Reading and Vocab Work

Reading and Vocabulary Homework

We are busy working through studies in Science: Body systems and Social Studies:  Native Americans.  This week will not be having “typical” vocabulary homework.  There will be no test this week.

We started work with Scholastic News in class today.  Students are to use this issue (“Would You Eat This” is on the cover) for homework this week.

Monday:  Finish Reading the issue and complete Brain Busters.

Remember to write your name.

Tuesday:  Choose an Article to write about. 

Write the topic, main idea and supporting details.  You may use this map to help you.

    Topic:

    Main Idea:

    Details: 

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Wednesday:  Write the vocabulary words from the issue and their definitions

 (hint:  there are 5 of them and they are bold and their definitions are on the page).

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Thursday:  Be safe if you celebrate Halloween

Friday:  Turn in all work from the week

Body systems research

Body Systems Reserach

Songs and Activities

urinary system song

digestive system song

circulatory system song

muscular system song

respiratory system song

nervous system

Brain song

human body systems pictures
systems game
kidshealth
neuroscience for kids
kids biology
digestive system
human body games
human body book
anatomy

Native American Vocabulary

 Native American Vocabulary Work

*OPEN NOTE TEST will be next week, not Friday


Please be sure to bring your social studies book to and from school each day this week... you will need it at home to help with homework and at school!

Monday- Write definitions (use text book glossary at the end of the book (p.R96-R103))

Tuesday- Use all words in a sentence or story that explains the word.

Wednesday- use the text book to find what page the word is on (hint:  the index at the back of the book is very useful for this: p. R104-R124)

Thursday- This is an extra day to get caught up on any of the previous days work (we will be having an open note test this week on Native Americans).

Ancient Civilization Vocabulary

Ancient Civilizations in the Americas

This week we will be studying early civilizations and how humans migrated onto the North American Continent.  This week your test will be on a little bit of geography and about some of the civilizations who lived in North America.

You will need to be able to label on a map:  the continents N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica

You will need to know (for this portion you will be able to use your social studies notebook)

The Bering Straight = a narrow passage of water connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean

The Bering Land Bridge = A land bridge between Siberia and Alaska that was exposed during the most recent Ice Age when the  waters of the Bering Strait receded.

Ice Age  - The most recent glacial period, which occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch and ended about 10,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, great sheets of ice up to two miles thick covered most of Greenland, Canada, and the northern United States as well as northern Europe and Russia.

Early Farming began about 5,000 years ago.  Some of the earliest crops were:  corn, squash, avocado and beans.

this allowed humans to settle down and live in one place and establish permanent communities.

You will need to show on a map where the following civilizations were located.  And list a few facts about them. 

The Olmec (1500 BC in Southern Mexico)

The Mound Builders (1000 BC in the Ohio River Valley)

The  Anasazi  / Puebloans (100 BC in the South West of North America)

The Mayans (AD 300 in Southern Mexico)

homework this week:

Monday:  Sketch out a world map and label the continents and draw something that represents each continent (in the continent)

Tuesday:  Sketch out a map of North America and show where the Olmec, The mound builders, the Anasazi/Puebloans, and the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas lived (draw something that is related to each culture)

Wednesday:  Crossword Puzzle

Thursday: Study

Friday: Test

skeletal system vocabulary

Skeletal System Vocabulary

Monday:  Match the following  scientific bone names to their common names

Tuesday: Draw and label a skeleton that shows all of the bones (can be of any animal that has all of the bones)

Wednesday: crossword

Thursday:   Study… test will be a skeleton to be labeled with scientific names

1.  cranium =___________________

2.  mandible =___________________

3.  clavicle =___________________

4.  scapula =___________________

5.  sternum =___________________

6.  humerus =___________________

7.  radius and ulna =___________________

8.  vertebrae =___________________

9.  coccyx =___________________

10.  femur =___________________

11.   patella =___________________

12.   tibia and fibula =___________________

13.   ribs =___________________

14.   carpals =___________________

15.   tarsals =___________________

16.  phalanges =___________________

backbone         collarbone             jawbone               hand bones    tailbone            fingers/toes          thighbone (upper leg)           skull          feet bones         chest bone            upper arm bone          knee cap   lower arm bones             lower leg bones           shoulder blade       pelvis/hipbone

*educational songs:

parts of the skeleton
name those bones