Group 1 - Homework Assignments

UPDATED: June 30, 2007-

Sunday June 24, 2007

Homework

Homework in Summer????
You bet!!! If you don't use it, you lose it...
So...make it a goal to do a little English every day!

Go here and print out pages 17 and 19 for your summer reading/English activity program.
Remember! It is better to do a little every day, than a lot once in a long while.

Have a great vacation!!

Tuesday June 19, 2007

Homework

None!
Bring all your books, workbooks and papers for next lesson.

Sunday June 17, 2007

Homework

Fifth Grade Editing. Find the errors in the 10 sentences. Twenty-seven mistakes altogether!

Sunday June 10, 2007

Homework

Using a dictionary worksheets from RHLSchool.com.
Use your dictionary to discover the correct pronounciations and definitions of the words.

Tuesday June 5, 2007

Homework

Finish final draft for your short report.

Sunday June 3, 2007

Homework

Titanic Treasure - worksheets

Tuesday May 29, 2007

Homework

Continue working on your short report. Make sure that paragraphs are organized correctly and logically.

Sunday May 27, 2007

Homework

Titanic Treasure - read the book.
Comprehension questions.

Sunday May 20, 2007

Homework

1. Workpage on Simple/Complex/Compound/Compound-complex sentences.
2. Finish reading "The Three Little Pigs: The Wolf's Story."
3. Make sure to bring the book report for "The Mystery Wind" for next Sunday.
4. Make sure to finish the "homograph" worksheet.For next Sunday.
   Remember: NO MISTAKES ALLOWED!!!! Look up the words in the dictionary if you are not sure, then read the sentences out loud to yourself and make sure they make sense!

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Creative Writing

A SHORT REPORT

The assignment is to prepare a short report on a game. I gave you the choice of chess or Monopoly.

• Make sure to use at least two references. A good first one is Wikipedia.com .
• More info on chess can be found in Fact Monster (type "chess" into the search box).
• A good one for Monopoly is The Hasbro Site.

Sunday May 13, 2007

Since we originally weren't supposed to have a lesson today, it was a "surprise," but we worked on the following topics:

• the difference between affect and effect.
• beating the spell check in the computer...with a work page
• a workpage on homophones for homework.

Check this out: Eye halve a ....

Tuesday May 8, 2007

Creative Writing - Poetry Fun

An easy lesson...we had fun writing limericks and haiku.

Sunday May 6th - Lag b'Omer, holiday.

Tuesday May 1, 2007

Creative Writing

You received spelling list 28 to study, and write for each word what part of speech it is.

Creative writing workbook - Fables - pp. 55 and 61.

Sunday April 29, 2007

Homework

1. Do the last exercise on the past simple/progressive page: Mark which case (1-6) each answer follows.
2. Study spelling lists 17 and 28. (You will receive list 28 on Tuesday.)
3. Check here for some information about verbals. (Scroll down the page.)

Tuesday April 24, 2007

Creative Writing - Fables

Sunday April 22, 2007

PROOFREADING STEPS

1. Check for complete sentences.
2. Check if you can use better, more vivid, words.
3. Check that your sentences are varied in length and form.
4. Check your spelling.
5. Check for capitals and punctuation.

Homework

• Proofread your 5-minute writing exercise.
• Study spelling list 22
• Exercise on past progressive
• Work for at least 20 minutes in the "Spinners" workbook."

Tuesday April 17, 2007

Creative writing

We reviewed what makes a GOOD description by checking out some samples.
You can see those samples here (Go to "descriptive models").

Sunday April 15, 2007

We are getting close to the end of the year!
There are four main grammar topics I want to cover this year:

• comparatives and superlatives
• past progressive
• compound and complex sentences
• punctuation

Homework

• Correct (proofread) your five-minute writing exercise.
• Work pages for "The Mystery Wind"
• Exercises concerning past progressive

Sunday March 25, 2007 - Tuesday April 10, 2007 -
Pesach Holiday!!! Chag Sameach

Tuesday March 20, 2007 - Creative writing.

