Mrs. Bagnall's Classroom Blog: November 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009

MORNING WORK: Cursive

SPELLING:

-Rewrite any misspelled words from last week's test 5 times each.

-Test tomorrow

GRAMMAR: Test tomorrow; play possessive game online!

READING: Weekly assessment tomorrow: Review your practice packet

SOCIAL STUDIES:

-Finish your Chapter 3 Practice Test

-Chapter 3 Test is tomorrow: Scroll down to read the "silly" ways to remember the cultural regions.

MATH: Study Link 4.5- Remember to show your work!

MORNING WORK: Cursive & DWP

SOCIAL STUDIES: Study your ISN and flashcards. Test is Friday!

MATH: SL 4.4 and play decimals game!

OTHER: Picture retakes are tomorrow. Return the package you ordered if you plan on retaking your photo.

Need help comparing decimals?

Click here.

Need more practice with possessive nouns? Here's a game to help you!

MORNING WORK: Cursive

SPELLING: p. 60

GRAMMAR: p. 58

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• As a parent to sign your study guide

• Review your flashcards & ISN p. 12 and 13

• Study the silly ways to remember the cultural regions (on blog & study guide)

• Do the online internet tutorial

MATH: Study Link 4.3 (THAT side only!)

Silly Ways to Remember a ton of information:

Northwest Coast: The Cool Kwakiutl live on the Coast. They wear waterproof cedar bark capes, trap salmon with cedarbark fish traps, and live in wooden houses with cool cedartotem poles.

California Intermountain Region: The Pretty Pomo, wearpretty shell necklaces, and make pretty baskets decorated with shells and beads. The Pretty Pomo live in a pretty cone shaped redwood house.

Southwest: The Hot Hopi live in the Southwest and have to stay cool by wearing cotton dresses. The Hot Hopi are thirsty from being so hot and from climbing the ladders up to their adobe apartments. They are so thirsty that they store water to drink in clay pots.

Plateau: (This is the gross one.:)) This region is shaped like a foot and it is green! This region is the Plateau (Pla- TOE) Yuk. The Yakima lived there and ate roots to survive. Roots are at your toes (Pla-TOE). The Yakima lived in underground winter houses--think roots are underground, too. You can remember that they put baskets on their heads because everything else is already at their feet.

Great Plains: Think PLAIN and simple. The Sioux lived here. (Think: Sue is a simple name.) They used buffalo for everything! Buffalo and teepees are PLAIN and simple to remember when you are studying Native Americans.

Eastern Woodlands: Think tongue twister! The Algonquian (Al-gon-kwee-an) in the Eastern Woodlands lived in wigwamswearing wild turkey-feather ceremonial capes. The turkey is a bird and you can link that to a turkey bird birch canoe. :)

Southeast: The Southern Seminole used cypress canoes. To keep safe from the sharp saw grass they wore deerskin leggings. They lived in palm leaf chickees so they wouldn'tsweat!