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FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020                   LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  Why are cowboys bad at math?

 

• Watch Mass at 8:30 or 12:00
• Read p245 – 246
• Watch God Sends His Holy Spirit click for video

20 sit ups

• Finish your advice letter to future third graders.  In cursive.  On tablet paper or loose leaf.
• Please email to me

20 sit ups

• OPTIONAL      Bubba the Cowboy Prince play  (attached to parent email)
  • Assign parts to your family members and read the play.
  • You can make scenery for different scenes or make puppets and turn it into a puppet show

Wanted Poster template for rough draft  (attached to parent email)

• Print the worksheet.  You may want to set it to print black so you don’t use up all your colored ink
• We will work on this on the Zoom call

• 100 multiplication facts – on your own, not charts or calculators  (attached to parent email)
• US map – label with the STATE NAME as many as you can.  No maps, no internet, no parents (attached to parent email)
• Angel of God prayer – copy on tablet paper or loose leaf in CURSIVE   (attached to parent email)
• Foot – trace your bare foot on a piece of paper, cut it out and write the date on it

RIDDLE ANSWER:  Because they're always rounding things up!

 

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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020        Cowboy Week

 

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  Knock, Knock.   Who's there?   Ya. Ya who?

• See parent email for logon details

• Read & complete p205 – 208
• Pull the stained glass picture of Jesus & 2 children from the back of your book.  Keep it near you to remind you that Jesus loved the little children

20  jumping jacks

• Complete p228 – 231 to review unit skills. 
• Check your answers on Educreations: click here

20 jumping jacks

• Cowboy word search – optional  (attached to parent email)

20 jumping jacks

• Solve the Cowboy math word problems (attached to parent email)
• Please email back to me
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• Cowboy boot Symmetry:  REMEMBER  symmetry is a mirror image 
• Educreations: symmetry click here
• Color the two cowboy boots so each boot is a mirror image of the other.  Remember WE LOVE COLOR!
• Answer the questions for boot 1 and 2
• Please email back to me

• Life on the Chisholm Trail   Youtube:  click here
• The Chuck Wagon  Youtube:  click here
• Sister Mary Sue has also been sharing information about cowboys during morning announcements

• Sign onto Brainpop -> health->personal health->sunprotection
• Watch the movie take the Review or Graded test

OPTIONAL SCIENCE FUN DAY

• Youtube: Why You Should Wear Sunscreen  click here
• Learn how sunscreen works to protect your skin in The Great Sunscreen Experiment click here

RIDDLE ANSWER:  I didn't know you were a cowboy!

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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2020     COWBOY WEEK

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: Why did the cowboy thief take a bath before every stickup?

GOOD MORNING  -  Well, we can’t have our usual Cowboy Week but we’ll start with some of the crafts and activities we include.

• Pattern attached to parent email
•  Materials needed:  crayons, color pencils or markers, scissors, glue, toilet paper roll
• Follow step by step directions on Educreations: Click here for directions
• Have this ready to share with the class on our Thursday ZOOM.

• https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82143174797?pwd=endIazBUVEpiTTN6MUFWcllNZmUzZz09
  • Meeting ID: 821 4317 4797
  • Password: 8UaSR8

• Assign parts to family members and read the play – A Father Forgives His Son
• Read p203 – 204

• Educreations: click here for words often confused and answers
• Complete p224 – 226
• Check answers on Educreations when you finish

• Write a letter of advice for a future third grader
• Follow requirements on email attached to parent letter
• Due Friday.  On tablet or looseleaf paper, in cursive.
• Please email back to me

• Listen to Cowboys & Cowgirls Yippee Yay!  click here for story
• Look at the Cowboy Week spelling/vocab words  (attached to parent email)

• Pattern attached to parent email. 
• Print on card stock if possible
• Materials: crayons, color pencils or markers, scissors, tape, glue, toilet paper roll, fabric scrap
• Follow step by step directions on click here for directions
• Have this ready to share with the class on our Thursday ZOOM

• Complete ws of all four operations (8 problems) (attached to parent email)
• Remember to show your regrouping and any remainders
• Email back to me

 
Riddle answer: He wanted to make a clean getaway!

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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  Why would a man living in New York not be buried in Chicago?

