Grade: 4 Final Exam Review

4th MATH AND SCIENCE ----FINAL REVIEW

I. MATH:

1. Chapter 4: Multiplication pp. 125-164
A. Vocabulary: multiplication/ factors/ product/ array/ missing factor / zero property associative property/ identity property/ commutative property/ estimated/ product / partial product

2. Chapter 5: Dividing by one digit pp. 165-202

3. Chapter 12: Dividing by two digits pp. 381-402
A. Vocabulary: divide/ divisor/ dividend/ quotient/ remainder/ compatible number/ divisible/ divisibility rules/order of operations/ average/ prime number/ composite number

4. Chapter 8: Fraction concepts pp. 265-293
A. Vocabulary: fractional parts/ numerator / denominator/ equivalent fractions/ greatest common factor/ lowest term/simplest form/ mixed number / ratio / percent

5. Chapter 7: Statistics and Probability pp. 246 - 260
A. Vocabulary: probability/ outcome/ event/ at random/ tree diagram/ combinations

6. Chapter 9: Fractions (addition and subtraction) pp. 296-311
A. Vocabulary: Common denominator/ improper fraction/ least common multiple/ least common denominator/

II. SCIENCE:

1. Chapter 1: From Cells to Ecosystems. Pp. A2-A65
A. Lessons:
• The Cells in Living Things.
• Classifying Organisms.
• Organisms of the Past
• Changes in Ecosystems
B. Vocabulary: oxygen/ organisms/ cell/ tissue/ organ/ organ system/ kingdom/ trait/ genus/ species/ fossil/ embryo/ extinct/ ecosystem/ community/ population/ habitat/ producer/ consumer/ decomposer/ food chain/ food web/ drought/ overpopulation/ pollution/ acid rain/

2. Chapter 2: Plants pp. A66-A92
A. Lessons:
• Plant Parts.
• Plant Growth and Reproduction
B. Vocabulary: root hair/ chlorophyll/ photosynthesis/ respiration/ seed / germination/ pollination/ fertilization/ ovary/ spore

3. Chapter 3: Describing Animals pp. B4-B37
A. Lessons:
• Animal Characteristics.
• Animals without backbones.
• Animals with Backbones
B. Vocabulary: vertebrate/ invertebrate/ symmetry/ echinoderm/ endoskeleton/ arthropod / exoskeleton/ cold-blooded/ warm-blooded/ amphibian/ reptile/ mammal

4. Chapter 4: Life Processes, pp. B44-B73
A. Lessons:
• Organ Systems
• Development and Reproduction
• Animal survival
B. Vocabulary: circulatory system/ respiratory system/ excretory system/
Digestive system/ nervous system/ skeletal system/ muscular system/
Metamorphosis/ life cycle/ reproduction/ heredity/ camouflage/ adaptation/
Inherited behavior/ instinct/ learned behavior/

Science review questions:

1. A. Define organism.
B. List and describe the five basic life functions of living
Things?

2. A. What kind of clues do fossils give about organisms of the past?
B. Why do scientists study rock layers and embryos of different organisms?

3. A. What is an ecosystem?
B. How is a community, population, and habitat alike and different?
C. Name two causes that can change an ecosystem?

4. A. What is ecology?
B. How do living and nonliving things in an ecosystem interact with each other? C. Create a food chain.

5. A. How are organs formed?
B. Name three important organs in your body and describe the job each one performs?

Grade: 3 Final Exam Review

3rd MATH AND SCIENCE
FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2009

I. MATH:
1. Chapter 9: Geometry pp. 289-306
A. Vocabulary: fact family / polygon / triangle/ square/ rectangle/ pentagon/ hexagon circle/ quadrilateral/ line segment/ ray/ parallel lines/ intersecting lines/ angle/ right angle/ congruent figures/ similar figures/ ordered pair/ line of symmetry/ slide/ flip/ turn/ face/ edge/ cylinder/ sphere/ cone/ perimeter/ acute angle/ obtuse angle

2. Chapter 4: Multiplication concepts and facts pp. 134-162
A. Vocabulary: front-end estimation/ round/ multiple

3. Chapter 8: Multiplication and Division Facts pp. 254-288
A. Vocabulary: factor / product/ array/ area/ fact family

4. Chapter 10: Multiplication pp. 321-328
A. Vocabulary: factors/ multiplication/ product/ array/ missing factor/ associative property identity property/ commutative property/ zero property

