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Assignment 1:

____  Write each spelling and vocabulary word 3 times in your best cursive.  Cover the word each time to help you remember the spelling pattern.

____  Sort your spelling words into two word groups.  Write a sentence to explain the spelling rule for each group.

The spelling words are: beauty, lazy, ready, sorry, empty, honey, valley, duty, hungry, alley

The vocabulary words are:  transcontinental railroad, argonaut, infrastructure.  Practice saying a definition for each word.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

Assignment 2:

____ Practice the multiplication sweep.

____  Practice the spelling and vocabulary words.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Assignment 3:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

____  Thursday, May 10 is World Cultures Day.  For this assignment, you will tell about your culture and where you are from.  We will use this for World Cultures Day.

                                       My Culture

Where my family is from                                  How I live my culture

My name is Paul, and my family is from Ireland.  I lived in Ireland until I was three years old, and then I came on an airplane to the United States.  I now live in Bolinas, California.

I live my culture by playing Irish fiddle music with my family and friends, and by cooking special foods.  I practice the music every evening with my mother and sister, and we perform for our family when we have a holiday with special foods.

Assignment 4:

____ Read for 30 minutes.

____ Practice the spelling and vocabulary words

Tarea 1:

____ Escriba cada palabra ortografía y el vocabulario 3 veces en tu mejor letra cursiva. Cubra la palabra cada vez que le ayude a recordar el patrón de ortografía.

____ Ordena tus palabras de ortografía en dos grupos de palabras. Escribe una frase para explicar la regla de escritura para cada grupo.

Las palabras de ortografía son: belleza, perezoso, la miel lista, lo siento, vacía,, valle, el deber, con hambre, callejón (beauty, lazy, ready, sorry, empty, honey, valley, duty, hungry, alley)

Las palabras de vocabulario son: ferrocarril transcontinental, argonauta, la infraestructura. (transcontinental railroad, argonaut, infrastructure ). Practique diciendo una definición para cada palabra.

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en un capítulo de libro.

Ejercicio 2:

____ Practica el barrido de la multiplicación.

____ Practicar la ortografía y el vocabulario.

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en su capítulo de libro.

Tarea 3:

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en su capítulo de libro.

____ Jueves, 10 de mayo es el Día Mundial de las Culturas. Para esta tarea, usted le dirá acerca de su cultura y de dónde eres. Vamos a usar esto para el Día Mundial de las Culturas.

                                                   Mi Cultura

Cuando mi familia es de                                        Cómo vivo mi cultura

    Me llamo Pablo y mi familia es de Irlanda. Yo vivía en Irlanda hasta que tenía tres años, y después me vine en un avión a los Estados Unidos. Ahora vivo en Bolinas, California.

    Yo vivo mi cultura tocando música de violín irlandés con mi familia y amigos, y por la cocción de alimentos especiales. Yo practico la música todas las noches con mi madre y hermana, y llevamos a cabo para nuestra familia, cuando tenemos una fiesta con comidas especiales.

Ejercicio 4:

____ Leer por 30 minutos.

____ Practicar la ortografía y el vocabulario

Monday:

____  Complete your math shape book.  Write a poetic description of each shape that also uses math words such as parallel, acute, obtuse, and right angle. The shapes to include in your book are:  square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

____  Practice the Multiplication Sweep.  (Practice it backwards or in a random order if you are already a Rockstar.)

Tuesday:

____  Many families have come to California since the beginning of the Gold Rush in 1849.  Interview your parents or family members.  Find out when, why, and how your family came.  Take notes on the tree chart outline paper.

____  Write the interview information from your tree chart as an expository paper in cursive.  Include an introduction and a conclusion.   

                   T= My Family Arrives In California. 

Wednesday:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book. 

____  Write a poem in cursive.  This will be one of your possible selections for the poetry anthology.  You get to decide the style of poem and the subject of the poem.

Thursday:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book. 

____  Complete the math page.

Monday:

____  Find a picture from a newspaper or magazine.  Cut the picture in half along a line of symmetry and glue the picture on to your paper.  Carefully draw the missing half of your picture.  Label your drawing, “Line of Symmetry”.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

Tuesday:

____  Draw a polygon that follows these rules:

It has two lines that are parallel.

There is an acute angle.

There is an obtuse angle.

There is a right angle.

____  Label the parallel lines, acute angle, obtuse angle, and right angle.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

Wednesday:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

____  Write a summary in cursive for the book you are reading.

____  Practice the multiplication sweep, because it is important to keep your skills up.

Thursday:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in a chapter book.

____  Select 4 challenging vocabulary words from your book and write the words in cursive.

____  Look the words up in a dictionary or online, and write a definition that you understand for your 4 vocabulary words.  The definitions will also be written in cursive.

