Math
Round 167 to the nearest 100.
200
What is theme?
A universal lesson or central message of a story.
Our Democratic Community: Name one right and one responsibility that you have as a student.
Rights: the right to learn, the right to be safe at school, etc.
Responsibilities: the responsibility to make safe choices, be respectful towards others, etc.
Weather and Climate: What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather describes temporary conditions (rain, sunshine, cloudiness, etc.); climate describes the average conditions of a region over many years (dry, humid, tropical, etc.)
What is the name of Ms. Federico's cat?
Jax
Solve 15 x 6 using the break-apart strategy.
90
What is the part of a story's plot that is considered the "turning point" or "most intense" point in the story?
Climax
Regions of the World: Which of these maps would you use if you wanted to find the capitals of each state? Which one would you use if you wanted to locate mountain ranges in a region?:
Physical map
Political map
State capitals: Political map
Mountain ranges: Physical map
Push
Where did we go on our first field trip?
Anderson Farms
What is the sum of 589 and 263?
852
What are the 3 rules of summarizing? *think SUM*
Short and simple, Use your own words, Most important details only!
Geographic Problems: Give TWO examples of natural resources and how they are used.
Natural resource examples: trees, water, oil, land, etc.
They can be used to make products such as desks, pencils, buildings, plastics, etc.
Life Cycles and Traits: What is similar about a frog's and butterfly's life cycles (provide at least TWO similarities)?
Both are born small and grow larger; both hatch from eggs; both reproduce; both go through metamorphosis; both die.
What was the title of our first Book Club book?
Because of Winn-Dixie
Name TWO fractions that are equivalent to 1/2.
2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 5/10, 6/12, etc.
What TWO things do good readers use to make inferences about a text?
Economics: What is one possible reason that the cost of a good or service might increase?
An increase in demand (more people want it) or a decrease in supply (fewer resources for that good or service)
Life Cycles and Traits: What caused the baby lizards on Lizard Island to have more sticky scales than the generations of lizards before them?
On Lizard Island, the slower climbers (with fewer sticky scales) were more likely to be eaten by predators which left the faster climbers behind to reproduce with one another, producing lizard babies with more sticky scales.
How many chrysalids did we have during our Life Cycles unit?
5 chrysalids
Ms. Federico's class raised $3,451 for Boosterthon!!! They decided to pocket some of the money and use it to buy fake mustaches. Now they have $1,898 to give to the school. How much did they spend on fake mustaches?
$1,553
Questioning (Quincy), Clarifying (Clara), Predicting (Paula), and Summarizing (Sammy)
Economics: What capital resources did you use to make your products for Purchasing Day? What human resources were used?
Answers may vary (Capital resources include the money, tools, and materials; Human resources include your time and skills used to make the products)
Organism survival: How can fossils be used to understand the changes in an environment over time?
We can use fossils to infer what type of an environment each organism lived in based on that organism's needs (i.e. a fossil that shows an organism with fins likely lived in an underwater environment), and we can see how that environment changed over time based on how the fossils in that area change.
We had 7 read-aloud books this year - Name them all!
Wild Robot, The Tale of Despereaux, Odder, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Love that Dog, James and the Giant Peach, and Hate that Cat