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____ 2 points  My Goal this week is: (Write in journal in a complete sentence.) 

____ 3 points  Language Skills:  Idioms

• What is the definition of an “idiom”?  Write it in your comp book.

Tell me what these phrases really mean:

1. You are in hot water.
2. Money doesn’t grow on trees.
3. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

• Write 5 more idioms in your book and tell me what they mean.

____ 3 points Math:  Inches 

• How many inches in a foot?
• How many inches in a yard?
• How many inches tall are you?
• Estimate how many inches you think it is across our classroom.

____ 10 points Social Studies - Choose 1:  Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana

• Write 3 facts about this state.
• Draw and color their state flag into your composition book.
• What # state is it?
• What year did it become a state?
• Complete worksheet on state.

____ 5 points Famous Person: Isaac Newton

• Who was he?
• Why was he famous?
• What did he do?
• Name his 3 Laws of Motion - what are they? 

____ 2 points Art Border: 

• Design a border around your two pages of answers.  The border must be in color and have something to do with the letter “i”.

             ____5 points Overall Neatness, Spelling & Organization

Isaac Newton was born on Dec. 25, 1642, in England. His father died before he was born, and when he was only three his mother, Hannah Newton, remarried and moved away, leaving him to be raised by an uncle. He had a wide set of interests, and after leaving the grammar school he enrolled at Trinity College, at the University of Cambridge, in 1661. He received his bachelor of arts in 1665, and was named a fellow of the College two years later.  How old was he?

Meanwhile, in the turbulent year of 1666 Newton made three of his greatest discoveries. In the field of optics, the study of light, he developed and proved his theory that white light is composed of a mixture of other colors of light, which, when split apart by a prism, form a band of color called a spectrum. This was a revolutionary advance, and equally revolutionary was his work in mathematics, where he developed a binomial theorem and worked out a method of calculating the slope of curves and the area under them, paving the way for the field of math known as calculus. But his most important innovation was the concept of gravity, the attraction between bodies in space that holds planets, moons and comets in orbit, and draws falling objects toward the earth. His theory of gravity, however, remained incomplete and unverifiable; it would not be published for two decades.

Newton's research was organized into a three-volume book, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), known as the Principia. This set forth Newton's three laws of motion, and proceeded to set forth the theory of gravitation, and back it up with rigorous mathematical proofs. Although the theory had many detractors at first, the scientific community would ultimately embrace it, and the Newtonian world-view would dominate physics until the 20th century.  

Newton never married.  He died on March 20, 1727, and was buried with great honors in Westminster Abbey.