Assignments for 01/28/2014

Homework for Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Mornin' Glory,

Here is your assignment from me for today.  I hope you have a happy day.  I love you a buncha bunches!

Gramma

LANGUAGE ARTS:  01/28/2014

GRAMMAR:  NOUNS

 A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or feeling. It also one of the eight parts of speech. Examples: man, city, book, and courage. Nouns often follow words like a, an, and the.

Instructions: Pick out all the nouns in these sentences.

1. The teacher told the student that a person should always be loyal.

2. People with perseverance will be successful in life.

3. I bought a new pen at the drugstore across the street.

4. The man said to the policeman that he had not seen the accident.

MORE ABOUT NOUNS:

Go to this website:  http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/nouns.htm

Read about nouns, then take the test (there are 3 questions).  Clear the answer and try again until you get the answer right if you make an error.

Click on this link and play the balloon noun game: http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/noun/balloon_game/

SOUND ALIKE WORDS:

Study Part 1 of Sound Alike at Location 3104 in “The Grammar Teacher’s Activity-a-Day” book on Kindle.  Make sure you know the meanings and spelling of the sound-alike words.

Write each word 5 times.  Be sure to write them neatly so Gramma can read them so you don’t have to rewrite them. 

 RIDDLES:

Define the word “riddle.”

Now answer these riddles:

 1.      Why was Cinderella thrown off the basketball team?

2.      Why did Bill throw the clock out the window?

3.      What is full of holes and holds water?

4.      What is black and white and red all over?

5.      What has four eyes but can’t see?

 6.      I am weightless but you can see me.  Put me in a bucket and I’ll make it 

      lighter.  What am I?

7.      What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 

8.      I have a tail and I have a head but I have no body.  I am not a snake.  What am I?

9.      What falls but does not break and what breaks but does not fall?

10.  You throw away the outside and cook the inside.  Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.  What did you eat?

 Now here is a youtube riddle going around:

It is 3:00 AM.  The doorbell rings and you wake up.  Unexpected visitors!!!  It’s your parents and they’re here for breakfast.  You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread, and cheese.  What is the first thing you open?

 Now go to this link and find out if your answer is right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3GnUw2MZm0&feature=player_embedded

SNOW GRAMMAR:

 What is the definition of “snow?”

 Use the word “snow” as a noun in a sentence.

 Use the word “snow” as a verb (action word) in a sentence.

Name six words that contain the word “snow.”

 TYPING:

 Using the home keys for both hands, type as many words as you can think of.

Do the next typing lesson and game on “Typing Instructor.”

WRITING:

Come and get a thank you card from me and write a thank you note for the gift card to Grandma Terry.  Tell her what you bought.  Also say something that will make her smile when she reads it.  Be sure your writing  is legible.  Address the envelope (and be sure the postman can read it).  I will give you a stamp.

 Art:

Get with Chuck to go over Coreldraw lesson on items in the tools menu.

Math:

Now that you have speakers, finish the Time for Learning math lesson on angles that we started on Friday.

Get with Chuck for lesson on creating bisectors and congruent angles.

Science:

Read 30 minutes in your rocket book.

Social Studies:

Do lesson 6164 on Time 4 Learning website