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Vocabulary words - test on Friday
Italics = MATH vocabulary found in
Student Reference Book glossary
beckons abandoned
fares rugged profitable multicultural
parallel angle vertex right angle
Spelling words - test on Friday
hasn’t
I’ve I’d
we’ve wouldn’t
you’d
haven’t wasn’t they’ve you’ve
she’d didn’t won’t
shouldn’t couldn’t weren’t we’d hadn’t they’d don’t
Challenge spelling words
erosion terrain
bonanza sediment
dredge
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Spelling
Choice sheets are due each Friday. Parents, please sign the sheet each week to verify that the activities were completed.
Thanks for your help!
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Assignments
for this week:
Tuesday
1. Draw picture; write definitions
and synonyms for vocabulary words.
2. Math journal #1, page 169.
3. Study ___
multiplication/division tables for 5-10 minutes.
4.
Read and respond.
Wednesday
1. Write
a letter OR make a comic strip OR make a crossword puzzle using six
vocabulary words.
2. Math "Study Link"
page 6.8
3. Study
___ multiplication/division tables for 5-10 minutes.
4.
Read and respond.
Thursday
1. Spelling
sheets due Friday, May 16th.
2. Math
journal #1, page 174.
3. Study
___ multiplication/division tables for 5-10 minutes.
4.
Read and respond.
Look for these questions on the comprehension test this Friday:
1. How is this nonfiction book most like an informational
book?
2. According to this selection, why did many people moved
to the unsettled West in the early 1800s?
3. During which gold rush were the “forty-niners”
prospectors?
4. How long after the California gold rush was the Klondike gold
rush of the Yukon?
5. In the early days out West, why did a prospector leave
his tools on the ground of unsettled land?
6. Why was it important to register a land claim?
7. According to the selection, what were new gold miners
sometimes referred to as?
8. In this selection, what is a cradle used for?
9. According to this selection, why did many people travel
in wagons trains out west?
10. Sometimes, what did a prospector have to do in order to start
mining?
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Choose two (2) Journal Questions to answer -
at least 50 words total
1. How
is the section called “Life at the Mines” different from the other sections of “The Gold Rush”? Give two examples.
2. The
author explains that there were many gold rushes. Explain how the gold rushes
were different form each other? Give two examples.
3. Complete
your own online scavenger hunt with three of your own questions!
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