5. Chapter 5: Division concepts and facts pp. 163-188
Chapter 11: Division pp. 347-356
Vocabulary: divide/ dividend / divisor/ quotient / related facts / remainder

6. Addition and subtraction up to 6 digit numbers.

II. SCIENCE:
1. Chapter 1: Plants pp. A2-A35
A. Lessons:
• How Living things are alike?
• The Needs of Plants.
• The Life Cycle of a Plant.
B. Vocabulary: Organism / reproduction/ environment/ respond/ cell/ mineral/ root / stem/ leaf/ energy/ oxygen/ life cycle/ embryo/ heredity/ flowering plant/ conifer/ interpret/ Cuttings/ spores/ bulb/ tubers

2. Chapter 2: Animals pp. A38-A75
A. Lessons:
• What are the needs of animals?
• How do animals grow?
• What are the parts of animals?
• Kinds of animals.
B. Vocabulary: shelter/ migrate/ hibernate/ metamorphosis/ inherited trait/ learned trait/ tissue/ organ system / fish/ amphibian/ reptile/ bird/ mammal

3. Chapter 3: Relationships Among Living Things, pp. B2-B37
A. Lessons:
• What makes up an ecosystem?
• What habitats are found in a pond?
• How is a community different from a population
• What makes up a food chain?
• How are materials recycled?
• Compare Contrast food chain and food web.
• How do living things use air?
• How do populations depend and affect each other?
B. Vocabulary: ecosystem/ community/ population/ habitat/ producer/ consumer/
Food chain/ food web/ decomposers/ energy pyramid/ prey/
Predator/ scavenger/ parasite/ host

Final exam review questions:

1. A.What do plants need from the environment to grow?
B. How do plants respond to the environment? Give two examples.
C. Draw a plant: label five parts and describe each parts job.

2. A. What are the needs of animals?
B. How do animals meet their needs?

3. Choose one: plant cell or animal cell. Draw and label their parts

4. A. Why are bees attracted to flowers?
B. How do they help plants reproduce?

5. A. What is an ecosystem?
B. How is a community and population alike and different?

Grade: 2 Final Exam Review

2nd Math and Science
Final Exam Review 2009
I. MATH:
1. Chapter 4: Addition two digit numbers (pages 153-191)
Vocabulary:
• addition sentence
• digit
• regroup
• estimate
• round

2. Chapter 5: Subtraction two digit numbers (pages 193-243)
Vocabulary:
• whole
• related fact
• fact family

3. Chapter 6: Geometry (pages 247 - 265)
Vocabulary:
• solid figure vertex
• flat surface plane figure
• face angle
• edge
• pentagon Congruent

4. Chapter 7: Money and Time (pages 289 – 336)
Vocabulary:
• half-dollar elapsed time
• Second quarter-hour
• week one dollar
• month change
• year equal amounts

5. Chapter 8: Place value to 1000 (pages 347 – 379)
Vocabulary:
• 3-digit number hundred flat
• ten rod place-value chart
• ones unit

6. Chapter 9: Addition /Subtraction Three Digit Numbers.
Vocabulary:
• 10 ones=1 ten 10 dimes = 1 dollar
• 10 tens=1 hundred
• 10 pennies=1 dime

7. Chapter 12: Multiplication only (pages 547 – 559)
Vocabulary:
• Multiply /Multiplication
• Factor
• Product
• Repeated addition


II. SCIENCE
1. Chapter 1 : Plants pp. A2-A29
A. Lessons:
• Plants are living things.
• Parts of Plants.
• Plants Make new Plants.
• Everyone needs plants.
B. Vocabulary:
• minerals oxygen
• flower life cycle
• fruit
• seeds
• pollen

2. Chapter 2 : Animals pp. A30-A54
A. Lessons:
• All Kinds of Animals.
• Animals meet their needs.
• Animals Grow and Change.
B. Vocabulary:
• mammals prey pupa
• reptiles food chain
• amphibians shelter
• predator larva

3. Chapter 3: Land Habitats pp.b4-b25
A. Lessons:
• Where plants and animals live. -Life in the Arctic
• Life in the Woodland forest.
• Life in the Rainforest.
• Life in the Desert..
B. Vocabulary:
• habitat rain forest
• woodland forest desert
• migrate arctic

Science final exam review questions:

1. A. Explain why do plants grow well in a rain forest and in a woodland forest?
B. What are two animals that live in each forest?
C. How do they get what they need?

