Your homework for tonight is:
1) Mathematics: Handout on adding fractions with unlike denominators
2) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write the dictionary definition of our spelling words.
3) Vocabulary: Write the dictionary definitions of our vocabulary words for the week: abduct, refuse, swipe, manipulate

thumb new blue plump grew flue brush chew due stuck few glue junk flew true trunk knew stew blew dew crew

setting hiking reading cutting moving adding stopping living spelling begging coming floating grinning having feeling jogging taking talking humming fixing working

Have a good three day weekend!  Don't forget to brush your teeth!

Here's a list of videos from YouTube that might help explain what we're going over in math:
Factoring
Prime Factorization
Simplifying Fractions

Your homework for tonight is:
1) Mathematics: Handout on simplifying
2) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, write a sentence for each of our vocabulary words.

1) Mathematics: Complete packet on prime factorization & GCF
2) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, think of an association for each of our vocabulary words and explain why they are associated with that word.

When writing your association, use the sentence frame: 

I associate _____________ with the word _______________ because _________________. 

For example: I associate hamburgers with the word delicious because I love hamburgers and think they are delicious!

Your homework for tonight is:
1) Mathematics: Handout on fractions: Finding the GCF
2) Vocabulary words: In your word study notebook, write the dictionary definitions of our spelling words: irk, pulverize, pounce, frantic

Upcoming important dates:
March 28: No School
March 29: Spring Dance - hosted by 8th grade in the Hall of Heroes
April 1: End of Third Quarter
April 17: Honor Roll Assembly at 1:30 p.m.
              Report Card Pickup: 3:00 - 6:00 (No Aftercare)
April 18 - 25: Spring Break
April 27: Family Mass
April 28: Classes Resume
May 1: Warm uniform begins
May 2: Kindergarten Ice Cream Social
May 12: Progress Reports
May 14: Kindergarten & 8th Grade Ribbon Pinning Ceremony
May 23: No school
May 26: No school

Our poem for next week is Ken Nesbitt's first ever poem from 1994:

Scrawny Tawny Skinner

By Ken Nesbitt

Scrawny little Tawny Skinner
could not, would not, eat her dinner.
Though her parents begged and pleaded,
Tawny would not sit and eat it.

They tried forcing, they tried coaxing;
Tawny said “I feel like chokesing!
I’m so full, my stomach hurts.
I think I should eat dessert!”

She would not eat lima beans;
she would not eat spinach greens.
She would not eat baby peas;
she would not eat cottage cheese.

Pushing food around her plate,
she said, “Look how much I ate!”
But no scrap of food got in her,
Tawny would not eat her dinner.

She would not eat mashed potatoes,
Brussels sprouts or sliced tomatoes.
She would not eat chicken legs,
hot roast beef or deviled eggs.

Tawny closed her mouth up tight,
and would not eat a single bite.
Every minute she grew thinner,
Scrawny little Tawny Skinner.

She would not eat pizza pie;
no baked beans, not one french fry.
Though she was quite thin and bony,
she would not eat macaroni!

What came next, I hate to repeat,
could happen to you if you don’t eat.
Just what all her family feared–
she grew so thin she disappeared.

And though she was hungry an hour later,
they could not find her to reinflate her.
So next time you don’t want your dinner
think of scrawny Tawny Skinner.

Your homework for tonight is:

1) Mathematics: Handout on adding fractions with unlike denominators.
2) Spelling: Sort your words and glue/paste them into your word study notebook.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, draw an image to illustrate the meaning of each of our vocabulary words.

Reminder: Tomorrow is nacho day.  I will be downtown for professional development and will not be able to have after school tutoring.

Reminder 2: Friday is our trip to the KROC center - be sure to bring your swim suits & towels!

Your homework for tonight is:

1) Mathematics: Handout on adding fractions with unlike denominators. The link to the video by Mr. Salamander can be found here (you have to scroll down a bit to find it).
2) Spelling: Sort your words three times and record the PR in your word study notebook.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, write a sentence for each of our vocabulary words.

