Cusick Elementary

Title I School Program

This week’s homework:

Reading - 120 minutes of reading outside of school. Log is due on Wednesday; new log sent home on Wednesday.

Math – Monday: R8-12 – due Tuesday

            Tuesday: Writing Day – no homework

            Wednesday: R8-13 – due Thursday (LAST math homework assignment!)

Spelling – Words with Greek roots. Test on Thursday.

Week of May 20-24, 2013

Reading

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest (expository nonfiction); “On Top of the World” (poetry).

Focus skill: fact or opinion. Focus strategy: summarize.

Additional skill development with SRA Reading Laboratory

Math

Review adding, subtracting, multiplying fractions and mixed numbers. Test on Thursday.

Additional individualized skill development using the ALEKS computer program.

Spelling

Words with Greek roots: astronomy, disaster, asterisk, astronaut, asteroid, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chronological, synchronize, cyclical, bicyclist, cyclone, encyclopedia, hydrogen, hydrant, hydrate, optic, optician, optical

Writing/Social Studies

Finishing research for Wax Museum; drafting biographical reports

Science

Earth science review: plant parts; composting.