Buck Lake Elementary School

video: easy questions DIGITIZED week 8 assignments

week 8 special area assignments

Required Assignment Details

In reading, this week we are focusing on Wonders unit 5, week 2.  The comprehension skill this week is cause and effect.  This skill is review.  The grammar skills are antonyms and synonyms.  Another focus skill this week is fact and opinion.  All of these are review skills.  I have included a few videos to help review these skills.

antonyms          synonyms          BrainPopJr: Fact and Opinion

In math, both skills are review.

Optional Assignment Details

If you are interested in your child completing more skills correlated to Wonders lesson 5.2, please use the link below and choose what you like.  My advice would be to go over the vocabulary and spelling words using the link below.  They are listed on the "weekly outline."  Also, remember your child may play correlated games by logging onto ConnectED using ClassLink.

5.2 Wonders Resources

Math

This week's optional work will focus on the second half of chapter 11 which covers fractions.  This is lessons 11.7 - 11.10.  This is new material which is why it is optional.  I've included helpful links below to introduce this skill.

 Definition of a Fraction                 BrainPopJr: Parts of a Whole              BrainPopJr: More Fractions                 Go Math! Tutorials 

Below are the Go Math! series resources for lessons 11.7 - 11.10:

Go Math! Textbook          Go Math! Standards Practice Book         

If you would like more math practice that does not involve geometry, see below:

money values          telling time practice          cross number puzzle

I have provided a key for your convenience.     

 Science

This week's optional science assignments continue our focus on life science.  We will focus on life cycles and food chains.  Watch the Bill Nye video on "Life Cycles."  You can then watch the PowerPoint on the life cycle of a frog and answer the questions on the last slide of the PowerPoint.

Bill Nye: Life Cycles          Frog Life Cycle PowerPoint     BrainPopJr: Food Chains        video: easy questions   video: hard questions

Social Studies

This week's optional social studies assignments continue our focus on economics.  We will learn about saving and spending.  Watch the BrainPopJr: video entitled "Saving and Spending" and answer the correlated questions.

BrainPopJr: Saving and Spending video          video: easy questions          video: hard questions     

If you want to learn more about saving and spending, listen to the story entitled The Berenstain Bears: The Trouble with Money and answer the correlated questions.  You can also complete an additional activity on saving.

Berenstain Bears: The Trouble with Money                    The Trouble with Money comprehension questions          Savings Poster          Savings Plan