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Standard: compares works
of literature to each other
High Frequency Words
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until, children, side, feet, car,
mile, night, walk, white, sea
Monday:
D Spelling: page 95
D Math: Ice Runner
D Reading: Read Out
Loud activity
D Read for 20 minutes
Tuesday:
D Spelling: page 96
D Math: One by One (÷1)
Reading: One minute
fluency reading test
and practice HFWs
EJ Read for 20 minutes
Wednesday:
C Spelling: page 97
C Math: Comparing
Area & Perimeter
w/parent pg. 71-72
C Reading: One minute
fluency reading test
and word search
C Read for 20 minutes
Thursday:
C Spelling: Practice test,
including dictation and
parent signature.
C Math: Drawing Figures
to Scale w/parent pg.
73-74
C Reading: One minute
fluency reading test
and practice HFWs
C Read for 20 minutes
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Nature Tales
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Ask your child to tell you about som
Look for these additional
young girl celebrates in the poem.
:
nature books in your local library
Steck-Vaughn, 1997.
• Deserts by Neil Morris. Raintree
Game. Harcourt Brace, 1999.
• By the Blazing Blue Sea by S.T.
Scribner’s, 198 I.
• Desert Voices by Byrd Baylor.
AT THE LIBRARY
Vocabulary Lookout
Lets Celebrate
Talk with your child about
some of the special days
that are celebrated in your
home and in your commu
nity. If possible, take your
child to a community cele
bration and talk about
what is being celebrated
and why. Then invite your
child to ask family mem
bers and friends about the
ways they like to celebrate
their special days and to
note the ways the celebra
tions are similar and differ
ent. Encourage your child
to write what she or he
has learned in a notebook.
abulary your child has
The following words are new voc
of Celebrations”:
learned while reading “I’m in Charge
signal
celebrations
tracks
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many times as possible
each day of the week and use it as
number of times your child
throughout that day. Record the
uses each word correctly.
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TIME TO READ Encourage your chil
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30 minutes outside of class each day
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words. Then write the correct spellings
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Skill: Comparing Area & Perimeter, Part 2
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Dear Families,
This homework assignment asks you and your child to compare area and perimeter.
Help your child make six figures—one square and five rectangles each with a
perimeter of 24 squares. (Remember the perimeter is the distance around the
outside of a figure.)
This page is designed to provide your child with a review of many concepts. Help
your child with the project, but try to have her or him see how to do it independently.
Part 2 of this project is for your child to see that the area of a shape might change,
even though the perimeter may remain constant. Be sure to take a good look at the
completed chart and make those kinds of comparisons with your child.
Sample Problem
we did
thisjn
On this grid, make a
class.
rectangle that is 8 squares
long and 4 squares wide.
What is the perimeter of this square?
What is the area of this square?
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on which you will draw one square and five rectangles that have a
perimeter of 24 squares. Label each figure A, B, C, D, E, and F. Next,
color each figure a different color. Then, complete the chart below.
[‘rimeter is the distance around the outside of a figure.
Area is the space inside the figure.
Color
Length
Width
Perimeter
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We completed this assignment together.
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SkiN: Drawing Figures to Scale
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Dear Families,
Drawing figures to scale is a new concept for most elementary
students, so this activity
is designed to introduce them to this concept at its most basic
level. Be sure your
child knows why we draw things to scale—because we cann
ot always draw the
pictures of objects in their actual size. Children may not realize
that they have been
drawing to scale since they first held a crayon and drew a
house—one that fit on
the page and only represented a real building.
On the student page there are four instances in which your
child is asked to create
a scale drawing. The figures will be 1, 2, or 3 inches across,
but they are intended
to represent much lar9er figures. The questions about perimeter
refer to the numbers
that are on the figure—not the actual inches that the child
just drew—and the
perimeter of the figure of the fictional character.
Sample Problem
thisin
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of paper here:
Let’s make a scale drawing
of this sheet of paper. This paper
is 8+ inches wide by 11+ inches
long. To make this easy, let’s round
off the numbers to 8 x 12. Now let
1 inch on your ruler equal 4 inches
on the sheet of paper.
How wide should the rectangle be?
How long should it be?
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es correctly
of a larger object Ask an adult to help you to draw the figur
and answer the question about each one
Draw what you think Torn’s shape
looked like.
I. Toni drew a shape that was 5 inches long
on each side. The box was a square. Use
a ruler and make a square like Torn’s.
Have 1 inch in your drawing equal to 5
inches of Torn’s drawing.
Now write the number 5 on each of the
sides. What is the perimeter of Tom’s
inches.
shape? P =
Draw a rectangle like Kevin’s.
2. Kevin drew a shape that was a rectangle.
Two sides were 10 inches long; two sides
were 5 inches long. Use a ruler. Let 1
inch on the ruler be equal to 5 inches of
Kevin’s shape.
Now write the correct numbers on the
Si(ICS of the shape. What is the perimeter
of Kevin’s shape?
inches.
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3. Cathy drew a shape that was an equilateral
triangle. Each side was 5 inches long. Use
your ruler and make 1 inch equal to 5
inches of Cathy’s triangle.
Now write the correct numeral on
each side.
What is the perlmeter of Cathy’s
inches.
shape? P =
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Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
You’re wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I can’t get enough.
You’re covered with sauce
and you’re sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some more
Spaghetti! Spagheffi!
Piled high in a mound,
you wiggle, you wriggle,
you squiggle around.
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all over my plate,
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I think you are great.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
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Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
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no other mom can beat it;
and every time she cooks it
I can hardly wait to eat it.
I twist the strands around my fork
with wonderful control.
but as I raise them to my mouth
they fall back in the bowl.
I twirl the noodles once again
with all the skill I’m able,
but as I lift them up to eat
they tumble to the table.
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around and round once more;
but as it nears my waiting lips
it slithers to the floor.
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no other mom can beat it;
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Poem #2:
2. What words tell you how they feel about it?
Poem # 1:
Poem #2:
3. What problem does the person in the second poem have?
4. How are the two poems different?
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