 

• Sign onto www.christourlife.com for study guide and online review
• Complete ch22 TEST (attached to parent email)
• Email back to me
• click here for -  Ascension Thursday craft

20 sit ups

• Sign onto www.gonoodle.com and search for By, Bye, Buy Blazers or click here  Go Noodle By, Bye, Buy video
• Complete p220 – 222 
• Check your answers here  grammar and math answers

   

20 sit ups

• Youtube: click here for  Math Antics Basic Division
• Youtube: click here for  Math Antics Long Division
• Educreations: Two-digit quotients with and without remainders

• Complete p139 and 140  1 – 10.  Remaining problems are optional on each page

• Check your answers here grammar and math answers

20 sit ups

• Complete Western States Capitals & Abbreviations TEST    ON YOUR HONOR (attached to parent email)
• Email back to me
• Click here to see pictures of the west  and me on a HUGE horse A Look at the West  

• Log onto Mobymax -> Electrical Energy -> Currents and Circuits.  (**Read this section carefully. In class we talked about electrons moving from negative to positive, and here they say, in an electric circuit, scientists show electric current moving positive to negative, both are correct.)

OPTIONAL SCIENCE FUN DAY –

• DINOSAUR DRAWINGS: (Part 3)
• Saturday, May 23rd at 11:00 AM, Smithsonian Science How is hosting a Video webinar for Families. Two of the world’s top paleoartists, Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger, will teach you how to sketch your own dinosaur drawings!  This is the third of  three drawing programs.  Register here: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/events/video-webinar-families-natural-history-home

• MAKING SALT AND VINEGAR CRYSTALS
• Learn how to make crystals with a few common items by using this website: https://saltandvinegarcrystals.weebly.com/  ***With your parents’ permission make some crystals.  If you try this please send me an email (pconrad@saintjamesschool.org) or write in your copybook explaining what happened.  Have Fun!!!

• GO NOODLE – ELECTRICITY
• Please go online to gonoodle.com. Open Categories > Sensory Motor Skills > Cross Lateral Skills > Electricity. Enjoy an upper body workout!

RIDDLE ANSWER:  Because he is still living

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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2.  How many apples do you have now?

SPANISH      ZOOM MEETING  9:35

• Join Zoom Meeting
• Click here Spanish Zoom Meeting
  • Meeting ID: 818 664 0575
  • Password: 048879

• Read and complete p198 - 200
• Educreations: click here for  lesson 22
• Sign onto www.christourlife.com; read the study guide and complete the ch22 review.  TEST THURSDAY

30 second plank

• Educreations: click here for lesson on Spelling Rules
• Complete p216 – 218

30 second plank

• Educreations: click here for lesson on dividing with 1 digit quotients
• Complete p138

30 second plank

• Study West Region Capitals & Abbreviations www.spellingcity.com  - TEST THURSDAY
• Read p308 – 313
• Answer questions #1 – 5
• Look at the movie (attached to parent email) to see me riding a horse.  (8.5 minutes long)

RIDDLE ANSWER:  You have 2 apples.  You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.

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MONDAY, MAY 18, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  What invention lets you look right through a wall?

• Educreations: click here for  ch22 lesson

20 second wall sit

• Educreations:  click here for Lesson 47 Quotation Marks
• Complete p212 – 214.  Answers for p214 are at the end of the Educreation video

20 second wall sit

• Write state capitals 3 time each, 2 in cursive

  • (Juneau, Olympia, Salem, Sacramento, Honolulu, Boise, Helena, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Carson City)
• Test for West Region capitals & abbreviations is Thursday.

20 second wall sit

• Educreations: division lessons 11.1/2
• Complete p136 1-14 and 29 – 32 (skipping 15-28) and p137

20 second wall sit

• Read p300 – 305
• Answer questions 1 – 3
• Educreations: click here for more information about the Climate and Animals of the West
• Study spelling of capitals and abbreviations at www.spellingcity.com.  TEST THURSDAY
• Check out the webcam at Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful webcam

ZOOM MEETING with Senora Kyker Tuesday at 9:35

Riddle answer: A window

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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020

• Watch Mass at 8:30 or 12:00
• Youtube: Two Greatest Commandments  video
• Sign onto www.christourlife.com for online review
• Complete ch21 TEST  (attached to parent email)
• Email back to me

