January 7, 2011 Day Seventy-Eight

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

5 Vocabulary

1. Allegiance: The loyalty of the citizen to his or her government

2. Assembly: An assembling or coming together of a number of people usually for particular purpose

3. Secular: Not pertaining to or connected with religion

4. Mandible: The lower jaw bone that allows you to eat and speak

5. Cementum: Below the gum including the roots teeth are covered with the cementum

1. Sentences
   

1. Every day at School in the morning we said the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.

2. We had 2 Assembly's each year at the assembly we would do the Coffin cheer. (Hey that rhymes)

3. The pilgrims were sort of Secular but still had the fort has a church.

4. The Mandible and the maxillary are both parts of the jaw.

5. It's important to brush your teeth and to keep your cementum clean.

5 Facts & Details

1. I can type my name without looking at the keyboard, "Sophie!"

2. My favorite book is The Phantom Tollbooth.

3. Zues is about 3 times bigger than when we first got him

4. The largest millipede has exactly 256 legs

5. The largest wasp nest has a circumference of 18 feet.

5 Questions

1. What was the document necessary to request approval to establish a colony? A: "The Seven Articles"

2. How many men, women, and children passengers were on board the Mayflower? A: 50 men, 19 women and 33 children

3. Who was the Master or Captain of the Mayflower? A: Captain Jones

4. Which passenger was saved after being washed overboard during a storm? A: John Howland

5. What did the Pilgrims have for food on the voyage? A: Dry meat and fish

5 Math from Fraction Stories, Skill 7, set 2 Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

1. 1 ½ = 3 /2

2. 2 2/3 = 8/3

3. 4 5/6 = 29/6

4. 10 1/3 = 31/3

5. 12 1/6 = 73/6

Activities:

Unit Overview cont. & Letters, Video Templates, & Calendar reviewed.

Math Workbook 1 page Sylvan Multidigit Multiplication & 1 page Guinness

Gray's Anatomy Jaw & teeth

Silent Reading Chapter 9 "It's All in How You Look at Things" in The Phantom Tollbooth. "Milo, Tok and the Humbug were off on the quest to find Rhyme and Reason, the princesses of the world and on their way they Alec Bings who walks three feet off of the ground and his special talent is to look a different way at things."

Library visit with Caca & Sophie supervised Lily for story & craft time.

Courtney worked with us (with assistance from the children's librarians) in choosing the following books for our new unit.

Library Books:

Colonial Life for Children: Video; Jamestown: While doing research for a school project about Jamestown he gets zapped into the internet and lands in the historic site itself. He talks to the Men and women there to answer his questions for his project.

Growing up in Colonial America: This book describes what it was like to be a child back in the colonial days.

Life in Colonial America: This story tells all about the settlement in Jamestown all the way down to the early revolution.

Salem Days: This story by James E. Night as in the title tells about Salem Days and Joshua Silsbee's Journey to Salem.

Standing in the light: The Diary of a young Colonial girl, Carey Logan and her life as a colonial American Girl.

Homes in the wilderness: A Pilgrims journal of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 by William Bradford.

From Colonies to Country: The Revolutionary war! The Americans fight for freedom against the British with George Washington leading the way to becoming one of the biggest moments in American History.

Travel Guide to Colonial America : A fun way to learn about Colonial America giving you fun activities and projects to do.

Tituba: The sad story of Tituba when she is known as the first witch.