4th and 5th Grade Blizzard Bag Assignments
1st Day Assignment:
#1. Log into Spelling City
Under the word lists, choose in this order:
1. Traditional Literature
2. Reading Vocabulary
3. English Terms
4. Fun Words
For each list, play the Flash Card game to learn the definitions for the words.
After that, click on V-test, take a practice test, or 2 practice tests if needed.
Then take the Vocabulary Test for each list.
#2. Log into Study Island
Do a lesson in the Reading section. Be sure to get a Blue Ribbon.
2nd Day Assignment:
#1. Go to www.brainpop.com and login - louisvillees, brainpop
Go to the English section, click on "Study and Reading Skills"
In this section, listen to the following videos and take the quiz following each video:
Critical Reasoning, Context Clues, Main Idea, Reading Skills, & Test-Taking Skills
#2. After those are completed, log into Study Island.
Do "Drawing Inferences" in ELA under the Reading Standards for Literature section.
(If Study Island suggests that you do another topic because you have a blue ribbon,
ignore that and still do "Drawing Inferences.")
#3. If you could not get on the Brainpop site, then do "Summarizing Texts" on Study
Island - also in ELA, Reading Standards for Literature section (Like above, if it says to
try another topic, ignore that and continue with summarizing.
3rd Day Assignment:
Get online and log into Spelling City. Click on Teaching Resources.
Under "Language Arts Lessons," do:
1. Analogies - then click, "Featured Games" & play 2 of your choice
2. Figurative Language - Play 2 games of your choice
3. Parts of Speech - Do both the "Adjectives & Adverbs" games and
Do both the "Conjunctions & Prepositions" games
4. Possessive Nouns - Play 2 games of your choice
5. Verb Tenses - Play 2 games of your choice in the middle school section
6. Then under "Useful Word Lists," click "Multiple Meaning Words"
Do 6th - 8th grade level, Take the vocabulary test
for all 11 lists.