Fables

Homework:

• Homework Pages in the Creative Writing workbook: 48,49,51,53,54.
• Review and learn the difference between compound and complex sentences.

Sunday March 18, 2007

• We started working on our new book The Mystery Wind and discussing it. Checked out and defined unfamiliar words. You have the comprehension sheets!
• Spelling list 17. Do the worksheet, and learn the spellings. Don't forget to have fun and play some games!
• Correct the tests you made for yourselves! Be honest, and make all your changes in a color!
• If you like, you can check out the quizzes I gave you, online here. Note: The online quiz consists of 36 questions, but they are not numbered. The printed version has 4 pages, 9 questions each. I gave you pages 1 and three .

Tuesday March 13, 2007

Because Shiran was sick, Erez used this opportunity to rewrite a story that he had done last year. What a difference a year makes!!

Sunday March 11, 2007 (45 minutes only)

• I collected sentences for spelling list no. 12 and 13.

Tuesday Mar. 6, 2007 - Creative Writing

Welcome back to everyone. It has been such a long time.!

Topics covered today

• heard your raps....they were GREAT!!! Send them to me and I shall put them up here!
• I collected your 5-minute writing assignments.
• I collected the tests you prepared for each other.

Sunday Feb. 11, Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007, Sunday Feb. 18, Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007, - I was in Thailand

Sunday Feb. 25, Tuesday, Feb 27, 2007, you were working on a project

Sunday Mar. 4, Purim

Tuesday Feb. 6, 2007

Erez's Diamante

                       Fish
                scaly , slippery
       swimming, gillbreathing, undulating
      gills  ,  fins  /  wings  ,  feathers
           flying , drinking , flapping
                  free, feathered
                      Birds 

Sunday Feb. 4, 2007 - Due Sunday Feb. 25, 2007

Homework - and for work during my absence

1. Study spelling lists nos. 12 & 13.
2. Write GOOD sentences for the words in list no. 13. You can use more than one word per sentence. Make sure that the use of the words shows that you KNOW what they mean!! If you are not sure, your best friend is the....dictionary!
3. Read "The Mystery Wind," marking any new words that you do not know. Use the context, and help from the pictures, to try to figure out what the word means.
4. Do a 5 minute (or more) writing exercise each day that you would have had a class (that means 4 entries).
5. Prepare a "test" using all the topics in grammar that we have learned from the beginning of the year. You can go to All the Grammar You Should Know link on left menu bar, to help you remember. By the way...you two really SHOULD KNOW all the grammar there already!
6. Memorize the dictionary.
7. (just kidding for no. 6....!!!)
8. Continue working ahead in the Spinners workbook.

Creative Writing: Tuesday Jan. 30, 2007 - For February 2.

RAP!

Study your stanzas and be ready to present them in a RHYTHMIC way. You may add "body percussion" (slaps, stomps, claps, etc.) or even simple percussion instruments (tapping pencils/rulers..a can with rice inside!!).

Here are some sample raps. You can hear them if you have "Windows Media Player". You can see the text, and listen to the first part of the rap. (Hearing it all, required payment...but at least you hear a sample!)

• Dealing with Feelings
• Cool Cooperation
• Monster rap The entire version. It is quite long! Let me know what you think!

Sunday Jan. 28, 2007

Homework

• Study spelling list no. 12
• Finish maze on the schwa sound. Use a dictionary if you are not sure!
• Make sure you print out the new books: The Mystery Wind, and Li's Tangram.
• We briefly discussed the concept of "clauses" and simple, compound and complex sentences. Come back here soon, I will put on a link and a quiz!

Creative Writing: Tuesday Jan. 23, 2007

Not much "creative writing" done.
Reviewed spelling list number 11. Learn this by Sunday. If you need to learn the definitions, go here.
For games and such, go here .
Spinners. Make sure you have finished to page 9.