2. List and describe the four stages butterflies go through in their life cycle.

3. A. What is a habitat? B. What do animals get from their habitats?

4. A. What are the needs of plants? B. Draw and label the six parts of a plant. C. Describe how each part helps the plant.

Grade: 2 Week of 5/25/09

Grade: 2
Math

5/25
MEMORIAL DAY: SCHOOL CLOSED

5/26
Aim: Students will continue to practice multiplication of 1's, 2's, and 3's.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work:
* Problem of the day: 547g #3
* Students use counters to model multiplication
* workbook p. 161

5/27
Aim: Students will solve problems by visualizing and modeling out solutions.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* problem of the day: 547g #4
* text p. 555-556

5/28
Aim: Students will practice multiplying by four.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* problem of the day: 547g #5
* readiness activity: t.e. p. 557
* text p. 557-558 #1-15/ problem solving #16-19
3. Homework: workbook p. 161

5/29
MAY PROCESSION

Grade: 2
Science

5/25
MEMORIAL DAY: SCHOOL CLOSED

5/26
Aim: Students will investigate and describe the different animals that live in a desert.
Vocabulary: desert
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* What is a desert?
* List and describe the different animals that live in a desert.
* How do animals keep cool when the sun is hot?

5/27
Aim: Students will investigate and describe the different plants that live in a desert.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* What plants live in the desert?
* How does the shape of a plant help it live?
* workbook p. 81-82

5/28
Aim: Students will compare and contrast a woodland forest, rain forest, and desert habitat.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Smartboard images of three habitats.
3. Class-work:
* compare three different land habitats.
* workbook p. 79-80

5/29
Aim: Students will review life in a desert.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work:
* text p. b21 #1-2
* workbook p. 83

Grade: 3 Week of 5/25/09

Grade: 3
Math

5/25
Memorial Day: school closed

5/26
Aim: Students will recognize division patterns by estimating quotients.
Vocabulary: dividend divisor quotient
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Problem of the day: p. 347E #1
* Text p. 348-349 #21-29

5/27
Aim: Students will continue to recognize division patterns and estimate quotoients.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* problem of the day: p. 347e #2
* Use counters to model division problems
* Estimate quotients: text p. 348-349, #1-20

5/28
Aim: Students will explore division with remainders.
Vocabulary: Remainder division
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Problem of the day: p. 347e #3
* Workbook p. 123 (even numbers)
* Use counters to model division problem, text p. 350 #1-13
3. Homework: workbook p. 123

5/29
MAY PROCESSION

Grade: 3
Science

5/25
MEMORIAL DAY

5/26
Aim: How are materials recycled?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab activity: Decomposers, text p. b19

5/27
Aim: Students will review food chains and food webs.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* workbook p. 71-72
* text p. b23 #1-5
3. Homework: workbook p. 67-68

5/28
Aim: TEST: FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS
(rescheduled, Monday, June 1st)

5/29
EARLY DISMISSAL

Grade: 4 week of 5/25/09

5/25
MEMORIAL DAY: NO SCHOOL

5/26
Aim: Students will predict the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome at random event
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day; text p. 293i #7
3. Class-work:
* text p. 252-253 #1-6
4. Homework: text p. 251 Choose one problem, copy and show your work on loos-leaf.

5/27
Aim: Students will tell which of two events is more likely or less likely to occur.
Vocabulary: more likely less likely equally likely
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 84

5/28
Aim: Students will predict event outcomes
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* problem of the day: t.e. text p. 345g
* probability game
3. homework: workbook p. 85

5/29
MAY PROCESSSION

Grade: 4
SCIENCE

5/26
Aim: Students will continue to identify and describe characteristics of animals?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss text p. b7
* What do all animals have in common?
* workbook p. 63

5/27
Aim: students will compare and contrast characteristics of animals including the presence and absence of a backbone and symmetry.
Vocabulary: vertebrate invertebrate symmetry
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work: Read/discuss text pgs. b8-b9
* How are animals different?
* What is symmetry?
* List and compare animals on pg. b8-b9
3. Homework: workbook p. 64

5/28
Students will observe and identify characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss: text p. b6-b7
-How are animals alike? -Describe a food chain.
-Explain the flow of energy through a food chain.
-What role do decomposers play in this food chain?
-Do we get our energy from the Sun? If so, how?

