Welcome Back!!!!
It's time for another day of Distance Learning! You're doing great!!!
Your Upper Elementary Team
Reading
Today you will read a fiction story about a girl named Veronica. Answer the following questions by restating the question and using correct capitalization and punctuation.
1. What was Veronica's problem at the beginning of the story?
2. In this sentence from the story, "The noise echoed through the forest, breaking the tranquility of the woods." What do you think the word tranquility means?
3. What are some clues that this story is fiction? (not true)
4. Has there been something you have been afraid to do before? Did you conquer your fear?
https://storyworks.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/050119/Veronica-s-Pack.html
Here's today's reading of A Long Walk to Water.
Vocabulary
Continue working on your vocabulary log. Remember to choose one of the following choices.
1. You can make your own vocabulary log with paper. Be sure to include the word, definition, a sentences using your word, and a picture of your word.
2. You can create a document that includes all 10 words to share with me. You can type your word, the definition, a sentence using your word, and you can use clipart for the picture of your word.
Have fun learning the next set of words. We will have a quiz on them in a few weeks.
Today's Word:
bleak- without hope or encouragement, depressing; dreary
Grammar/Writing
See the comment(s) I made on your informational animal writing and adjust your writing accordingly. If you don't see a comment, that might be because you haven't shared your document with me yet, so make sure you do that and I will get to it ASAP. I am going to be taking this for a grade, so please do your best! Let me know if you have any questions.
Spelling
No spelling today! :)
Math
Friday Quiz: https://forms.gle/yxLauAVrG9JNJ9G17
You will also find the quiz link in Google Classroom.
Social Studies:
Continue your research on Ducksters.com, Kidsdiscover.com, and Britannica Kids.
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Research what the person is best known for
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Find 4 Facts about what they are best known for
Bible: Proverbs 8:13
A = Application
Come up with three things you could do to live this big idea out.
Special Classes
STEM
Do Mission 7 (Final Challenge) on CoderZ. If you've already done these, that's totally fine! I will just be making sure you do them by Monday.
Again, here's the link where you can log on: https://play.gocoderz.com/login/#/login
Make sure you log in using the account you made before spring break. Hopefully, you made the username and password the same as your Google log-in. If you have any problems or trouble, please email me. I would love to help you any way I can!