20 squats

• Educreations: multiply and regrouping twice

• Complete p133   O D D S   ONLY.  NO ROUNDING.  REPEAT.  NO ROUNDING

• Check here for answers p133 answers
• Complete Multiplication TEST – ON YOUR HONOR  (attached to parent email)
• Email test back to me

20 squats

• Complete Western Region MAP TEST  (attached to parent email)
• Email test back to me

• OPTIONAL - DINOSAUR DRAWINGS: (Part 2)   Saturday, May 16th at 11:00 AM, Smithsonian Science How is hosting a Video webinar for Families. Two of the world’s top paleoartists, Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger, will teach you how to sketch your own dinosaur drawings!  This program is the second of three drawing programs, with each week featuring a different dinosaur.     Register here: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/events/video-webinar-families-natural-history-home 
•  
• OPTIONAL – BRAIN POP – CIRCUIT CONSTRUCTION
• Log onto Brain Pop -> Science -> Energy -> Eclectric Circuits –> Games -> Game Up (6) -> circuit construction kit: DC
   
• OPTIONAL – TESTING FOR STATIC ELECTRICITY
• Learn how to make an electroscope and test for the presence of static electricity by using this website:
• https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfe.zele/testing-for-static-electricity/
• ***With permission make and use an electroscope.  If you try this please send me an email pconrad@saintjamesschool.org or write in your copybook explaining what happened. 

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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: Why are teddy bears never hungry?

• Read & complete p190 -192
• MAY CROWNING – get the link from Sister’s email on Thursday

20 Jumping Jacks

• Complete p208 – 210
• Educreations: click here for Parts of a Letter

20 JUMPING JACKS

• Sign onto www.spellingcity.com
• Complete WESTERN STATES PRACTICE TEST.  (Spelling will count on Western Region Map Test)

• Educreations:   Click here for Story Vocabulary Review     ADVANCE TO MINUTE 3 for story vocab review
• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com
• Complete the Reading TEST

20 JUMPING JACKS

• Educreations: Regrouping in Multiplication

• Complete p132  NO ROUNDING.  REPEAT.  NO ROUNDING

• Check your answers here p132 answers

20 JUMPING JACKS

• Sign onto www.spellingcity.com and complete WESTERN STATES PRACTICE TEST.  (Spelling will count on Western Region Map Test)  Study for MAP TEST.  Know how to spell, capitalize and the location of each state
• Practice the West and Southwest states Click here for Online game to Identify the States (assigned May 11 too)
• Read p297 – 299
• Answer questions #3-5

• You may want to check out Stack the States® on the App Store ($2.99) its a fun game.

• Sign onto Brain Pop -> Science -> Energy -> Electrical Circuits.
• Watch the movie then complete the Review (not graded) in the quiz section, then Graded (for a grade). Email your results on the Graded section to pconrad@saintjamesschool.org.  Include your full name.

RIDDLE ANSWER:  because they are always stuffed.

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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

• Read & complete p187 -189

10 situps

• Educreations: click here for lesson Commas in a Series
• Complete p204, 205, 207

10 situps

• Sign onto Spelling City for Statue of Liberty spelling TEST

• Educreations: listen to A Nation of Immigrants
• Check that all Statue of Liberty workbook pages are completed

10 situps

• Educreations: lesson Multiply Three Digits

• Complete p131      NO ROUNDING.  REPEAT.  NO ROUNDING

• Answers ?  check here

10 situps

• Read p294 -296
• Answer questions 1-3
• Educreations:  photos of The Varied West
  • ***WORK ON YOUR POWER POINT STATE PROJECT.  DUE MAY21

• Educreations:  this week's lesson

 

 

• Matilda #5

Answer: yesterday, today and tomorrow

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RIDDLE OF THE DAY: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?  (this is a stumper)

• Read Study Guide:  click here for Ch20 study guide
• Play online review: click here for ch20 online review
• Complete ch20 TEST On your honor  (emailed to parents)
• Scan and email back

Planks 20 seconds   Can you hold a plank for 30 seconds?  Can your parents?