5/29
Aim: Students will explore how animals are different by comparing and determining each one's symmetry.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab activity: Animal symmetry, text p. b10

6/1
Aim: Students will review the characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Lesson review
* Text p. b11 copy why it matters and do questions 1-5
* workbook p. 65-66

Grade: 2 Week of 5/18/09

Grade: 2
Math

5/18
Aim: Students will explore the concept of multiplication as repeated addition.3
Vocabulary: multiplication equal groups repeated addition
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Practice adding two digits with regrouping: text p. 602
3. Class-work:
* Introduction to multiplication: smartboard presentation
* text p. 549 #1-11
4.

5/19
Aim: Students will demonstrate the concept of multiplication by modeling.
Vocabulary: factor product
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 547g #1
3. Practice subtraction of two digit: text p. 603
4. Students will use blocks or counters to create equal groups
5. Homework: workbook p. 159

5/20
Aim: Students will practice multiplying by twos.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 547g #2
3. Practice writing/interpreting data on a graph
4. Class-work:
* Text p. 551-552 #1 -12
5. Homework: workbook p. 160

5/21
Aim: Students will practice multiplying by three's.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p, 547g #3
3. review/practice comparing and ordering numbers: text p. 600
4. Class-work:
* text p. 553-554 #1-14
5. Homework: workbook p. 161

5/22
Aim: Students will solve problems by visualizing and modeling.
lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. practice addition/subtraction three digit numbers: text p. 607
3. Class-work:
* text p. 555-556


Grade: 2
Science

5/18
Aim: Students will explore how animals find shelter in a rain forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab: How can a rain forest animal find shelter? text p. b15
3. Homework: workbook p.75-76

5/19
Aim: Students will review life in a rain forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Why do plants and trees grow so well in a rain forest?
* How do animals find shelter in a rain forest?
* Compare woodland forest and rain forest.
* rain forest habitat video

5/20
TEST: LIFE IN A RAIN FOREST.
(rescheduled for tomorrow

5/21
Aim: Students will investigate and describe the different animals that live in a desert.
Vocabulary: desert
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* What is a desert?
* List and describe the different animals that live in a desert.
* How do animals keep cool when the sun is hot?

5/22
Aim: Students will investigate and describe the different plants that live in a desert.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* What plants live in the desert?
* How does the shape of a plant help it live?
* workbook p. 81-82
*

Grade 3: Week of 5/18/09

Grade: 3
Math

5/18
Aim: students will solve problems using the working backwards strategy.
Vocabulary: working backwards
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 337 #41-44
3. Class-work:
* Lesson readiness activity, t.e. text p. 340
* problem-solving: text p. 341 #1-5
4. Homework: workbook p. 122

5/19
Gym class

5/20
TEST: Chapter 10, MULTIPLICATION
(rescheduled for Thursday, 5/20)

5/21
ACENSION THURSDAY: SCHOOL MASS

5/22
Aim: Students will estimate quotients.
Vocabulary: dividend divisor estimate
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 347e #1
3. Class-work:
* Lesson readiness activity
* text p. 348-349 #1-20


Grade: 3
Science

5/18
Aim: Students will explore how decomposers break down dead matter.
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read text p. b18-b19
* How are materials recycled?
* What is the job of a decomposer?
* Why are decomposers needed?
* List some decomposers.

5/19
Aim: Students will trace the flow of energy through a food chain and food web.
Vocabulary: food web
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss text p. b20-b21
* What is a food web?
* Why are food webs more accurate than food chains in showing what animals eat?
* What is the difference between a food chain and food web?

