Week 20 · Day 3 Practice Pages
Practice page · Week 20, Day 3
Mathematics
I can place fractions greater than 1 on a number line.
Look: 7/6
- Draw a line from 0 to 2. Split each whole into 6 equal spaces.
- Count jumps from 0: 6 jumps reach 6/6, which is 1.
- 1 more jump lands on 7/6.
Draw a 0 to 2 line for each fraction and place the point.
- 1.
5/3
- 2.
10/8
- 3.
6/3
- 4.
11/6
Answer each question.
- 5.
Which of 5/3, 10/8, 6/3, 11/6 is a whole number? What number is it?
- 6.
Is 4/3 between 0 and 1 or between 1 and 2?
○ between 0 and 1○ between 1 and 2 - 7.
Diego runs laps around a track. He runs 9/4 laps. Is that more or less than 2 laps?
○ more○ less
Challenge: Name the fraction one jump past 2 on a halves line.
Practice page · Week 20, Day 3
English Language Arts
I can use facts that can be checked as evidence.
Look: Fact or opinion?
- A fact can be checked or proven.
- An opinion tells what someone thinks or feels.
- Add a fact with a starter: In fact, ... It is true that ... According to ...
Circle Fact or Opinion.
- 1.
A foot is 12 inches long.
○ Fact○ Opinion - 2.
Recess is the best time of day.
○ Fact○ Opinion - 3.
Our dog weighs 40 pounds.
○ Fact○ Opinion - 4.
How could you check that the dog weighs 40 pounds?
- 5.
Finish with a fact starter: '____ the walk to the park takes 6 minutes.'
Build new words with suffixes.
- 6.
break + able = breakable. What does it mean?
- 7.
dis + agree + able = ____
- 8.
Circle the abstract noun, a thing you cannot see or touch.
○ excitement○ pavement
Challenge: Write an evidence sentence that uses the word enjoyment.
Materials: a ruler or kitchen scale
Practice page · Week 20, Day 3
Science
I can explain that Earth's climate has changed over long periods.
Clues from Long Ago
Earth's climate has changed many times. During the last ice age, thick ice covered much of Canada and the northern United States. Woolly mammoths walked across cold grasslands. The ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. How do we know? Scientists study clues. Fossils show which plants and animals lived long ago. Layers of old ice and rock hold clues about past temperatures. Today, thermometers all over the world keep careful records, too.
Read the box. Then answer.
- 1.
What covered much of the northern land during the ice age?
- 2.
Name one animal that lived during the ice age.
- 3.
Name one clue scientists use to learn about climates long ago.
- 4.
Is Earth's climate the same today as during the ice age?
○ Yes○ No
Climate Clue Timeline. Draw long ago at one end and your town today at the other.
- 5.
Draw the ice age and today.
- 6.
List 2 differences between your two pictures.
Challenge: Why do scientists keep careful temperature records today?
Materials: a long strip of paper · markers
Practice page · Week 20, Day 3
Social Studies
I can tell the jobs of the President and the executive branch.
Sort the job cards. Write P if it is the President's job. If not, write who does it.
- 1.
signs a bill into law
- 2.
vetoes a bill
- 3.
welcomes a visiting leader from another country
- 4.
leads the state
- 5.
runs town services
- 6.
decides a case in court
Answer the questions.
- 7.
How old must a person be to become President?
- 8.
A President is elected two times and serves two full 4-year terms. How many years is that?
Challenge: Draw a ladder: Mayor, Governor, President. Write one job next to each.
Materials: index cards