• Educreations: Book Title lesson

• Complete p200 – 202 EVENS ONLY

Planks 20 seconds

• Complete p394, 395
• Practice test in copy book: have a parent dictate words, check, then study what you got wrong
• OR  Complete Spelling City Practice Test & study what you get wrong

• Educreations: click here for Emma and Liberty; Prefix lesson
• Complete wbp392, 393
• Prefix practice game: click here for Rags to Riches Prefix Game

Planks 20 seconds

• Educreations: click here for Multiply with Regrouping

• Complete p129 – 130  ODDS ONLY.  NO ROUNDING.  REPEAT.  NO ROUNDING

Planks 20 seconds

• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com
• Watch West Region Opening Video OR  read p290 - 293
• Practice the West and Southwest states with this game click here for Western US - Locate the State game
• Study Western states – MAP TEST FRIDAY

ANSWER:  a penny

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020

• Watch Mass at 8:30 or 12:00
• Read and complete p182 – 184
• Check your answers click here

20 second wall sit

• Check your answers to yesterday's p196 – 198 click here

20 second wall sit

• Dictation sentences in CURSIVE
• Listen to the three sentences and write them carefully with correct punctuation and capitalization
• Scan and email sentences to me for a grade
• Educreations: Click here for Dictation Sentences

20 second wall sit

• Educreations: Click here for Math video
• Complete p127
• Reflexmath until you get a green circle.  Need to get back into the multiplication mindset

20 second wall sit

• DINOSAUR DRAWINGS:
  • Saturday, May 9th at 11:00 AM, Smithsonian Science How is hosting a Video webinar for Families. Two of the world’s top paleoartists, Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger, will teach you how to sketch your own dinosaur drawings!  This program is the first of three drawing programs, with each week featuring a different dinosaur. Register: Click here to register
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• DANDELION BOUQUETS – MELTING ICE EXPERIMENTS:
  • Go online to dandelionbouquetsdotcom. wordpress .com/2015/02/24
  • Read over Super Cool Melting Ice Experiment and complete with your parents’ permission.
  • If you try this please send an email (pconrad@saintjamesschool.org) or write in your copybook explaining what happened. Have fun!
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• BALLOON BLOW UP
  • Please go online to Whiz Kid Science
  • Type in Easy Kids Science Experiments – Balloon Blow Up (There are a lot of videos. Select the Whiz Kid Science video to watch.  With your parents’ permission do this experiment.  If you try this please send me an email (pconrad@saintjamesschool.org) or write in your copybook explaining what happened.  Have Fun!

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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: Why did the boy bury his flashlight?

RELIGION     God Shares the Wondrous Life of Grace

• Youtube:  What is Baptism?  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what+is+the+sacrament+of+baptism
• Read and complete p179 – 181

15 squats  Be sure your knees don’t extend past your toes when you go down.

GRAMMAR    Abbreviations

• Abbreviations are a shortened form of a word.  They begin with CAPITAL LETTERS and can end with a PERIOD
• Complete p196 – 198
• OPTIONAL PRACTICE GAME:  www.sadlierconnect.com -> Student & Family Resources -> Grammar Workshop -> Green -> unit 6 -> Games -> Lesson 43.     N O T E  -  if you can’t get to games, try Quizzes Lesson 43

15 squats

SPELLING

• In copybook, write words 1-20 in ABC order.  In Cursive.
• Scan and email back for a grade
• Complete wbp385 matching sounds as in moon and foot

READING

• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com.  Read The Story of the Statue of Liberty
• Youtube: Coming to America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ttDUGM-1mU.  This is interesting, you'll like it. 
• Complete wbp389 and 395
• Play Fact or Opinion Millionaire https://www.quia.com/rr/280139.html  -  We've played this at school.  Call a friend and play together

15 squats

MATH    multiplication is back!

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/multiplication-patterns/54598485/?s=RTgMBi&ref=appemail
• Complete p125

15 squats

SOCIAL STUDIES    West Region  DUE FRIDAY

• Label the West Region map with state name ONLY.  Spell & capitalize correctly.
• Lightly color then scan and email back for a grade
• Use map on p295 for reference
• On the 2nd page, write the state capital, from p295 and the abbreviation from p296
• Scan and and email back for a grade 

15 squats

SCIENCE    Static Electricity

• Sign onto Brainpop -> Science -> Energy -> Static Electricity
• Watch the movie. 
• In the Quiz Section first complete the Review (Not Graded) then complete Graded Quiz (for a grade)
• Remember to email results on the Graded section to pconrad@saintjamesschool.org

SPANISH   ALSO EMAILED ON TUESDAY

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/lesson-23-p-91-may-5-2020/54545983/?s=aMcw40&ref=appemail

READ ALOUD –  MATILDA  #4  This section is about 30  minutes long.

