April 24th & 27th

Days 15 & 16 (4/24 & 4/27)
Common Core Standards

English Language Arts/Reading

1. Listen to Chapter 15 of “George’s Marvelous Medicine” by Roald Dahl (to the right or below)

Click here for a copy of the book to follow along

2. Read/Listen to the Paired Texts (Click "Text-to-Speech" to have it read to you):

- “Attack from Outer Space” and “Planet Protectors”

3. Complete worksheet titled: “Words to Know”

4. Complete worksheet titled: “Space Rock Solutions” (see below)

Writing

1. "Should You Invite Everyone to Your Birthday Party?"

- Have someone read your work and have them help edit your paper

- Make the changes that they said to make

- The "Opinion Writing Toolkit" will help you write your essay (see below)

Extra Credit:

- “Up close - Synthesizing” (see below)

Extra Resources:

This fun video will help you understand the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.

- Video: "Space Rocks"

Would you like to see a meteor shower? Here is this mesmerizing footage from the 2019 Perseid meteor shower.

- Perseid Meteor Shower

Meet scientist Don Yeomans. Here are his “Top Ten Asteroid Factoids”. You'll will be amazed!

- "Top Ten Asteroid Factoids"

Learn about the asteroid that most likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago in this short video.

- "A Single Asteroid..."