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Six Week Review

This classroom tested cooperative activity requires the students in the intermediate grades to work together to locate and practice concepts and skills taught in a given period of time, using the News Journal as the source.

The activity has taken up two hours to complete with fifth graders working in groups of two or three.

Using the newspaper encourages all the students to participate and stay on the task. It is a fun activity and makes it possible for the children to see how what they have learned fits in with real life.

Examples are readily available in the News Journal. The newspaper provides reinforcement for their lessons and helps them study in an exciting way for up-coming tests.

This assignment can easily be modified for any subject matter and can be repeated for each new unit.

Easy to evaluate, this simple but effective plan works well with upper elementary or middle schoolers. It is time efficient for the teacher, while providing necessary review of classroom concepts for the student.

A. Spelling

1. With your partner find ten words in this first section of the paper that have the "ou", or "oi" sound as in route or poise and write them in the space below along with the page number.

2. Find ten words in the Accent section that have the "s" sound as in essay or the "z" sound as in observe and write them in the space below along with the page number.

3. Using all sections find ten words using the base words cept, form, tend, duct. Write the complete word below and tell the page and section.

4. Using the Neighbors section of the newspaper find ten words with double consonants such as "pp", as in slipping. Write the words below and tell the page number next to each word.

5. Using the Area section find ten that have "eal", as in ideal, or "ale" as in inhale or "ape" as in grape. Write the words below and tell the page next to each word.

B. Grammar

1. Find ten possessives with an apostrophe such as Allen´s shirt. List them below with the page number.

2. Find two compound sentences and write them in the space below along with the page.

3. Find twelve verbs, four in the past tense, four in the present tense, four in the future tense. Write them in the space below with the page number.

4. Find four sentences with the subject pronouns such as I, you, he, she, it, they, and we. Write them in the space below along with the page number.

5. Find six dates using commas to separate the month and day from the year or the year from the rest of the sentence, such as November 19, 1888. Write them in the space below.

C. Mathematics

1. Using the fourteen Florida cities for the high and low temperature: (a) Create a chart showing the cities and there high temperature for the day; (b) Find the highest, lowest, range and mean average; (c)List the prime numbers for the low temperatures

2. Find the price of five cars of the choice and determine the monthly payments by dividing the cost by 36, then 48, then 66 months. Example: Chevy Lumina $12,990*36=$360.83

3. Find five, six digit numbers and divide it by 79. Example: 123456*79=1562

D. Reading

Our second unit was "It´s A Mystery". Find as many criminal justice or police words as you can and list them along with the page number in the space below.

Bob Fisher
Port Orange

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