• https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/matilda-4/54641557/?s=1F0BW0&ref=appemail

RIDDLE ANSWER: Because the batteries died

 

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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make it a longer line?

RELIGION   Unit 4

• Unit 4 TEST  open book      (emailed attachment & scan & email back)

15 jumping jacks

GRAMMAR    Capitalizing Proper Nouns

• Proper nouns are PARTICULAR / SPECIFIC nouns.  The first word in a proper noun is always capitalized as are all the important words.  Example – Fourth of July.
• Complete p192 – 194  
• On p193, stop & determine which word(s) are proper nouns; most have 2 words that need to be capitalized.

15 jumping jacks

SPELLING

• Write words 11- 20 3 times each with 2 in cursive
  • (suit, chew, glue, Tuesday, bushel, bamboo, mildew, soothe, barefoot, renewal)
• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/spelling-words-statue-of-liberty/54520934/?s=jJ2fjS&ref=appemail

READING

• Listen to Let Freedom Ring and review story vocab
• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/let-freedom-ring-story-vocab/54536345/?s=6ZFkOh&ref=appemail 
• Complete wbp 387 - 388
• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com to read The Story of the Statue of Liberty.  Read by Friday.

15 jumping jacks

MATH   Fractions

• Sign onto Mobymax -> assignments -> Fractions TEST.  PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE QUESTIONS – SOME NEED MORE THAN ONE ANSWER.
• You can use your fraction strips.

15 jumping jacks

SOCIAL STUDIES   end of Southwest Region

• Sign onto Mobymax -> assignments -> Southwest Region QUIZ.   Open book.   PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE QUESTIONS – SOME NEED MORE THAN ONE ANSWER.   

Answer: Draw a short line next to it and now it’s the longer line.

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MONDAY, MAY 4, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:  A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

RELIGION     Unit Review

• Complete Review p170 -172
• Check your answers on Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/unit-4-review-pages-key/54419400/?s=safJx4&ref=appemail
• Log onto www.christourlife.com -> family resources -> grade 3 -> unit4 Stump the Shepherd to review for Unit 4 TEST on Tuesday

15 situps

GRAMMAR    Writing Sentences Correctly

• As I’ve been saying ALL YEAR, sentences begin with a capital letter and have the appropriate end mark.  There are 4 types of sentences – statement, question, command & exclamation.
• Complete p188 – 190

15 situps

SPELLING   vowel sounds in moon and foot

• Write words 1-10 3 times each with 2 in cursive
  • (few, school, true, goose, fruit, cookie, cushion, noodle, bookmark, balloon)
• OPTIONAL Spelling City games to practice

READING   The Story of the Statue of Liberty

• Big Question video – What is Freedom? https://www.pearsonrealize.com/community/program/bcd8b2a7-7d98-3311-a36b-29071538e1a4/34/tier/a5f70f0e-0256-3a15-93fc-0ccbb6b1fdf8/44/content/f443abf8-cabe-377e-bc52-72ae16a8c652/43
• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com and view Concept Talk Video & Envision It! Facts & Opinions
• Complete wbp 386

15 situps

MATH

• Sign onto Mobymax -> Assignments ->
• Complete Equivalent Fractions & Add/Subtract Fractions – FOR REVIEW, NOT A GRADE
  • TEST ON FRACTIONS TUESDAY

15 situps

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Sign onto www.pearsonrealize.com ->Watch video Growth of Southwest Introduction
• Read p274 – 279
• Answer questions 1-5
• OPTIONAL: Complete online quiz

TOMORROW – TEST on Religion Unit 4 and Math - Fractions

RIDDLE ANSWER:  He was bald

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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020

Riddle of the day: Where do cows go for entertainment?

RELIGION

• Watch Mass at 8:30 or 12:30    First Friday
• Read and complete p168 – 169

GRAMMAR    Unit 5 Pronouns 

• Unit TEST  Complete p184 -187  OMIT 21-24
• Scan and email to me

MATH    Add & Subtracting Fractions

• Educreations:  https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/adding-subtracting-fractions/54392129/?s=7TmfzN&ref=appemail 
• Complete p151 & 152
• Reflexmath -  get the green circle.  We go back to multiplication next Thursday

SCIENCE      Electricity

• Log onto Brainpop ->Science->Energy -> Electricity
• Watch the movie
• In the Quiz Section first complete the Review (Not Graded), then complete Graded (For A Grade) ** Remember to email your results on the Graded section to pconrad@saintjamesschool.org
  • 1. OPTIONAL – FAMILY FUN!  Investigate Density
    • Log onto Whiz Kid Science – density
    • Open and watch Salt Water Density Tower – Easy Kids Science
    • ***With your parents’ permission create your own salt water density tower. If you do try this please send Mrs. Conrad an email (pconrad@saintjamesschool.org) or write in your copybook explaining what happened.  Have Fun!!!

