Social Studies

Settling North America: The Virginia and Plymouth Colonies

As Europe continues to settle North America we start to see who succeeds and who doesn't.

Read about the mystery of Roanoke Island. What do you think really happened? (Scholastic Reader or Pages152-153 in your textbook)

Pocahontas: Friend or Foe? Read pages 154-157 about the interactions between the Powhatan tribe and the Jamestown settlers. Write a narrative about the interactions between the two. (Your narrative can be in a play/skit format with main characters or a 1 page story that is a snapshot of what one day was like from the perspective of one of the main characters.) If you can, compare and contrast what you have written to the Disney movie. (Think about how we have used media like a movie to entertain and educate.)

Read in your text about the Mayflower Compact that can be found between pages 158-160. Tell me what similarities the compact has to rules and laws of today. What parts do you agree with? What would you change if you were there?

****If you need copies of these pages please let me know and I can get a digital copy to you.****

Math: Chapter 9

***As we continue on this journey of learning from home we will not be covering all lessons in the textbook. Please be mindful of what is being put on here.***

Monday:

Lesson 9.2: Ordered Pairs

Textbook pages: 373-376 are great practice that can help you. Videos are posted on the Math tab to align with this lesson and follow the problems on these pages.

Practice book pages: 185-186 all will continue to reinforce understanding ordered pairs.

Tuesday:

Reteach lesson 9.2 if you struggled with homework.

Challenge lesson 9.2 if you mastered homework.

Battleship to have fun with the concepts learned in lesson 9.2.

To play you will need:

• Two copies of the document.
• Two crayons (preferably red and blue).
• Two players that understand ordered pairs.

Wednesday:

Lesson 9.3 Graph Data

Textbook pages: 377- 380 are great practice that can help you. Videos are posted on the Math tab to align with this lesson and follow the problems on these pages. The main video I will post will show the experiment on page 377.

If you can't complete the experiment on page 377 then use the following numbers:

seconds/ temp

• 0/70
• 10/65
• 20/60
• 30/55
• 40/53
• 50/52
• 60/50

Practice book pages: 187-188 all will continue to reinforce understanding ordered pairs.

Thursday:

Reteach lesson 9.3 if your struggled with homework.

Challenge lesson 9.3 if you mastered homework.

Friday:

Search out the following coordinates to see what Iowa county I am looking for. Use your Iowa map or this digital copy.

Write down the County seat, the name of the County, and what direction is it from Des Moines.

(E, 4) and it starts with a G.

(H, 2) and it starts with a W.

(K, 6) and it starts with an F.

(E, 6) and it starts with a P.

Use the "have a question" form on the home page to submit ordered pairs for someone else to find a county.

Please feel free to use this day to get caught up any other work or enjoy a day with family.

5W Reading: Unit 6 week 4

Monday:

Introduce vocabulary:

plantations urged landscape influence

glistening export native restore

Use this list to find the definitions of each word. Then write a sentence for each of the vocabulary words that shows your understanding of the meaning.

Respond to essential question: What impact do our actions have on our world?

Begin new spelling list (*Both lists have similar words and focus on the same pattern. Typically 15 or more words are the exact same.):

Blue Group (grade level expectation)

Green Group (provides a slight challenge by adding inflectional endings and other slight variations)

Grammar: Combining sentences pg.141

Packet can be found here.

Tuesday:

Read "Words to Save the World".

Also, answer the questions at the bottom of the last page in the story, page 427 .

Spelling: Practice spelling by creating the sentences that you plan to use on your test. Look up the words in the dictionary if needed and have a family member check the grammar.

Wednesday:

Read "The Father of Earth Day" for fluency practice. Read for 1 minute and record how many words you read. Finish the story and answer the comprehension questions. Time yourself again for 1 minute and see if you improve on your reading.

Grammar: Commas and colons. pg. 143

Vocabulary: Make sure you are reviewing your vocabulary to prepare for the quiz included in the Selection quiz.

Thursday:

Read "Planting the Trees of Kenya" in your large Wonders book. Complete the selection quiz which also includes vocabulary.

Spelling: Practice as you typically would. If you need a challenge, put them into alphabetical order without looking at your list. Games and alternative activities can be found on Spelling City or the Wonders website.

Friday:

Send Mrs. Weber a message about what independent books you have been reading while at home. Do you like it? Have you read it before? What are the main characters up to? What predictions do you have about what's happening? Use this link to begin filling out a story structure if you'd like.

They have opened the link to AR to be available at home. If you would like to take a quiz on what you are reading please use this link. This is optional.

Spelling:Take spelling test that includes 3-5 sentences using a minimum of 5 spelling words.

Grammar:Quiz pg. 145

Writing prompts

• Imagine that you are flying a kite when suddenly you are lifted up and start soaring with the kite. Write about what happens next.
• Would you rather be an ant at a picnic or a bee in a flower garden? Explain.
• The zipper was patented on April 29,, 1913. Imagine that you are camping in the woods with a friend. As you try to get out of the tent in the morning, you realize that the zipper is stuck. Write about what happens next?
• April 30 is National Honesty Day. Do you think that there is ever a time when it is okay to be dishonest?
• Pretend you are a bird. Write the steps for building the perfect nest.

Bonus poetry: April is National Poetry Month. Try writing a poem using the prompt below.

They always say April showers bring May flowers. Write a Haiku poem about the perfect spring thunderstorm. The rules for Haiku are below.

*"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme.

**Concrete poetry—sometimes also called 'shape poetry'—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. The words form shapes which illustrate the poem's subject as a picture, as well as through their literal meaning.

***Acrostic poems are where you write the word vertically down one side of your paper and each letter in that word becomes the first letter in each line.

****Remember, not all poetry rhymes. Lyric poems don't and are often related to nature. Look back to Unit 4 Week 5 in Wonders to see some examples of lyric poetry.

*****Poetry is filled with descriptive words and figurative language, like similes, metaphors, alliterations, and onomatopoeias (bang!, pow!, boom!).