5/20.
Aim: What is an energy pyramid?
Vocabulary: energy pyramid
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss text p. b22
* what is an energy pyramid?
* Are there more producers or consumers in an ecosystem?
* workbook p. 70
3. Homework: workbook p. 71 and 72

5/21
Aim: How are materials recycled?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
Lab activity: Decomposers, text p. b19
3. Homework: text p.b23 questions #1-5

5/22
EARLY DISMISSAL

grade 4: week of 5/18/09

Grade: 4
Math

5/18
Aim: Students will find numbers of combinations using tree diagrams or multiplication.
Vocabulary: tree diagram combination
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 239i #6
3. Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 250
4. Class-work:
* text p. 250 -251 #1-3

5/19
Aim: Students will continue to find numbers of combinations.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental Math: text p. 480 set 10, # 8 & 10
3. Class-work: text p. 251
4. Homework: workbook p. 83

5/20
Aim: Students will predict the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome at random event
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day; text p. 293i #7
3. Class-work:
* text p. 252-253 #1-6
4. Homework: text p. 251 Choose one problem, copy and show your work on loos-leaf.

5/21
Ascension Thursday
Aim: Mass at 9 am

5/22
Aim: Students will tell which of two events is more likely or less likely to occur.
Vocabulary: more likely less likely equally likely
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 84


Grade: 4
Science

5/18
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by consumers and decomposers.
Vocabulary: food chain food web
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss pgs. a48-a49
*A. What is a food chain?
The set of steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive.
*B. What is a consumer?
A consumer is any Organism that eats producers or other consumers, to obtain energy.
*C. What are decomposers?
Organisms that break down living and dead matter into simple chemicals they use for food. The rest gets recycled into the soil.
-Bacteria –Fungi -Worms -Snails –mold etc.

5/19
Aim: Students will trace the path of energy in a food chain and food web.
Vocabulary: food chain food web
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read and discuss text p. a50-a51
* What is a food web?
* How do food chains and food webs relate?

5/20
Aim: Students will review organisms and where they live.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* workbook p. 27-28
* text p. a51 questions #1-5
3. Homework: workbook p. 23-24 answers only

5/21
TEST: ORGANISMS AND WHERE THEY LIVE.

5/22
Students will observe and identify characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss: text p. b6-b7
-How are animals alike? -Describe a food chain.
-Explain the flow of energy through a food chain.
-What role do decomposers play in this food chain?
-Do we get our energy from the Sun? If so, how?

Grade: 3 Week of 5/11/09

Grade: 3
Math:

5/11
Aim: Students will multiply two digit numbers by one-digit with regrouping
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: problem solving t.e. text p. 329
3. Class-work:
* text p. 329 # 10-24 even/ #33-41
4. Homework: workbook p.118

5/12
SCORING OF NYS SCIENCE TEST GRADE 8

5/13
Aim: Students will continue to multiply two digit numbers by one digit regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 321E #4
3. Class-work:
* text p. 331 #1-25 odd & 26-28
4. Homework: workbook p. 119

5/14
Aim: Students will multiply three digit numbers by one digit with and without regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: p. 321e #5
3. Class-work:
* text p. 333 #21-30 & p. 335 #1-10
4. Homework: workbook p. 120 #1-15 & 21-22

5/15
Aim: Students will continue to multiply three digit numbers with regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text 321e #6-7
3. Class-work:
* text p. 337 16-25, 31-44
***** TEST, Chapter 10: Multiplication ***** Wednesday, May 20th ******

Grade: 3
Science

5/11
TEST: Ecosystem

5/12
SCORING OF NYS SCIENCE TEST GRADE 8

5/13
Aim: What makes up a food chain?
Vocabulary: producers consumers food chain
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss text p. b16-b17
* What is a producer? Give examples.
* What is a consumer? Give examples.
* Describe a desert and ocean food chain.
3. Homework: workbook p. 69

5/14
Aim: Students will explain the role of decomposers.
Vocabulary: decomposers
lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss text p. b18-b19
* How do decomposers affect their environment?
* Why are decomposers important?
* Give examples of decomposers.
3. Homework: workbook p. 70 Loose-leaf/ questions and answers

5/15
EARLY DISMISSAL

Grade 2: Week of 5/11/09

Grade: 2
Math

5/11
Aim: Students will choose a strategy to solve word problems.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* text p. 429-430 #1-10
3. Homework: workbook p. 125