• 2. OPTIONAL – Go Noodle- Think Like A Scientist
  • Log onto gonoodle.com.
  • Open Categories > Science > Think Like A Scientist. (Guided Dance)
  • If you get to watch this, in your copybook list the 5 parts of the Scientific Method that they mentioned.

PE  - VIRTUAL FIELD DAY FRIDAY, MAY 22

• Check out the activities (email to parents)

Answer:  The moo-vies.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY: What has three letters and starts with gas?

RELIGION      ch19  Jesus unites us with all the saints

• We may all be feeling lonely right now because of the quarantine but even though we aren’t with our friends, grandparents and cousins, we are not alone because all the members of the Communion of Saints are helping us and praying for us.
• Read and complete p165 – 167
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5EcbH1FJ1s

Planks 20 seconds

GRAMMAR     unit 5 review

• Log onto www.sadlierconnect.com ->enter 22046 -> St. James School -> Student & Family Resources -> Grammar Workshop grade 3-5 -> green -> unit 5 -> games.  You don’t need to log in with your name.
• Play all games for lessons 34 – 40 EXCEPT lesson 39. 
• If you can't get to games on your ipad so just do the quizzes.

Planks 20 seconds

READING

• 1. Sign onto PearsonRealize -> My Work ->TEST
• Read carefully.  Read all the choices.  Answer all the questions.
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• 2. Sign onto Mobymax -> click on books in top left corner -> Reading Skills Literature (blue button) ->
  • 3 short assignments Compare & Contrast with Venn Diagram, in a Series & 2 versions of the same story.
  • Due Monday May 4  for a grade

Planks 20 seconds

MATH   mixed numbers

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/math-mixed-numbers/54326091/?s=a77JDe&ref=appemail
• Complete p150

Planks 20 seconds

SOCIAL STUDIES     The Southwest’s Past – very interesting

• Read p268 – 273 in text OR go to PearsonRealize.com and read online
• Answer questions 1-5

RIDDLE ANSWER:  a car

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TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY:   David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son? 

RELIGION

• Ch18 TEST (emailed to parents) please email back

Wall sit  -  slide down the wall until your legs are at a right angle.  Hold that position for 20 seconds

GRAMMAR     contractions with pronouns

• Remember contractions use an apostrophe not a comma
• Complete p180 – 182
• p182 try saying the tongue twisters out loud then challenge your family to try

Wall sit  -  20 seconds

SPELLING    TEST

• Sign onto Spelling City -> take Practice Test -> study any words you get wrong -> take Spelling Test.  ON YOUR HONOR

READING

• Sign onto Pearson Realize -> click on assignments -> read Communities Celebrate Cultures
• In copy book, write 3-5 sentences about a tradition in your family. 
  • Write in complete sentences, using capitals, punctuation, correct spelling and good handwriting.  (cursive or print)
• Scan and email to me for a grade in Language Arts and Handwriting.

Wall sit  -  20 seconds

MATH   Part of a set

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/finding-part-of-a-set/54209673/?s=U3N5G4&ref=appemail
• OR Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxwp-K2apU
• Complete wbp149

SOCIAL STUDIES  Climate of the Southwest

• Educreations:  https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/climate-of-the-southwest-ch8-2/54216059/?s=IvKpJq&ref=appemail

SPANISH 

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/4-28-20-tuesday-lesson-23-page-90/54216701/?s=CluDER&ref=appemail

ART

• See email attachemnt sent to parents for project #3

MATILDA read aloud #2

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/matilda-2/54211370/?s=jntR7b&ref=appemail

Riddle Answer: David

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MONDAY, April 27, 2020

RELIGION

• Read and complete p161 – 162
• Assign parts to family members & read the play Lily of the Mohawks: Kateri Tekakwitha (emailed to parents)
• Study for ch18 test on Tuesday
  • Optional: Christ Our Life online review
  • Optional: Draw Kateri  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrggRyUzZvw 

