Monday
1. Ulysses quiz tomorrow
2. Prism Math: p. 56
3. Math duo: # 61-66
4. Math quick quiz tomorrow on fractions
Tuesday
1. Online Math: continue to practice fractions
Wednesday
1. Progress Report: review and sign
2. Book Club Choices: (Use the internet to further research the novels that are interesting to you.Choose your prefered four boks to work with into the next term. )
Book Summary of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Cantos (easy read)
Joey whirls through life like the Tasmanian Devil, his body's uncontrollable impulses running far ahead of his ability to control them. This sympathetic but realistic portrait of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) helps children and adults understand the syndrome better.
Book Summary of Addison Addley And The Things That Aren't There by Melody DeFields McMillan
(easy read)
Addison Addley hates math. He hates public speaking too. Actually, he hates anything that involves work, but he only has a couple of weeks to write and memorize his grade five speech. The problem is, he can't think of a single topic. When he finally comes up with an excellent idea for a speech, it almost writes itself, but it's his poor math skills that make speech day unforgettable.
Book Summary of Racing for Diamonds by Anita Daher (at level read)
Jaz lives in the small northern community of Destiny and is a new member of the Junior Canadian Rangers. Her divorced parents argue a lot, and Jaz hopes if she wins a dog-mushing derby, they will be so proud of her they will stop arguing. But the derby would be a lot more fun if she wasn't paired with Colly, an older boy who is a more experienced JCR.
On the derby trail all Jaz's newfound skills, her will to survive and her ability to get along with Colly, are put to a life-and-death test.
Book Summary of Eggs by Jerry Spinelli (easy read)
David's mother died almost a year ago, and his father is burying his grief in work. So David, 9, lives with his grandmother, and takes out all of his anger and pain on her. Primrose, 13, never knew her father, and her mother is so distant that Primrose has moved into a van in the backyard. David meets Primrose while she is pretending to be dead at an Easter egg hunt, and the two begin sneaking out at night, roaming the town looking for trash to sell. As these two angry, hurting children squabble and connect, both find something in the other that allows them to begin to heal.
Book Summary of Spy Smuggler by Paul Lelaud (at level read)
The main character of Spy Smuggler is Paul Lelaud from France. We meet Paul just as he is on the cusp of turning fourteen during the German occupation of France in World War II. The boy’s father had heroically been killed while fighting for France’s freedom against the Germans. Paul couldn’t wait to do his part and was eager to join the resistance. Since his father’s death, Paul and his mother lived with his uncle. Paul’s uncle, it seemed, was everything that Paul didn’t want to be. He refused to do anything that would displease the Germans. He even baked their bread. But looks can be deceiving and the best cover is one that no one even thinks to question. Spy Smuggler was very exciting and action filled while aptly illustrating that not all war heroes are famous. It also shows that sometimes being more secretive and cautious doesn’t create as much suspicion so the job is done a lot more efficiently.
Book Summary of The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer (challenging read)
When Lindsey first visits the Kindred Spirit mailbox at Sunset Beach, she has no idea that twenty years later she will still be visiting the mailbox - still pouring out her heart in letters that summarize the best and worst parts of her life. Returning to Sunset for her first vacation since her husband left her, Lindsey struggles to put her sorrow into words. Memories surface of her first love, Campbell and the rejection that followed. When Campbell reappears in her life, Lindsey must decide whether to trust in love again or guard herself from greater pain. The Mailbox is a rich novel about loss, hope, and the beauty of second chances.
Book Summary of Rules by Cynthia Lord (at level read)
Catherine's brother, David, is autistic, and their family life revolves around his needs. Catherine loves her brother and cares enough about him to attempt to help him by compiling lists of rules for living like an ordinary person: "If someone says 'hi,' you say 'hi' back." "If the bathroom door is closed, knock (especially if Catherine has a friend over)!"
But Catherine is also frustrated and embarrassed by David and by the way her needs seem secondary, if not nonexistent, to her family. When a girl her age moves in next door, Catherine hopes to be friends but worries that David will ruin the relationship. And her growing friendship with a mute paraplegic boy makes things even more complicated.
Book summary of Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French (challenging read)
Mark and his friends often make up stories while waiting for the bus before school. While waiting together for the bus one rainy morning, Mark’s friend Anna begins telling her friends a story about a young girl named Heidi who lived during World War II. Heidi was Hitler’s daughter, hidden away from almost everyone so that her identity would be kept a secret. Mark and his friends become quickly fascinated by Anna’s story, which seems too detailed and realistic to be imagined. As Mark learns about Heidi’s cloistered life, her strange relationship with her father, and her growing awareness of her father’s plans for a supreme race, he becomes interested in learning more about Hitler and World War II. He wonders what he would have done in Heidi’s place, with an evil father responsible for the deaths of millions. At the end of Anna’s story, Heidi escaped from the rubble of bombed Berlin and eventually immigrated to Australia, keeping her identity a secret until she finally told her granddaughter many years later.
Thursday (Monday schedule)
1. ERC: practice lines of play
2. Planet Earth Diaries: paragraph (mostly finished in class)
3. Online Math: 15-20 minutes DAILY practice of fractions (see links)
4. Math duo: 2 fractions stencils
Friday
1. Online Math: continue practising fractions using sites - 15 to 20 minutes
2. Math duo: 2 stencils on fractions- quiz next Tuesday
3. Ancient Greece Duo: Aesop stencils
4. Online Reading: Aesop link