5/12
SCORING OF NYS GRADE 8 SCIENCE TEST

5/13
Aim: Students will make a connection between math and the real world, by working with 3 digit numbers in real situations presented in table format.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2.
3. Class-work:
* text p. 432
4. Homework: textbook p. 427-428 and workbook p. 126

5/14
Aim: Students will practice and review adding/subtracting three digit numbers with regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. quiz: text p. 431
3. Class-work:
* sadlier-oxford.com grade 2 practice activity chapter 9

5/15
TEST: CHAPTER 9 ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION THREE DIGIT NUMBERS

Grade 2
Science

5/11
Aim: Students will explore how animals find shelter in a rain forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab: How can a rain forest animal find shelter? text p. b15
3. Homework: workbook p.75-76

5/12
SCORING OF NYS GRADE 8 SCIENCE TEST

5/13
Aim: Students will explore what is a forest like by creating a model of a woodland forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: What is a forest like? text p. b9

5/14
Aim: Students will describe the different rain forest animals meet their needs.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work:
* What lives in a rain forest?
* How do the animals get what they need?
* Think and write questions,(text p. b16-b17)
3. Homework: workbook p. 73-74

5/15
Aim: Students will review life in a rain forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Review homework assignment
* workbook p. 77-78
* Reading book: Nature's Green Umbrella
3. ***** TEST: LIFE IN A RAIN FOREST ***** Wednesday, MAY 20TH ******

Grade: 4 week of 5/11/09

Grade: 4
Math:

5/11
Aim: Students will read and interpret line graphs.
Vocabulary: line graph Horizontal axis vertical axis
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* reading and interpreting data, text p. 246-247 #1-10
3. Homework: text p. 247 #11-18

5/12
Aim: Students will collect and represent data on a line graph
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day; text p. 239i #4
3. Class-work:
* smartboard activity: line graphs
* collect data create own line graph
4. Homework: workbook p. 81

5/13
Aim: Students will find numbers of combinations using tree diagrams or multiplication.
Vocabulary: tree diagram combination
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 239i #6
3. Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 250
4. Class-work:
* text p. 250 -251 #1-6

5/14
Aim: Students will continue to find numbers of combinations.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental Math: text p. 480 set 10, # 8 & 10
3. Class-work: workbook p. 83
4. Homework: text p. 475 test #7, problems #1-8 notebook

5/15
Aim: Students will predict the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome at random event
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day; text p. 293i #7
3. Class-work:
* text p. 252-253 #1-6

Grade: 4
Science

5/11
TEST: ORGANISMS OF THE PAST

5/12
SCORING OF 8TH GRADE NYS SCIENCE TEST

5/13
Aim:Students will describe how living and nonliving things interact in the environment.
Vocabulary: ecosystem community population habitat
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Class-work: Read/discuss p. a40-a41
* What makes up an ecosystem?
* How do living and nonliving things interact?
3. Homework: workbook p. 25

5/14
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Vocabulary: producer consumer decomposer
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss p. a46-a49
* Identify the different roles organisms play?
* Give examples of producers.
* How do producers affect their environment?

5/15
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by consumers and decomposers.
Vocabulary: food chain
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss pgs. a48-a49
* What is a food chain?
* What is a consumer?
* How are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores different?
* Why are decomposers so important in an ecosystem?
*****TEST: ORGANISMS AND WHERE THEY LIVE ON TUESDAY, MAY 19TH*****

Grade: 4 Week of 5/4/09

Grade: 4
Math

5/4
Aim: Students will solve problems involving fractions by using various strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Brain builder p. 475 test 8, #15
* Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 290
* Problem-solving: text p. 290 #1-3

5/5
Aim: Students will continue to solve problems using various strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Reducing fractions to simplest form
* Converting improper fractions and mixed numbers
* Problem solving: text p. 291 #4-6

5/6
Aim: Students will express ratios as percents and percents as fractions.
Vocabulary: percent ratio
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Review comparing fractions< text p. 291 #11-15
* Ratio and percent< text p. 293 #1-14
3. Homework: text p. 291 #9-12

5/7
Aim: Students will review fraction concepts
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Problem-solving: t.e. text p. 293
* smartboard activity: sadlier-oxford.com/grade 4/fractions

