Homework for the week of 15 - 19 March

Homework: Puzzle of the Week: Use tangrams. (provided) If the small triangle has an area of 1 unit, make a figure with the pieces that has an area of 9 units. If the medium triangle has an area of 1 unit, make a figure that has an area of 3 1/2 units. Make up a problem using the square, if it equals 1 unit. Make up a problem using the parallelogram, if it equals 1 unit. Answer the questions regarding how you solved the puzzle. Guidelines for Writing about the Puzzle of the Week 1.What is the puzzle about? Restate the situation in your own words. Check your writing: What are you trying to find out? Did you give enough information for someone else to be able to solve the puzzle? 2.What are your first impressions of this puzzle? How do you think you will solve it? Check your writing: What strategies do you think you will use? Might you draw a picture, act it out, make a table, chart, or list, use objects, or use some other way? Does this puzzle remind you of other puzzles? 3. Describe how you solved the puzzle. Explain your method. Check your writing: How did you start? What did you try that didn’t work? Did you learn n anything from those tries? What did you do when you got stuck? Did someone help you with this puzzle? Were they helpful or not? What steps did you use to find you your solution? Be specific so others could try your strategy. 4. How do you know your answer is right? Check your writing: How would you prove your solution is right if someone disagrees with you? Could there be more than one correct solution? Vocabulary: Homework: Please put the list in alphabetical order. Use odd numbered words in a sentence and find the definition of even numbered words. (Hint: Use your Social Studies Alive! book to help find definitions) geography scale map key coastal plain inland plateau basin diverse immigrant peak revolution canal lock (use meaning associated with chapter 4 of Social Studies book) mass production Constitution skyscrapers

February 22-26 Homework

Homework for this week is as follows: Vocabulary-Last CSAP list! Yippee! Choose 15 words from your list to use in complete, well-written sentences. Study all list words for Friday's test. You should know all words and definitions. 1. square 2. square number 3. square unit 4. standard form 5. standard units of measure 6. strategy 7. subtraction 8. sum 9. summary 10. survey 11. symmetry 12. table 13. temperature 14. translation 15. triangle 16. turn 17. style 18. suffix 19. summary 20. supporting details 21. symbolism 22. synonyms 23. theme 24. title 25. tone 26. topic sentence 27. transition 28. valid 29. verb 30. voice 31. word web Writing: Students will respond to "The Cheetah and the Sloth" prompt. Writing must include a minimum of three paragraphs. Please make sure you have well defined main idea sentences, with supporting details. Prompt: The cheetah is the world's fastest land mammal. It can reach speeds of 65 miles per hour. The world's slowest land mammal is the sloth, which moves along at just 0.07 miles per hour. That means it would take a sloth 15 minutes just to cross the street. Write a story about a race between a cheetah and a sloth, a kind of wacky version of the old fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare". Here's the twist: Use your imagination to dream up a way for the sloth to win. Math: Practice sheets on weight, volume, and decimal fractions. Also look over green study sheet for Unit7 test on Friday. Read nightly for a minimum of 20 minutes. Project Due Dates: Poetry Books due-2/24/2010 Night of the Notables written project due-2/24/2010 Ms. Okimoto's Reading Groups: independent & novel study book projects due 2/25/2010 Night of the Notables Event-Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5 -7 pm, Edison Auditorium

Homework February 17-19

Due to the fact that students have multiple projects due next week and the brevity of the week, there will be limited homework this week. Students received a math packet today, that is due on Monday, February 22, 2010. I have the following expectations for the packet: all work is shown, no calculators or parent assistance on computation, and no reprints or late work. Problem areas for the students seem to be multiplying double and triple digit factors, locating ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and finding common denominators. All included work is review work, and students should ask questions if necessary. Early submission is encouraged. Thanks. REMINDER: POETRY BOOKS & NIGHT OF THE NOTABLES PROJECTS DUE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH BOOK PROJECTS FOR MRS. RIGSBY'S READERS DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND BOOK PROJECTS FOR MS. OKIMOTO'S READERS DUE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH

Homework: February 8-February 12

Homework for this week includes the following: Math: Decimal worksheet, and probability activity(will be sent home on Wednesday) Writing: Respond to the following prompt: Strength or Speed? In 1996, a Belgian man named Walter Arfeuille moved an eight car train weighing nearly 500,000 pounds. He was able to pull it more than ten feet.....using his teeth! Now that's strong! The world record for high speed tap dancing belongs to James Devine from Australia. He can tap his feet 38 times per second. Now that's fast! Which would you rather be, strong or fast? Think about it and then write about which one you chose and why. Make sure your writing is at least 3 paragraphs long, includes descriptive details, and is conventionally perfect! Vocabulary: Choose 15 words from the following list. You may use the words in sentences, or create part two of your picture dictionary, that includes the vocabulary term with a descriptive picture. 1.ordered pair 2. parallelogram 3. parallel lines 4. pattern 5. pentagon 6. perimeter 7. perpendicular lines 8. pictograph 9. place value 10. P.M. 11. point 12. polygon 13. possible event 14. predict 15. prediction 16. probability 17. product 18. pyramid 19. quadrilateral 20. questionaire 21. quotient 22. range 23. rectangle 24. reflection 25. represent 26. remainder 27. rhombus 28. right angle 29. right triangle 30. rounding 31. rule 32. ruler 33. scale 34. sequence 35. set 36. side 37. similar 38. slide 39. solids 40. solve 41. sphere

