Monday, October 24, 2011

The Oranges' Homestudy Blog is back! I will try to keep it up to date. If you have any questions about the blog page or the assignments, or due dates, don't hesitate to ask me. You are welcome to call me or email me at marcferguson@charter.net., or you can post a question on the blog itself.

Marc

Homestudy for Week of 10/24

Reading:
Week 6 Assignment, due Thursday 10/27

Spelling:
Study Words for Friday quiz, 10/28

Math 4 & 5:
Study Math Facts daily, 4th grade quiz Wed and Fri, 5th grade quiz daily

Math 4:
Heads Up, week Tues 10/24, wk 5

Math 5:
Finish Daily Work, Math's Mate due Thurs 10/27

Spelling - Week 5

Fourth Grade: (review)

Atlantic
pretzel
tunnel
establish
wisdom
frantic
signal
quintet
subtract
actress


Fifth Grade:

funniest
brighten
smiling
British
mighty
easier
whipping
selfish
icy
Spanish


Challenge Wrods:

academic
mechanism
procrastinate
acceptable
tremendous
sacrifice
manufacture
poverty
virtually

Monday, June 13, 2011

Pictures of Hollis Woods - Week 6

Pictures of Hollis Woods
Week 6: Read pages 147-166


Vocabulary:

skittering (151)

nestled (152)

contented (166)

bassinet (166)



Questions:

1. Choose 2 words and look up their definitions in a dictionary. Then, write them in your journal.

2. On page 10, Beatrice says to Hollis, "Sometimes we learn from our own drawings; things are there that we thought we didn't know." What did she mean? (1-3 sentences)

3.How did Stephen know that Hollis was at the house? (1 sentence)

4. Who is Christina? (1 sentence)

5.What did you like/dislike about the book? Would you recommend it to a classmate? (1-3 sentences)

Monday, June 6, 2011

Reading Group - Week 6 _Island of the Blue Dolphins_

Week 6 Read pages 17-end


Vocabulary:

crevice (160) snares (161) crest (166)

vanquished (168) horizon (173)


Questions:

1. Choose 3 vocabulary words and look them up in a dictionary. Then, write the meanings in your reading journals.

2. Use the other 2 vocabulary words and write meaningful sentences for each one in your journals.

3. Describe what happened to Rontu (paragraph)

4. Why do you think Karana found herself thinking more and more abut Tutko and Ulape (paragraph)

5. What happened to the ship? (1-2 sentences)