Monday:         ____Design Front Cover        ____  Read for 25 minutes

Tuesday:         ____ Vocabulary Words        ____  Read for 25 minutes

Wednesday:    ____  Questions 1,2                ____ Read for 25 minutes

Thursday:       ____  Questions 3, 4                ____ Read for 25 minutes

Monday:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Tomorrow is the CA state writing test for 4^th grade students.  Your homework is to eat a good dinner and go to sleep early so that you are well rested for tomorrow.

Tuesday:

____  Practice your Spelling and Vocabulary words with your family.

The spelling words are:  knight, castle, honor, kneel, climb, wrinkle, limb, answer, listen, honest.

The math vocabulary words are: 

Product:

Quotient:

Sum:

Difference:

Ratio:

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Wednesday:

____  Complete the math page.

____  Practice your Spelling and Vocabulary words with your family.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

____  Encourage your parents to attend the Math Night for Parents.  The workshop is

          tonight from 6:30-8:00.

Thursday:

____  Complete the Subject Review paper and the reflection questions.  This paper is about how you are as a student.

All of the capitals and punctuation must be correct.

____  Practice your Multiplication Sweep

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Monday:

____  Practice your spelling and vocabulary words with your family.

The spelling words are: wagon, capture, silver, reward, shelter,divide, nature, alone, office, famous, parade.

The vocabulary words are:  mission, padre, viceroy, presidio

____  Practice your Multiplication Sweep with your family.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Tuesday:

____  Complete the math page.

____  Practice your Spelling and Vocabulary words with your family.

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Wednesday:  CA State 4^th Grade Writing Task

Directions: 

In this writing test, you will write a story.  Your writing will be scored on how well you:

1)  Tell a story about an event or an experience

2)  Organize the story to have a beginning, a middle, and an end

3)  Use details to help the reader imagine the event or experience

4)  Use grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Writing the Story:

Imagine that you suddenly wake up and find yourself a player on your favorite sports team.  Fans are cheering for you.  Tell why they are cheering, and write a story about what happens next.

____  Plan your writing with an outline for the beginning, middle, and end.  This can be quick sketch picture boxes with some words.

____  Write your story with details and dialogue.  Include a strong beginning and a strong ending.

Thursday:

____  Take a second look at your narrative story from yesterday.  Make some revisions in a different color.  Edit your work for C.U.P.S (capitalization, usage-do the words make sense, punctuation, spelling).

____  Practice your Multiplication Sweep

____  Read for 25 minutes or more in your chapter book.

Lunes:

____ Practicar la ortografía y el vocabulario con su familia.

Las palabras de ortografía son: wagon, capture, silver, reward, shelter, divide, nature, alone, office, famous, parade.  (turismo, la captura, la plata, la recompensa, la vivienda, se dividen, la naturaleza, por sí solo, la oficina, famoso desfile).

Las palabras de vocabulario son: mission, padre, viceroy, presidio (misión, padre, virrey, presidio).

____ Practique su barrido de multiplicación con su familia.

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en su capítulo de libro.

Martes:

____ Complete la página de matemáticas.

____ Practica tu ortografía y el vocabulario con su familia.

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en su capítulo de libro.

Miércoles: Estado de California cuarto grado de tareas de escritura

Instrucciones:

En esta prueba por escrito, usted va a escribir una historia. Su escritura se anotó la forma en que así:

1) Contar una historia acerca de un evento o una experiencia

2) Organizar la historia de tener un comienzo, un desarrollo y un final

3) Utilice los datos para ayudar al lector a imaginar el evento o experiencia

4) Usar la gramática, la ortografía, puntuacion, y la capitalización

Escribir la historia:

Imagínese que de repente se despierta y se encuentra a un jugador en su equipo deportivo favorito. Los fans están animando para usted. Explica por qué se están animando, y escribir una historia sobre lo que sucede a continuación.

____ Planifique su escrito con un esquema para el comienzo, medio y final. Esto puede ser rápidamente cuadros de imagen boceto con algunas palabras.

____ Escribe tu historia con los detalles y el diálogo. Incluir un principio y un final fuerte.

Jueves:

____ Tome un segundo vistazo a la historia narrativa de ayer. Hacer algunas revisiones en un color diferente. Editar su trabajo para CUPS (capitalización, el uso de las palabras-no tiene sentido, puntuacion, ortografía).

____ Practique su barrido de multiplicación

____ Leer por 25 minutos o más en su capítulo de libro.

Monday:

____  Read for 30 minutes in your chapter book.

____  Practice your multiplication sweep.

Tuesday:

____  Read for 30 minutes in your chapter book.

____  Practice your spelling words and vocabulary words with your family.

The spelling words are:  ocean, police, parent, today, become, polite, palace, belong, clever, relate.

The vocabulary words are:  punctuation, capitalization, quotation

Wednesday:

____  Complete the math page.

____  Practice the spelling and vocabulary words with your family.

____  Read for 20 minutes (or more!).

Thursday:

____  Practice the Multiplication Sweep.

____  Practice the spelling and vocabulary words with your family.

____  Read to yourself for 20 minutes from your chapter book.

____  Read your chapter book out loud to your family for 10 minutes.

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