Sunday Jan. 21, 2007

Homework:

• Finish up the worksheets for "Force of Water" (main ideas and supporting details)
• Make up your words and definitions for the "Balderdash" game.
• Make sure you have a supply of paper in your binder!
Next book Please go here, look on list on left side of page and choose the next book you would like to do.

Creative Writing: Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007

Diamantes!!!
Oh what fun we had making up our diamantes...not as easy as we thought!!

Here is mine:

                Scissors
              sharp, pointy
       cutting, separating, slicing
     blade,  handle / bottle,  liquid
       joining, sticking, connecting
             sticky, drippy
                  Glue

Here is Shiran's

                 Pepper 
              black, spicy, 
     grinding, non dissolving, sneezing, 
   vegetable, grinder / mineral,  shaker 
       shaking, dissolving, shining, 
              white, salty, 
                  salt. 

Send yours in!

Want to try some more? Here are some topic ideas.

• Boy/Girl
• Man/Woman
• Kids/Adults
• Dad/Mom
• Love/Hatred
• Dreams/Nightmares
• Vacation/School
• Sun/Moon
• Humans/Aliens

HAVE FUN! I will send examples of the above topics next week!

Participles

One type of "word" needed for the diamantes was a "participle" - actually a "present participle."
This is the "-ing" form of the verb. We use the present participle for the present PROGRESSIVE (I am running to school! Am I boring you with all this?). We can also use it as an ADJECTIVE (Look at my new running shoes. The boring explanation put me too sleep.).
**** There is also a "past participle", which is the form of the verb that we use for the "past passive." (That plant was grown by Peter. We were bored to death by that teacher.) It can also be used as an ADJECTIVE (The grown plant was over 20 meters high. The bored children started to make noise.)

More examples.
An eaten apple. (An apple that WAS eaten.)
An eating apple. (An apple that is MEANT FOR eating, NOT FOR cooking. I don't mean "an apple that is eating something" d'uh!! Unless you know apples with mouths and teeth!)
Learn more here
Test your understanding here. (Note, numbers 3,5, 8 are the past simple verb....not really a participle.)

Sunday Jan. 14, 2007

What we did:

• Spelling test: list # 9.
• Checked the adjective into adverb exercise.
• Reviewed and corrected the very difficult assignment of writing those 15 sentences!
• Played memory game with the vocabulary from "The Force of Water."
  Remember these words???
  • nutrients, irrigate, pollution
  • delta, sediment, tributaries
  • groundwater, floodplain, watershed
  • ocean, rain, vapor

Homework:

• Learn spelling lists 8 /en//er/ and 10 (plurals)
• play the games here (go to lists 8 and 10 on the site!!)

Friday,Jan. 12, 2007

Sunday Jan. 7, 2007

Reading Comprehension: The Force of Water. We did the KWL chart. Try to think about the force of water in different things you see every day.

Homework: read the book and make your memory card definitions for next Sunday. (Cut 6 pieces of paper the same size as the word cards, and write a definition for each word.)

Spelling list #9. Write sentences as follows, making sure to include at least one of the spelling list words in each sentence:

• 3 sentences with prepositional phrases (pp)
  The boy kicked the ball into the goal.
• 3 sentences with transitive verbs (that take a direct object) (vt)
  The boy kicked the ball.
• 3 sentences with intransitive verbs (that don't take a direct object) (vi)
  The boy kicked hard.
• 3 sentences with active verbs (the subject DOES the action)(av)
  The boy kicked the ball.
• 3 sentences with passive verbs (the subject gets the action DONE TO IT) (pv)
  The ball was kicked (by the boy).
  (Note: The verb in the passive voice always has "is, am, are, was, were, be, being, or been" as a helping verb.)

Note: Please note that both the active and passive sentences both have TRANSITIVE verbs in them!

Creative Writing - Fri Jan. 5, 2007

Today was spent some time reviewing our poems and deciding what needed doing in order to make them just great! This includes making sure we have the words (spelled correctly) that we need, and the correct number of syllables to make a great meter.

