28 noviembre 2011

2nd Bim. SCHEDULE exams & Study GUIDE

English exams are going to be held this way next weekend:
Monday Nov. 5th: SCIENCE
Tuesday Nov. 6th: ENGLISH
Wednesday Nov. 7th: READING
Thursday Nov. 8th: SPELLING
This is your 2nd Bimester Study Guide:
*Science
Chapter 5 Understanding Ecosystems
Lesson 1 What are the parts of an ecosystem?
Lesson 2 What factors influence ecosystems?
Lesson 3 How do humans affect ecosystems?

Chapter 6 Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
Lesson 1 What are the roles of living things?
Lesson 2 How do living things get energy?

Chapter 7 The Rock Cycle
Lesson 1 What are the types of rocks?
Lesson 2 What is the rock cycle?
Lesson 3 How do weathering and erosion affect rocks?
*English
Unit 3 VERBS
*Identify main verbs and helping verbs
*Identify verbs in Present (end in ‘s’), verbs in Past (end with ed), and verbs in future (are next to the word will).
*Review rules to make the present tense of the verbs. Add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’.
*Review rules to make the past tense of the verbs.
*Remember the helping verbs: have, has and had, help us to make past tense.
*HAVE is used with plural nouns and the pronoun I. HAS is used with singular nouns.
*Study IRREGULAR VERBS
*VERB to be in present and past. (am, are, is, was and were)
*Reading
Reread the lessons, study vocabulary, activities and order of the events about each of the following lessons:
-Thomas and the Library Lady
-Tanya’s Reunion
-Boss of the Plains
*Spelling
Study spelling and meaning of Basic Words from Unit 10 to Unit 17. Words for the Dictation exercise will be from UNIT 14. Pay special attention on these words!

19 noviembre 2011

Tanya's Reunion

Read about Tanya's Reunion author and play the e-word game with the key vocabulary of the lesson.
 I  hope you enjoy it as well as this looooong weekend!

11 noviembre 2011

Compound Words Puzzle

The first link is the list of the Compound Words from Unit 13 of your Spelling Book.
The second link is a puzzle that you have to print and answer using the words from the Word List Unit 13.


 http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmsv/4/wordpuzzles/wp_unit13_wordlist.pdf

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmsv/4/wordpuzzles/wp_unit13.pdf

*In case you don't have a printer handy, you can copy the sentences from the puzzle in your Homework Notebook and answer them there.
Have a nice weekend!

01 noviembre 2011

Report Card Delivery Schedule

Good afternoon dear parents!
Students' report cards will be delivery this way next week:

Elementary School
1st grade : November 8th  8:00 to 9:30 am
2nd grade: November 8th  10:00 to 11:30 am
3rd grade: November 9th   8:00 to 9:30 am
4th grade: November 9th  10:00 to 11:30 am  
5th grade: November 10th  8:00 to 9:30 am
6th grade: November 10th  10:00 to 11:30 am   

Junior High School
7th - 9th grades November 11th 8:00 am

We will really appreciate your attendance and punctuality to this meeting.

Miss Gaby Casas