Weekly Assignments
Contact Information
Email: tommi.rife@bcpsk12.com
Week of: April 17-21, 2023
READING: Read story each night. Study vocabulary definitions and spelling words. Students are to do spelling words in ABC order to be turned in each Friday for a homework grade. READING tests will be given on Fridays so please make sure your child is here unless it is an emergency, as they will fall behind.
Why the Sky Is Far Away
Only test on Spelling/Vocabulary
Test: Friday, April 21, 2023
Vocabulary
1. tempting- something you want very much
2. quantities- amounts that can be counted
3. ominously- when it makes you think something bad might happen
4. upcoming- something that will take place soon
5. proclamation- a statement or message about an important matter that everyone needs to know
6. pungent- a strong smell that may be unpleasant
7. snickered- to laugh in a rude or disrespectful way
Spelling List
1. jelly
2. bottom
3. pillow
4. happen
5. butter
6. lesson
7. cherry
8. sudden
9. arrow
10. dollar
11. hello
12. rabbit
13. letter
14. button
Review words:
15. carpet
16. problem
17. until
18. mistake
Challenge words:
19. arrive
20. pattern
21. sorrow
22. suppose
Language/Reading skills:
Author’s Purpose the reason or purpose an author writes something:
Entertain: to get you to feel emotion
Inform: to give information or facts
Persuade: to get you to do or think something
Main Idea/details: what the paragraph or piece of writing is mostly about
Syllables: how many/divide words
example: un/wrap/ping 3, fish/ing 2
Science
Simple Machines
SOL 3.2 The student will investigate and understand simple machines and their uses. Key ideas
include
c) simple machines increase or change the direction of a force
d) simple and compound machines have many applications
MONDAY:
Introduce Unit 10 “Simple and Compound Machines”
Do Virtual lesson 1: “What Are Simple Machines?” on Think Central
TUESDAY:
Do Virtual lesson 2: “What Are Some Other Simple Machines?” Think Central
WEDNESDAY:
Do Simple and Compound Machines activities on the link: Click on Force and Motion then simple machines
https://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm
THURSDAY:
Virtual Lab Lesson 3 “How Do Simple Machines Affect Work?”
FRIDAY:
Watch YouTube video on Simple and Compound Machines
**To Access Virtual Lessons on Think Central**
Go to Clever and get on “Think Central”. Click “My Library” then on the bottom of the left side click “Science” Then click on “Science Fusion Student Access”. This will give the students access to the virtual lessons and labs. We will begin on Unit 1 and do each lesson in class. If your child is absent, they may do these lessons/labs on their own. The student edition (same as their book) is also available on Think Central.