Eldridge Assignments: Science, Language, Reading

Date

Language (all 5th graders)

Reading (Eldridge class only)

Science (all 5th graders)

Mon. June 7

Mac Lab: add final pictures and make final corrections to your Writing About the Badger Trip I'll try to print it for you in color.

Final Keyboard test and grade

Check this site endangered species and our Badger site

Unit 6 Test as directed

Take your time. This is your last reading/language test. A few people have this test to finish. Others may read silently.

Clean out and turn in these books:
Explore and Science 5

Check e-parks for endangered species (Thanks for finding this great link, Brooke Taylor) http://www.eparks.org/

endangered species

Take your writing folder home. Show your parents. Save it! You'll treasure it in another 20 years.

Tues. June8

Mac Lab: Writing memories (Garden Sprit Award . Michigan Adventure, S.S. Skits, Dance program, Talent show, etc.)

Science Seekers: Endangered Species Investigation 2. Use CD "How does a species survive?"

Field Day starts at 12 noon

Dress for an afternoon outdoors, and don't forget the sun screen!

Wed. June 9

Mac Lab: Writing memories (Michigan Adventure, S.S. Skits, Dance program, Talent show, etc.)

PLUS 30 minutes Free Time

Clean your locker and desk. Take home ALL items that belong to you. Your desk and locker should be empty at the end of the day.

Endangered Species game: this time we play it the "hard way"

Dismissal at 1:40 p.m.

Thurs. June 10

Mac Lab: Writing memories (Michigan Adventure, Dance program, Talent show, etc.) I'll be using some of this on the web so check back during the summer. Your class has a home page for every year you have been at Onekama School.

PLUS 30 minutes Free Time

Saying Good-bye and thank you for being my favorite "last fifth grade class"

Certificates and report cards will be given out in the afternoon

Dismissal at 1:40 p.m.

Date	Language (all 5th graders)	Reading (Eldridge class only)	Science (all 5th graders)
Mon. May 31	Memorial Day:	No School
Tues. June 1	Safety Patrol	to Michigan Adventure	Sorry, but we will not be having a spelling list for this week.
Wed. June 2	Badger Trip Wear layered clothes. The air is cold out in the middle of Lake Michigan!	You may bring a sack lunch or a small cooler. We will have an area where we can keep things.	You may bring money for food or gifts, but this is not necessary. Badger Information: You Wrote It!
Thurs. June 3	Type 2: Write about The Badger Science Seekers: Endangered Species Investigation 2. Use CD "How does a species survive?"	Unit 6 Test as directed Take your time. This is your last reading/language test. Do your best.	Science: Lab 2 Yeast Population Observations need ice water yeast hot water
Fri. June 4	Type 3: Improve your Type 2 on the Badger. Type it and add a photograph taken during the trip. I will try to get them printed in color for your Writing Folder. Writing folders will go home June 7th Writing About the Badger Trip	Unit 6 Test as directed Check e-parks for endangered species (Thanks for finding this great link, Brooke Taylor) http://www.eparks.org/ endangered species	Use Laptop Computer for Orchard Continue Pollution or check on endangered species We will celebrate Summer Birthdays: If you have a summer birthday and wish to bring a treat for the afternoon, you may do so

Date

Language (all 5th graders)

Reading (Eldridge class only)

Science (all 5th graders)

Mon. May 24

My Group: Complete research on "your artist". Carefully read Ms Woolman's FCA's and type your report. MY ART

Miss Bishop's Group: Write on being a Peacemaker (your text is at the bottom of the page, under the full fifth grade class picture)

New Spelling List

Use Science Magazines: Super Science or Tracks

Science: Test over Hidden in Rocks
investigation 1/ investigation 2, / investigation 3, from last week

Read parts A-D on Endangered Species

Tues. May 25

Science Seekers: Endangered Species Investigation 1. Use CD "How do living things interact?"

Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboarding

Read "Mistakes that Worked" starting on page 550

Silently read being sure to finish all AR requirements.

Science: Continue Endangered Species

Use Science Magazines: Tracks on Bats

Wed. May 26

Watch movie about the Badger

take notes
write a type 2 about SS Badger

Look up SS Badger on the Internet and add to your notes. Read what students wrote last year

Read "Willie Bea...." beginning on page 556

Discuss War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

NOTE CHANGES for Wed. - Friday

More about the Badger

add to your notes
Complete your type 2 about SS Badger

Thurs. May27

Turn your notes into a Type 3 I suggest paragraph on Badger history, what people can do on the Badger, or size. Include 5 facts in each of two paragraphs
Mac Lab: Use 4A-4F for keyboard testing.