15 squats    Keep your knees over your toes when you squat

GRAMMAR    #38 Possessive Pronouns

• Remember that possessive means ownership so now we’re working on using pronouns that show who owns something.  (her, his, their, our, my, your, its)
• Complete p172 – 173

15 squats

READING    I Love Saturdays y domingos

• Complete wbp335, 336 & 337
• Scan and email wbp335 for a grade
  • Optional: sign into Mobymax ->click on books in top left corner -> click on blue button Reading Skills Literature for assignment called Recounting and Main Events.  There are 4 sections.  This is not for a grade just practice for the reading test on Thursday.

SPELLING     TEST TUESDAY

• Study list words on Spelling City.
• Practice test in planner, copybook or orally with parent

15 squats

MATH    Order Fractions

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/comparing-fractions/54109323/?s=sUz9uq&ref=appemail
• Complete wbp148

15 squats

SOCIAL STUDIES   Southwester Land & Water

• Read p257 – 259
• Answer questions 3,4,5,6

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020

RELIGION 

• Mass 8:30 or 12:00
• Read p159 – 160 completing both pages.  We’ll check them on Monday
• OPTIONAL –Four Marks of the Church activity.  Color each section, cut and glue onto construction paper.  Add some people inside the church.  (emailed to parent)

SPELLING

• Dictation sentences in CURSIVE
  • In copy book, skip a line and write the date
•  Listen to the 3 sentences and write them carefully with correct punctuation and capitalization;   
• Educreations:  https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/dictation-sentences/54045038/?s=hxBRxP&ref=appemail
• Email sentences to me for a grade

MATH

• Reflexmath – get the green circle

READING    Optional READ ALOUD – Matilda by Roald Dahl  

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/matilda-read-aloud-1/54043886/?s=gSb1HW&ref=appemail

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Complete & email back the Grand Canyon worksheets if not done yet

SCIENCE  both Optional

• EXTRA PEEPS? Investigate – Family Fun.  Please go online to Science Buddies.  Open Science Projects (** in 2 places).  In the Search bar type in Peep Science.  Open and watch the first link: Peep Science video.
• ** With your parents’ permission, if you have extra peeps, try some of the activities.  If you do try them please send me a short email (pconrad@saintjamesschool.org) to let me know how it turned out.  Or Write 2-3 sentences about the activities in your copybook. Have Fun!
•  QUIZLET Please go online to Quizlet. Log In, then type in stjthird. Click on stjthird Flashcards and Study Sets.  Open the Science – Electricity (Study Set). Select an activity, or more, from the Study or Play sections to complete.

MUSIC

• Check Mrs. Keffalas’s website for assignment https://www.saintjamesschool.org/~nkeffalas@saintjamesschool.org/natalie-keffalas

 

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020

RIDDLE OF THE DAY  There's a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even all the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?

RELIGION    ch18

• Read p157 – 158

10 situps

GRAMMAR    #36  object pronouns

• Just like pronouns can take the place of a noun in the subject, they can also take the place of a noun that follows a verb 
• Complete p164 – 167 Read the sentence with your answer to see if it sounds right.

10 situps

SPELLING    homophones

• Sign onto Mobymax -> Assignments -> Homophone quiz.  Read carefully, it can be tricky.

READING    I Love Saturdays y domingos

• Sign onto Pearsonrealize.com ->My Work -> I Love Saturdays y domingos
• Read story out loud to your parents
• Complete wbp332, 334

10 situps

MATH    estimating & comparing fractions

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/estimating-and-comparing-fractions/53977933/?s=2iLO4F&ref=appemail
• Complete p146, 147
• Sign onto Mobymax -> Assignments -> Ch12 Fractions – Pay attention, this is for a grade.  Use your fraction strips.  Question 1 has 4 answers

10 situps

SOCIAL STUDIES    Southwestern Land & Water

• Read p254 – 256
• Complete TEST – SW states, capitals & abbreviations (emailed to parents; email back)
• Complete Grand Canyon worksheets (emailed to parents; email back to me)

10 situps

SCIENCE

• Sign onto Moby Max (Electrical energy)
• Please complete only the next section: Electric charges. (*Read over and listen to all information carefully.)

