps us explore our world.  In fact, we have started talking about TEXT-TO-WORLD connections.  Have your child read something other than a book; a newspaper article, magazine article, or a website.  Have them think about the 5 Ws of the article….

Who         What           When            Where              Why

Writing: 

 We’ve talked about how to start a story….now, as writers, we need to work on how to move  a reader THROUGH a story.  We do this with using transition words.  Transition words can show the passage of time, or connect ideas together.

Try writing a paragraph that uses the transition words below…..can there be too many transition words?

        before     during     finally