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Weekly Home Fun for the Week of 5/15/2017Reading Unit: Biography Book Clubs Writing Unit: Biography Information Writing
Parent Corner:● Parent Conferences are this Wednesday, May 17th from 4:30- 7:30. This is not a report
card conference but I will update you on your child’s progress towards promotion to fourth grade.
● The Art Fair will be open during parent conferences on Wednesday. Please stop in to see your child’s artwork.
● The Cinco De Mayo celebration will belatedly take place this Friday, May 19th.● Reminder: Our trip to the Liberty Science Center is on Monday. The bus leaves before
school begins. Please make sure your child arrives to school by 7:30.
Monday
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!!
Be sure to stop and jot about “What the character wants”, and “Why it was hard to get”.
Writing Work on drafting a new chapter in your biographical piece (or revising one you already wrote). Narrative nonfiction writers elaborate by adding numbers, descriptions, facts, definitions, questions or ideas. As you write or revise, look to make your writing more detailed by adding some of those things. Use the checklist below to make sure you are at a level 3 in elaboration and set a goal to move to a
level 4.
Math Problem Solving
Use the steps of SOLVE to complete the following problem.
Ben has a rectangular area 9 meters long and 6 meters wide. He wants a fence that will go around it as well as grass sod to cover it. How many meters of fence will he need? How many square meters of grass sod will he need to cover the entire area?
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Show your work two ways
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____________________________________________________________________.Content Read the Time for Kids article titled, “Under the Sea.” Orient to the text and make a
prediction about what you will read about. Read one time with your pencil down to get the gist. This text is divided into three parts by headings. After reading each part, jot in the margin about what that part was about.
Ask yourself, “What is the story’s main idea? How does this section support the main idea?”
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!
In your reading notebook stop and jot about the setting and how the time and place contributes to the story.
Writing Narrative nonfiction writers make sure their biographies contain both facts and ideas. Your writing should not sound like a list of facts. Tonight, write a new chapter or revise an old one. As you do, self-assess: Is every sentence a fact or do you have a mix of facts and ideas?
Ex. Ruby Bridges is an inspirational person. (This is the idea) For example, Ruby overcame her challenges including poverty, segregation, and racism. (fact)
Math Module 7 Lesson 8 Homework Problem Set
Content Skim back over “Under the Sea” to remind yourself what the text was about. Why do you think the author began the story with kids on a snorkeling trip? Was this an effective way to start the story? Why or why not? Support your ideas with text evidence.
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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!
In your reader’s notebook stop and jot about the obstacles or conflicts and the characters response to them.
Writing Re-read all of the chapters you have written so far. Use the following items as a
checklist to use when re-reading:
● Cross out any details that aren’t important to the chapter.● Look at the sequence of your chapters. Would they make better sense in a
different order? If so, write a number at the top of the page (ex. 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
● Add in transition words (before, after, then, later, however, but, for example, for instance).
● Check your organization. Is each part mostly about one thing connected to your person?
Math Module 7 Lesson 9 Homework Problem Set
Content In section two of “Under the Sea” why do you think Sylvia Earle calls the oceans “the blue heart of the planet?” Use at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
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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!
In your reading notebook stop and jot about how your character has changed so far and what has caused these changes.
Writing Writers fill their writing with important facts by leaving the page and using research tools in search of the perfect fact or the perfect example. Look for places in your biography where you still need more specific facts. Try to find that missing
information by:● asking an adult● researching your person on the internet● reading a book about your person● looking at a map of where they lived
Remember that writers NEVER copy a research source word for word. Put the fact into your own words.
Math Module 7 Lesson 10 Homework Problem Set
Content How does the paragraph in section two that begins, “It wasn’t always that way…” help explain what caused Earle to start Mission Blue in the previous paragraph? Use details from both paragraphs to support your answer.
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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 life lesson has your character has learned? HOw do you know? Stop and Jot
Writing Look at the Lead section of the grade 3 and 4 checklist. Check that you have written a level 3 introduction. If so, look at the level 4 and see what you could do to make your introduction a level 4. For example, you can write why the subject mattered:
Ruby Bridges reminds us to accept challenges and to never teach racism to children when she said, “Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.” Revise your introduction to make it the best it can be.
Math Module 7 Lesson 12 Homework Problem Set
Science Closely read the article Miss Johnsons Plant Experiment. Then answer questions 1-8.
1. Orient to the text and predict what you expect to read about.2. Draw chunking lines to separate different parts.3. Read once with your pencil down to get the gist. When you get to a
chunking line, stop and monitor for meaning. If you didn’t understand the last part, go back and re-read.
4. When you’ve read and understood the text, write down your 2nd read lens.5. Go back and read with your second read lens, annotating your ideas and
what seems important.6. Answer the questions using text evidence.