SPANISH    from Tuesday

• Educreations:https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/lesson-23-april-21-2020/53870329/?s=rVHgP3&ref=appemail

ANSWER TO RIDDLE:  Its a one story house so there are no stairs.

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TUESDAY, April 21, 2020

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Annie!  We hope you have a great day!

RIDDLE OF THE DAY  - What can you hold in your left hand and not in your right? 

RELIGION     Jesus considers what we do to others as being done to Him

• Read p152 – 154
• Complete p153 and discuss your responses with your parents
• Complete online review https://isr.loyolapress.com/col_g3_s17
• Download ch17 test, complete & email back by Friday

High knees 1 minute.  March in place lifting your knees as high as you can

GRAMMAR   Pronoun-Verb Agreement

• Complete p160 – 162
• Be sure you have completed 156 – 158 from Monday and then check all your answers on
• Educreations https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/grammar-lessons-34-35-check-your-answers/53842466/?s=5hBhhe&ref=appemail

High knees 1 minute.  March in place lifting your knees as high as you can

SPELLING     homophones  I Love Saturdays y domingos

• Write words 13 – 20 3 times each (2 print and 1 cursive at least)
  • LIST WORDS (write, right, new, knew, their, there, they’re weather, whether)
• Spelling City play games for spelling list words for practice

READING    I Love Saturdays y domingos

• Educreations: story vocabulary   https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/saturdays-y-domingos-vocabulary/53849662/?s=HNYfrw&ref=appemail
• Complete wbp 327 - 331 

High knees 1 minute.  March in place lifting your knees as high as you can

MATH    Equivalent fractions   Equivalent means EQUAL

• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/fractions-on-a-number-line-and-chart/886897/?ref=appemail
• Brainpop Equivalent Fractions  https://jr.brainpop.com/math/fractions/equivalentfractions/
• USE YOUR FRACTION STRIPS – line up one edge and then use a ruler against a fraction to see what is equal
• Complete wbp145

High knees 1 minute.  March in place lifting your knees as high as you can

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Study the map, capitals and abbreviations for the Southwest Region.  TEST THURSDAY.

SPANISH

• Technical difficulties right now, will try to email tomorrow morning

 

ANSWER: Your right elbow

 

 

 

 

MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020

Joke of the day – Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up?        It was too tired!

RELIGION

• Read p149 – 151, completing puzzle on p151
• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/religion-ch17-monday/53640548/?s=7AHNaz&ref=appemail

20 jumping jacks

GRAMMAR    Pronouns unit 5

• Pronouns take the place of a noun.  They can be singular (I, you, he, she, it) or plural (we, you, they)
• Watch Youtube Schoolhouse Rock pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0
• Complete p156 – 158

20 jumping jacks

SPELLING    Homophones

• Watch Gonoodle rap video: https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/by-bye-buy?s=Search&t=homophones
• Watch Brainpop video https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/word/homonyms/
• Write words 1 – 12 3x each, 1 in cursive
  • LIST WORDS (to, too, two, week, weak, road, rode, stair, stare, bear, bare)

20 jumping jacks

READING     I Love Saturdays y domingos

• Pearsonrealize.com sign on
• Watch Concept Talk Video and Envision It! Animation: Main Idea and Details
•  Educreations:  The Texans https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/the-texans/53775453/?s=iC8my5&ref=appemail

20 jumping jacks

MATH    ch12 Fractions

• Watch Brainpop: Parts of a Whole  https://jr.brainpop.com/math/fractions/basicpartsofawhole/
• Download  & print fraction strips (email attachment)
• Educreations: https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ch-12-fractions-intro/53758235/?s=2QmMkm&ref=appemail
  • Color each strip going across a different color
  • Cut each strip going across  -- DO NOT CUT individual boxes
  • Store in an envelope for safety
• Complete wbp 144

20 jumping jacks

SOCIAL STUDIES    Southwest Region

• Download & print Southwest map
• Use your Social Studies book to label the map with state name, capital and abbreviation
  • SPELL & CAPITALIZE CORRECTLY
  • Color lightly each state with different colors for each state
• TEST ON MAP, CAPITALS & ABBREVIATIONS WILL BE THURSDAY (4 states, 4 caps, 4 abbrev)
• Pearsonrealize.com sign on
• Watch Chapter Opener: Regions: The Southwest OR read p250 – 253