Weekly Times October 7, 2011

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Language Arts
Spelling – verb endings -ed and -ing - doubling consonants to keep the vowel sound short, droppping the -e at the end of words before adding -ed or -ing, dropping the -y and adding i when adding -ed to words that have a consonant before the -y
Writing – favorite activity paragraphs
Reading- reading about the rock cycle
Read alouds: The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, Magic School Bus Voyage to the Volcano

Be sure to check out the videos of the students giving their Me Bag essays - they can be found on the page above (will finish adding the last few next week)


Maths
Word Problems

Measures - meters, centimeters, millimeters
Perimeter and Area of squares and rectangles, in cm and cm2, counting the squares to find area (not yet multiplying the length times height)

Plotting points on a grid- the game Billy Bug -always going across the x axis, then up the y axis

Triangles - isosceles, equilateral and right triangles
Next week: Review of the concepts and assessment

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Vocabulary - verbs

Plate tectonics - the Earth separated into plates that move slowly and cancause earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes among other things

Three main types of rocks - igneous, metamorphicand sedimentary and how they are formed

Making volcanoes
Next week: the rock cycle

Fun song about the layers of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Q9j1xGaxYzY&gl=US

Volcano Recipe Links: (I am sure there are more out there but these are the ones I took from)

http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/make-a-volcano.html
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php