Homework: February 1-February 5

Writing Prompt: A Bicycle Built for 200 Million The Netherlands is the nation with the most bicycles per capita. It has 16 million of them! That's an average of one bicycle for every citizen, big and small, young and old. Do you think it would be good if people in the United States used bikes and scooters and skateboards more often? What would be the advantages? Would it cut down on pollution? Write about how the US would be different if people depended on transportation other than cars. Write 3 organized paragraphs explaining your position and persuading your audience that your position is best. Make sure to use your best spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Math: Activity 1: Create a pie graph that shows how the campers at Hillindale Summer Community Activities Camp spent their time. Here is their daily schedule: 7:30 breakfast 12:30 community clean-up 8:00 math 1:30 visit museums 9:00 science 2:30 bus travel 10:00 snack 3:00 swimming 10:15 sports 4:15 snack 11:30 lunch 4:30 reading 12:00 bus travel 5:30 end of day Group the activities into the following categories and convert the total time spent in each activity as a percentage of the day. (What is the whole day?) Here are the categories: eating, sports, bus travel, math/reading/science, community clean up, and museums. You may create a pie chart by hand or using the computer. Make sure you label your graph with the categories and percentage amount. Integer Practice: page 18/19 (hand-out) Vocabulary: Choose 15 words from your vocabulary list. You may either use these words in sentences or create a picture dictionary showing and describing the meaning of the word, using pictures and your own words. Vocabulary list: 1. expression 2. face 3. factor 4. fact family 5. figure 6.flip 7. fraction 8. function machine 9. graph 10. grid 11. hexagon 12. impossible event 13. integer 14. intersecting lines 15.justify 16. isosceles triangle 17. key 18. kilometer 19. line 20. line graph 21. line of symmetry 22. liter 23. mass 24. mean 25. median 26. meter 27. method 28. mixed number 29. mode 30. multiple 31. multiplication 32. number line 33. number sentence 34. numerator 35. octagon 36. odd number 37. operation 38. order

Night of the Notables

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Night of the Notables:Guideline Sheet

Night of the Notables Biography Project Guidelines Due Date 2/17/2010 TBD: Date of Culminating Event 1. Select an eminent person for an in-depth biographical study who is in a field that is interesting to you. Think about how this person stands out as a positive change agent, tradition maker, or creative producer. Make sure you want to know this person better! You will be spending considerable time in the next few weeks researching this person! Research this person thoroughly. Use all avenues that are open to you to find out as much as you can. Be inventive in your research. Try to use as many primary sources as possible. Read all you can about your person, books written by him/her, books written about him/her, collective biographies, reference books, magazine articles, newspapers, periodicals, etc. At the same time, take notes. Do not forget to document sources in correct form. Do not plagiarize! Use the internet to gather information. Make sure to take notes and write down sources in correct form. E-mail or write letters to museums and/or peoples’ hometown libraries to obtain information. Do this early in your research. Save copies of all correspondence. View films, TV biography videos, and DVDs to gather facts and view pictures of your subject. Listen to tapes and recordings of your person to hear his/her voice and speech mannerisms. Interview people who know or may have known you person. Use note cards to record information and sources. Visit all the libraries in your area: school, and public libraries. Consider seeking permission to visit a college library also. When your research is complete, choose one of the following written products to do: biographical sketch in either the first or third person voice, or create a biography magazine. (specific guidelines attached) Make a lifeline of your person’s life. Include a few world or national events to help give perspective, along with major points of the person’s life. This lifeline may be done vertically or horizontally. Compose a bio-riddle about your person synthesizing your research on the life of your chosen change agent, tradition breaker, or creative producer. Use this information to provide identity clues. Utilize literary techniques such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, rhyme, rhythm, etc to add effectiveness of your riddle. Find provocative quotations made by your person. Choose one to be included in your presentation for the culminating activity. (Night of the Notables) Answer the questions listed in the role playing sheet (atached) Be able to present this information during the culminating activity. Design or plan a costume for portrayal of your person at the culminating program. Evaluation/Assessment Complete Self-Assessment Complete “Let’s Compare” activity Rubric assessment of bio-riddle; biographical magazine or biographical sketch Do not wait until the last minute to begin this project. Use this guideline sheet to help you plan your strategy for completing this project. If you need assistance in planning, see your teacher!