Rehearsing

Rehearsing for our Family Day.

Tomorrow's the big day!

Questions for Homework (TUESDAY)

Please send your answers via email and remember to give complete answers.

1. Who was Richard Owen and how did he do the New Year's celebration memorable?
2. What great discovery did Owen achieve by studying skeletons?
3. What's the meaning of the word dinosaur?
4. Why was Marsh excited about finding a bird's skull with teeth?
5. What was the relationship between Cope and Marshall like?

Spelling Words

excuse
scene
muscle
explore
pledge
journal
science
schedule
gigantic
scheme
Japan
excellent
excellent
exclaim
fascinate
ginger
scholar
scent
dodge
smudge
schooner
exttraordinary
reminisce
acknowledge
prejudice
allergic

Questions Dinosaurs MONDAY

Please send your answers to my email. COMPLETE ANSWERS PLEASE.

1. Where did Mary Anning and her dad go to look for fossils?
2. Why did her father say that they were fishing for curiosities?
3. Describe the first skull that Mary found. What was it named?
4. Describe her other two great findings. What were they named?
5. Which was the second dinosaur to be named?  Why did it get its name?

Grammar Exercise

Here's the link for your grammar homework

http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/sva03.htm


Send me your score by email.

Compound Words (Spelling)

waterproof
teaspoon
grasshopper
homesick
barefoot
courthouse
earthquake
rowboat
scrapbook
countryside
lightweight
fishhook
spotlight
blindfold
whirlpool
tablespoon
greenhouse
postcard
hummingbird
thumbtack
sledgehammer
brokenhearted
chalkboard
straightforward
granddaughter

Spelling Homework

Hi kids
Please click on this link to review Spelling words.

http://www.quia.com/hm/437013.html

Song

Please print this song.

Read it carefully and identify any subject-verb agreement relationships in it (highlight the simple subject and the verb that shows the action of the object). If you find any subject-verb agreement mistakes correct them.

TICKET TO RIDE 

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away

She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care

She said that living with me
Is bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free
When I was around

She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care

I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me

Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away, yeah, oh

She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care

I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me

Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me

She said that living with me
Was bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free
When I was around, oh

She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care

My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care

My baby don't care
My baby don't care

Real Life Heroes

This is the list of the Real Life Heroes you need to work on:

Nat. A- Elizabeth of Bavaria
Aranza- Irena Sendler
Sofi- Mahatma Gandhi
José-Sophia Scholl
Regina- Oskar Schindler
Nico D- Harriet Tubman
Manuel- Malala Yousafzai
Angel-Nelson Mandela
Vale-Martin Luther King Jr.
Iñaki-Miep Gies
Fer J.-Manuel Ramírez Uruchurtu
Santi- Gustav Schröder
Bruno-Rosa Parks
Manrik-Hellen Keller
Maca-Mother Teresa
Pato-Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
Mariana- Doc Hendley (Wine to Water)
Nico R.-Razia Jan (Afganistan)
Fer R.-Narayanan Krishnan (India)
Pao- Pushpa Basnet (Nepal)
Sebas-Eugene and Minhee Cho
Diego-Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
Nat V- Aki Ra (Cambodia)

Ape Adventures Questionnaire

1. Why is the future of apes in our hands?
2. How did Jane Goodall finally get close to the apes?
3. What does Birute do with orangutans?
4. What's surprising about bonobos?
5. How do gibbons communicate with each other?
6. Where can Cross River gorillas be found?
7. What's the difference between monkeys and apes?

Make sure you write COMPLETE answers!

Spelling Words Passage to Freedom

staffs
ourselves
pants
scissors
loaves
volcanoes
chiefs
buffaloes
flamingoes
beliefs
echoes
shelves
quizzes
sheriffs
dominoes
thieves
measles
avocados
chefs
pianos
bailiffs
wharves
mosquitoes
armadillos
desperadoes

Spelling Words Oct. 7-11

snore
tornado
spare
appear
career
square
report
prepare
pioneer
chair
beware
smear
repair
sword
ignore
order
engineer
resort
volunteer
declare
impair
directory
hardware
clearance
porpoise

Homework Oct. 7-11

Monday:

Write Spelling words twice.
Look up a synonym for each Spelling word.
Research about wedding traditions from the country you chose.
Go to www.wegivebooks.org and search for the book "Welcome to China",
read from pages 4 to 15.

Tuesday:
Write 10 sentences with Spelling words.
Go to http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/linking_verbs/quiz522.html and take the test. Print the page.
Read from pages 16 to 30.

Wednesday:
Go to Kubbu and answer Linking and Action Verbs exercise.
Read from pages 31 to 40

Thursday:
Review for tests.
Finish reading "Welcome to China". Answer the following questions and send them to my e-mail
kito@peterson.mx

1. What's the name of the unusual mountain landscape in southern China? What does it look like?
2. Chinese don't use our alphabet. How do they write? How many of these do you need for simple reading and writing?
3. Why did China become cut off from the rest of the world?
4. How much of China's territory can be used for farming?
5. What's your opinion of the illustration on pages 28-29?
6.Why is the Yangtze and important river for China?
7. What's the meaning of wearing red clothes during the New Year festival?
8. What's the word for good bye?

Francisco Jiménez

Here are some links you might find useful:

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/francisco-jimenez

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/francisco-jimenez-interview-transcript

http://www.scu.edu/cas/modernlanguages/facultystaff/jimenezhomepage.cfm

Spelling Words Sept. 30-Oct. 4

shovel
southern
northern
chapter
hyphen
chosen
establish
although
challenge
approach
astonish
python
shatter
ethnic
shiver
pharmacy
charity
china
attach
ostrich
emphasis
sophomore
athlete
phenomenal
chimpanzee

Magazines

Please bring to school old magazines, preferably in English of course.
It's important that they're magazines you or your parents won't be needing anymore because you'll be cutting out things from them.

Spelling Words Week 4 (Sept. 9-13)

supplied
supplying
denied
denying
decided
deciding
included
including
admitted
admitting
occurred
occurring
qualified
qualifying
identified

Anne Frank Exhibition

Dear parents of Fifth Grade:

Your children will soon read a story that is about Jews fleeing their country. For this reason, I would really appreciate it if you could take them to the exhibition "Ana Frank una Historia Vigente".

The exhibition can be visited Mondays to Thursdays 10:00 to 17:15 and Fridays and Sundays 10:00 to 13:15. The address is: Museo Histórico Judío y del Holocausto, Acapulco 70 Col. Condesa.

It is very important that all visitors take an ID, otherwise they won't be allowed inside.

http://www.museojudiomexico.com.mx/museojudiomexico/

Homework August 28, 2013

Go to www.kubbu.com and answer subjects and predicates activity.

Read 10 min.

Here you can check out our schedule!

Welcome to a new school year!