Tuesday 3 May 2016

Tuesday

Work-Hard-For-A-Month month continues.

Early Dismissal Wednesday

Spelling Test Today.
Please write out all words that were spelled incorrectly five times.
Show me on Friday.

Today we worked on math and spelling.

We read an article about Ringling Brothers circus. They are no longer using elephants in their shows. Students wrote a 100 word response to the article. Please make sure this is completed for Wednesday morning.

We studied all the terms below in science. There is a science test  Wednesday, students will need to know every term.

Spelling
1. village
2. vacation
3. vaccine
4. vacuum
5. vague
6. vain
7. vein
8. valid
9. valuable
10. valedictorian
11. vanish
12. valet
13. vandalism
14. vanilla
15. volunteer
16. vulnerable
17. vow
18. vitality
19. visceral
20. visionary

Science
1. Define the following terms:
environment
ecosystem
biotic
abiotic
drought
invasive species
sustainability
living organisms
producers in an ecosystem
consumers in an ecosystem
decomposers in an ecosystem
photosynthesis
transfer of energy in a food chain
separation by evaportion
seperation by filtration
seperation by distillation
seperation by settling
seperation by magnetism
mixtures
solutions
pure substance 
solute
solvent
insoluble
saturated
unsaturated
dilute
temperature
atom
molecule
concentration of a solution
heat loss
heat transfer
fossil fuel
nuclear energy
geothermal energy
solar energy
wind energy
wave energy
tidal energy
biofuel
solid
liquid
gas 
heat
conduction
convection
radiation
2. Why is water referred to as the universal solvent?
3. Why is an ecosystem limited in the number of living things it can support? 
4. Explain Particle Theory