Conservatory of Dance will perform for students in gym. 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Continue Endangered Species with National Geographic Video "America's Endangered Species: Don't say Good-bye"

Fri. May 28

Complete, proofread and Print your Badger Paper. You may use a picture.

Mac Lab: finish any keyboard testing.

Looking Ahead:
Memorial Day May 31,
Safety to Mich. Adv. June 1
Badger Trip June 2
Field Day June 8

Use Orchard "Pollution". Do as many of the videos as you can then take the "review" consisting of 10 questions.

Date

Language (all 5th graders)

Reading (Eldridge class only)

Science (all 5th graders)

Mon. May 17

Mac Lab: Begin Science Seekers: Hidden in Rocks, investigation 1. Use CD to discover "How does uplift change the Earth's surface?"

Begin reading Trapped in Tar

What do you already know?
New words

Science:

Girls Only Day
Boys only Day

Tues. May 18

Lab 1 of Hidden in Rocks, investigation 1

Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboard practice using lessons 10-13 and if necessary continue CD part 1

Continue Trapped in Tar

Note sequence
Relate to Hidden in Rocks
There is also an AR test

Science:

AIDS and other STD's
Review communicable and non communicable diseases

Wed. May 19

Science Seekers: Hidden in Rocks, investigation 2, "Which Rocks Contain Fossils?
Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboard practice using lessons 10-13.

Reading non-fiction compared to reading fiction. Use your time to re-read Tar or the sheets from Science Seekers: Hidden in Rocks,

investigation 2, of Hidden in Rocks,

Make models of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock using wax

Thurs. May 20

Science Seekers: Hidden in Rocks, investigation 3, "How does erosion change the landscape?" Take your time and read carefully. Test on Monday

Quiz over Trapped in Tar

When done continue reading investigation 3 to prepare for the lab during science class

Do Investigation 3, of Hidden in Rocks, Demonstrate how erosion changes the landscape.

Friday we will use Orchard

Fri. May 21

Type 2: What I learned from the Science Seekers

Note: Monday there will be a test over the 3 Hidden in Rocks activities.

You may check any of the Science Seekers: Hidden in Rocks investigation for information.

Looking Ahead:
Spring Sing May 26 at 7 pm
Memorial Day May 31,
Safety Patrol to Michigan Adventure June 1
Badger Trip June 2
Field Day June 8

Today:
Rep. Palsrok will meet with Peace Makers for an award May 21 at 9 o'clock. Students will pose with Rep. Palsrok as he presents the MASB award for service

Date	Language (all 5th graders)	Reading (Eldridge class only)	Science (all 5th graders)
Mon. May 10	Turn your Type 2 Book Bowl Writing into an essay. Make it interesting by including details. Include at least one quote. Add a photograph from global shared. Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboarding	New Spelling List Begin "McBroom tells the Truth" Reading a Tall Tale / fantasy / exaggeration / amazing deeds New Vocabulary	Science: Puberty is a time of change. Movie, notes, and discussion Safety Week: Last week we learned about boat safety / fitness / exercise / sexual exploitation / good nutrition / fire safety. Use this information to lead a safer life
Tues. May 11	Lessons: Bringing Writing Folders up to date Homesteading / Complete your Book Bowl Report Type 2 Writing: Onekama's Fire Fighters	"McBroom tells the Truth"	Science: The reproductive system corectly identify medical terms locations and functions of the reproductive systems.
Wed. May 12	Lessons: Choose two of the writings in your writing to improve. Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboard / Testing 4A-F	"McBroom tells the Truth"	Science: The reproductive system: Correctly identify medical terms locations and functions of the reproductive systems.
Thurs. May 13	Type 2 Writing: Continue improvements Mac Lab: 20 minutes of Keyboard, followed by testing	Quiz over "McBroom tells the Truth" Be sure to take AR tests over McBroom and any Book Bowl books you have read.	Science: Pregnancy and birth Science Olympiad 3:15 at Kennedy School May 13
Fri. May 14	Mac Lab: finish any keyboard testing. Improve and print one Type 2 writing.		Use Orchard's Human Body Science Lessons