1) Mathematics: Handout on adding fractions with unlike denominators.
2) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write either 8 sentences using 8 words or 4 sentences using 8 words.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, think of an association for each of our vocabulary words and explain why they are associated with that word.

When writing your association, use the sentence frame: 

I associate _____________ with the word _______________ because _________________. 

For example: I associate hamburgers with the word delicious because I love hamburgers and think they are delicious!

Note: Thursday I will be downtown for professional development and as a result I will not be able to have tutoring after school.

Your homework for tonight is:

1) Mathematics: Handout on adding fractions with like denominators

2) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write the dictionary definition of our spelling words. 

3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebooks, write the dictionary definitions for our vocabulary words: notorious, incentive, persuade, prevent

Group 1 long froze coal show whose stock globe coach blow wrote roast slow close oat grow loaf flow roam throw row snow mow know

Group 2 get getting swim swimming run running sit sitting shut shutting ask asking yell yelling rest resting stand standing pass passing jump jumping pick picking

Reminder: We have Family Mass this weekend!

Our poem for next week is:

Mr. Yes and Mr. No

Kenn Nesbitt

Mr. Yes and Mr. No

could not decide which way to go.

They walked all day. They walked all night.

They first turned left, and then turned right.

They ran along a railroad track

then turned around and came right back.

They wandered in and out of town.

They hiked up hills and stumbled down.

They strolled in straight lines, circles, squares.

They climbed up ladders, stomped down stairs,

but everywhere they ever went

they wound up there by accident

because the two could not agree

on where to go or what to see.

We don't know where they are today.

They've wandered off and gone astray.

And no one has the slightest guess

where Mr. No and Mr. Yes

have ended up and might be found;

perhaps upstairs or underground,

or in a cab, or overseas,

or on the shores of Lake Louise,

or paddling up the Amazon.

That is to say, they're simply gone.

But if they do turn up one day

I think it might be best if they

decided not to rove and roam,

like Mr. Maybe.

He's at home.

Tomorrow we will have a quiz on Fractions:
- Divide & Check - put answers as a mixed number
- Find the Least Common Denominator of two fractions
- Comparing fractions

We will also have another map quiz on the first 14 countries of Africa we had on Wednesday.  If you received 13/14 or more, you do not have to take this quiz.

Your homework for tonight is:

1) Mathematics: Handout on comparing fractional numbers
2) Spelling: Sort your words and glue/paste them into your word study notebook.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, draw an image to illustrate the meaning of each of our vocabulary words.

Your homework for tonight is:

1) Mathematics: Handout on Least Common Denominator
2) Spelling: Sort your words three times and record the PR in your word study notebook.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, write a sentence for each of our vocabulary words.

Note: Tutoring tomorrow is cancelled due to a meeting, however, I will be here on Thursday!

Reminder: Tomorrow is our first map quiz.  You will receive a blank map, just like the one you studied with, and will be asked to fill out the first fourteen countries.

1) Mathematics: Handout on fractions
2) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write either 8 sentences using 8 words or 4 sentences using 8 words.
3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, think of an association for each of our vocabulary words and explain why they are associated with that word.

When writing your association, use the sentence frame: 

I associate _____________ with the word _______________ because _________________. 

For example: I associate hamburgers with the word delicious because I love hamburgers and think they are delicious!

1) Math: Complete handout on equivalent fractions.

2) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write the dictionary definition of our spelling words. 

3) Vocabulary: In your word study notebooks, write the dictionary definitions for our vocabulary words: examine, pluck, possess, gracious

Group 1: AH, JJ, ZM, SR, DR, DW, AW chief wrap smell whine fruit twig sharp theme brief when thank brave scout plot front scale groan clog climb phone stain quit trust quit

Group 2: AB, TC, IC, MF, MM, KN, PP glass trade nail day stand brave grain stay past slave aid play shape raise clay taste gain tray may gray pray say