5/8
Test: Chapter 8 Fraction Concepts


Grade: 4
SCIENCE

5/4
Aim: Students will investigate and infer reasons organisms can become extinct.
Vocabulary: extinct endangered
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Read/discuss text p. a34
* Why do organisms become extinct
* Why do you think so many organisms no longer exist?
* How do people contribute to the extinction of plants and animals?
3. Homework: workbook p. 21

5/5
Aim: Students will explore how skeletons are used to help compare organisms.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab activity:How ca we use skeletons to compare organisms?
Activity workbook p. 13-15

5/6
Aim: Students will review organisms of the past.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* lesson review: text p. a35 questions #1-5
* workbook p. 17-18

5/7
TEST: Organisms of the Past (rescheduled for Monday 5/11)

5/8
Aim: Students will observe and identify characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss: text p. b6-b7
-How are animals alike? -Describe a food chain.
-Explain the flow of energy through a food chain.
-What role do decomposers play in this food chain?
-Do we get our energy from the Sun? If so, how?

Grade: 3 Week of 5/4/09

Grade: 3
Math:

5/4
Aim: Students will multiply two digit number by one digit with no regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: text p. 321e #2
3. Class-work: text p. 324-325 #1-22
4. Homework: workbook p. 115 #1-32 (odd numbers only on loose-leaf)

5/5
Aim: NYS ESLAT TESTING

5/6
Aim: NYS ESLAT TESTING

5/7
Aim: Students will continue to multiply two digit number with one digit.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental Math: p. 466 set 24 #2
3. Class-work: text p. 325 #23-36
4. Homework: workbook p. 116

5/8
Aim: Students will multiply 2-digit number by a 1-digit number, regrouping once.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: * Mental math activity p. 466 set 22 #1
* Readiness activity, t.e. text p. 328
* Multiplying/regrouping, text p. 328-329 #1-14, 25-32, & 37-39.

Grade: 3
SCIENCE:

5/4
Aim: Students will explore why living things live where they do.
Vocabulary: ecosystem community population habitat
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Review the different habitats found in a pond
3. Class-work: What habitats are found in a pond? tex p. b8-b9
* Draw a pond ecosystem
* list and describe the different habitats and populations found their
* What is an ecosystem?
* How can a pond ecosystem provide different habitats?
* Describe one food chain.

5/5
Aim: What makes up a forest community?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: skill builder activity, p. b10
3. Homework: workbook p. 62

5/6
Aim: Students will review lesson on what makes up an ecosystem?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* What makes up a forest community , continued....text p. B10

5/7
TEST: What Makes up an ecosystem? (Rescheduled for Monday 5/11)
Aim: Students will continue to review what makes up an ecosystem.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Textbook p. B10-B11
3. Homework: text p. B11 -copy why it matters -Do questions #1-3 (notebook)

5/8
EARLY DISMISSAL

Grade: 2 Week of 5/4/09

Grade: 2
MATH:

5/4
Aim: Students will estimate sums and differences of 3 digit numbers.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: *376 + 589 = ______
*624 - 457 = ______
3. Class-work: problem solving/estimating sums and differences worksheet
4. Homework: textbook pgs. 423-424

5/5
Aim: Students will be taking the NYS ESLAT Test.

5/6
Aim: Students will continue taking the NYS ESLAT Test.

5/7
Aim: Students will use logical reasoning to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 427
3. Class-work: text p. 427-428 #1-8

5/8
Aim: Students will choose a strategy to solve word problems.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* text p. 429-430 #1-10
* workbook p. 125


Grade: 2
SCIENCE

5/4
Aim: students will review what makes up a woodland forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work: * Video: Woodland Explorer, observe and create a forest.
* Smartboard activity: Habitats
* workbook p. 71 and 72
* text p. B13 #1-2

5/5
Aim: Students will explore what is a forest like by creating a model of a woodland forest.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: What is a forest like? text p. b9
3. Class-work: workbook p. 67-68

5/6
Aim: Students will explore what is a forest like by creating a model of a woodland forest, continued.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: What is a forest like? text p. b9

5/7
TEST: What makes up a Woodland Forest?

5/8
Aim: Students will describe a rain forest habitat.
Vocabulary: rain forest
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss pgs. b16-b17
* Describe a rain forest.
* What are some animals that live in a rain forest?
* How do these rain forest animals get what they need?