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Homophone Spelling Words

Week of 5/27 – 5/31

  1.     buy: to get by paying the price for

Ex: Please go buy a new pair of shoes.

  1.     By: next to, near; through the means of; beyond, past

Ex: Go by the store and grab the ingredients for cookies.

  1.     Bye: short for ‘goodbye’

Ex: Did you say bye to your teacher?

  1.     To: in a direction toward; shows direction

Ex: I walked to my neighbor’s house to see if she could play.

  1.     Too: as well; also

Ex: I want that homework pass too!

  1.     Two: the number

Ex: I have two sisters.

  1.     Know: to understand or have the facts about

Ex: I want to know all about my favorite athlete.

  1.     No: not so; not at all; not any

Ex: No I don’t want to go to the dentist!

  1.     Knew: past tense of know

Ex: I knew her before she came to the school.

  1.     New: just found, discovered, or learned about; never used or worn before

Ex: My family got a new puppy last week.

  1.     Are: plural of ‘is’

Ex: Are you coming to my party?

  1.     Our: relating or belonging to us

Ex: Our favorite tv show is American Idol.

  1.     They’re: short for ‘they are’

Ex: They’re here for a week to spend time with my family.

  1.     There: at or in that place; towards a location

Ex: Get rid of the spider over there!

  1.     Their: relating or belonging to them

Ex: Their favorite cookie is chocolate chip.

 

Mrs. Zieman will say the word, then say a sentence, then repeat the word. Learners will be required to write the correct word on their paper. Practice the sentences Mrs. Zieman gave you in class.

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Verbs Study Island due!

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Grammar quiz on the 6 verb tenses: present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect.
 
Please study what the tenses are and the differences between them.
 
Quiz format:
Learners will be given a sentence and they will have to write what tense it is on the line. 

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Perfect Verb Tense color by number activity due Wednesday in class! 
 
 

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Study Island: "Academic Language" and "Root Words, Suffixes, and Prefixes" due Thursday April 4th. 

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Preposition and Interjection study islands due 3/21

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Try to get most of your letter done by Wednesday, so we can edit in class that day....before it will be due Thursday!

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Print 2 colored copies of your State Report. We will NOT be printing at school, so printing must be done at home. 
 
Please do not print before Wednesday, as we will be editing their reports on Tuesday. 
 

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By Wednesday, all research and typing it into paragraphs must be done. 
 
**All information must be put into your own words when writing it in paragraphs**

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Grammar quiz on conjunctions

 
See interactive notebook for notes or see below on coordinating and correlative conjunctions.
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet
Correlative conjunctions: both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but, whether/or


Quiz format:

For coordinating conjunctions:
Learners will be given a sentence and they will need to underline the conjunction.
ex: I want to go to Disneyland but I want to go to Knott's Berry Farm too!
 
For correlating conjunctions:
Learners will be given a sentence with one of the coordinating conjunctions, and there will be a blank. They will need to fill in the blank with the other half of the pair.
ex: Last year, I not only broke my arm _____ I also broke my leg. (answer: but)

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ROAR card due on Thursday with a parent signature!

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Westward Expansion report due by Friday- no later!! Can be submitted earlier if learner is done. 
 
Please print document (if learner would like their pictures colored), or share the google doc to [email protected]
 
 

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The Westward Expansion Research report is due Friday!!
 
Please use the following checklist to make sure everything is complete before you print it, or before Mrs. Zieman prints it.
(REMINDER: if you want your pictures to be colored, you need to print yourself, otherwise Mrs. Zieman will print at school)
 
1. Did you add your bibliography on its own page at the end?
2. (For those who have a Table of Contents, did you add the Bibliography to it?)
3. Do all of your pictures have captions?
4. Are all your fonts the correct size?
Chapter titles, Bibliography title, Table of Contents title, Westward Expansion title and name=18 pt
A,B,C titles= 14 pt
The rest of the text=12 pt
5. Did you check to see if you have any big blank spaces? if so, get rid of them (hint: zoom to 50%, and you can see if there are any weird spacing) 
6. Did you read over your work and make sure ALL errors were fixed and sentences make sense?
 
Please make sure all documents are shared to me at: [email protected]

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All typing must be done for the Westward Expansion report
That includes:
Introduction
All chapter a's, b's, and c's (c's are optional)
Conclusion
 
The format for each paragraph (excludes introduction and conclusion) is:
1.Topic Sentence
2. Fact
3. Explanation (why is the fact important, what would it be like for those people during those times, what is suprising about this fact?
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all facts are done
 
Format for Introduction:
1. Hook
2. 1 sentence about each chapter
3. Thesis: Chapter 1's title, Chapter 2's title, and Chapter 3's title, all _____________________________________________________________. (finish the sentence...essentially the thesis) 
example of thesis: The Native Americans, Transportation, and The Gold Rush, all play a vital role in the Westward Expansion. 
 
Format for Conclusion:
1. Repeat thesis from introduction
2. 2 sentences about what the reader learned from the report (ie: In The Gold Rush chapter, you learned....)
3. 1 wrap up sentence to end the report
 
 
Attached is a sample of what the writing should look like when it is completed by January 7th

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Every learner must finish their research by Tuesday 12/11 (for periods 2 and 5), and Wednesday 12/12 (for period 1). They all are bringing home their composition book with all of their research, and their outline. They know exactly what sections they still need to work on. They are to write the facts they find, in their own words. So they might ask for some help! 

They should all be copying their websites into their bibliography which is one Google docs. 

To access Google docs, search Google docs on Google. They will then be able to log into their Google docs by using the same log in they use to log into the chrome books in class. 

 

(some learners are done with their research, so they do not need to work on it this weekend)

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Extra Credit!! 
 
Tom the Turkey Disguise due Tuesday 11/13!!
 
Tom must be disguised and there must be a short story telling the story of how you and Tom became friends and how you disguised him! Story must be three paragraphs with a beginning middle and end!

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Grammar quiz on the following:
 
-Run on's (they will be given a few sentences that is a run on, and they need to fix it by adding comma's and/or periods)
-common and proper nouns (learners will learn this on Tuesday)

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Second narrative story due on Monday 11/5!! 
Story must:
1. be written in pencil
2. have hand drawn pictures
3. pictures must be colored
4. front cover must be colored with Title, Name, and Writing Period
 

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Final draft of narrative story with front cover due Tuesday 10/23

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Final narrative done by Friday!!
Must be written with pictures drawn and colored!!

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SMALL and very short grammar quiz on complete subjects, simple subjects, complete predicates, simple predicates. Learners can study their IAN (interactive notebook) to prepare for the quiz.