Creative Writing - Fri Dec. 29, 2006

Oh my...where are all the lessons going? These swimming lessons are really cutting into our time. Oh well....

Poetry Anthology.
You each picked a form of poetry to begin with.

1. The first step is to brainstorm ideas for your poem. The more the merrier! Keep writing out ideas until you hit one that you think will be great!
2. Next step: find appropriate words.
   • For acrostics...you need lines or words that begin with the appropriate letters;
   • for limericks, you need words that rhyme with the person/thing you are writing about.
3. Write a few examples to bring next Friday. (If you find it really difficult, one will do.)

Here is a link to some limericks and one to some simple and more advanced acrostics.

Here is a link to The Leader Poem and the story about it.

Don't forget to study spelling list no. 8 for next Friday too!

Creative Writing - Tues Dec. 12, 2006 - Due Tues. Dec. 26

New Topic - Poetry Anthology.
We will be learning a few new forms of poetry, following last year's Haiku and Acrostics!
You have received 11 examples which will be eventually be part of your own "Poetry Anthology."
Homework: Prepare a Table of Contents page. Don't put any page numbers. Just write the list of topics in alphabetical order. You may want to leave some space near the top of the list in case you will add an "Introduction" to your anthology.
If you wish, you can design a cover page already, or you will have to do it later on when we complete the booklet.

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I promised to post my version of "Comparing Animals," but didn't manage to get it done last week. Here they are now. Tell me which you like better - Version 1 or Version 2.

Click on the guestbook to leave your comment.

Also, find out the names of the males, females and babies of ANY animal, here.

Sunday Dec. 10 2006 -

• Study Spelling List No. 8. Games for the list (go to list 8 on the site!!)
• Do the handout page on lay/lie, raise/rise and sit/set.
  If you would like to see a chart of the verbs, go here (scroll down to No. 2.There is a chart that summarizes the use of the words, and then some more explanations.)
• Do the handout page on changing adjectives into adverbs. If you are unsure about spelling, check a dictionary!
• Make sure you bring The Force of Water to the next lesson.

Creative Writing - Tues Dec. 5, 2006 - Due Tues. Dec. 12

Prepare your final copy, for your composition on comparing and contrasting animals.

Try a their/there/they're quiz

A really fun "which/that" challenge.
Note: The language for the challenge is a bit advanced, but try it just the same...maybe mom or dad can help!

Remember, "that" is information that is essential to know. "Which" just adds some extra information.
Female dragons that have two heads do all the cooking.
(The other female dragons do other stuff.)
but
Female dragons, which have two heads, do all the cooking.
(All the females cook, the males don't. And, by the way, female dragons have two heads, in case you didn't know!)

Sunday Dec. 3 2006 -

• Study Spelling List No. 7b. Games for the list (go to list 7 on the site!!)
• Do the handout page on lay/lie and raise/rise.
  Quiz for raise/rise and for lay/lie
  EXTRA!!! Sit and set follow the same idea as raise and rise.
  Sit is intransitive and set is transitive.
  eg. Sit down on the chair. but, Set that doll on the chair.
  Now you can try another quiz.

Creative Writing - Tues Nov. 28, 2006 - Due Tues. Nov. 28

Prepare your first draft for your composition on comparing and contrasting animals.
Here is some info on horses and donkeys.
Here is some info on lions and tigers .

Sunday Nov. 26 2006 -

• Study Spelling List No. 7. Games for the list (go to list 6 on the site!!)
• Finish questions 4-10 on page 3 of the Grammar Handout.
• Do the reading comprehension worksheet (front and back) for The Up-down Boy.

Do you know the difference between "lovely" and "lovingly?"
Well, the first is an adjective and second is an adverb! Although words that end in "ly" are usually adverbs, some are adjectives. .....the end of the text seems to have disappeared!!! Sorry about that!!! (Linda).