MID TERMS WILL COME HOME WED, SEPTEMBER 28. Please sign and return them. [Our new program does not allow us to list every assignment. It will list a homework average, test average, project average, and quiz average, as well as their overall average.] I have not taken science grades yet.
I Keep Bookmarks.com I have added a few more web sites for the students. Most are interactive and right now pertain to our math lessons (geometry). The link is below.
Images of 5th grade maps will be displayed in the upcoming week. Names will not be associated with them.
SUBJECT UPDATES:
READING: Both classes are reading required books (Hatchet-5th & Gilly Hopkins—6th).
LANGUAGE: Continuing with diagramming adverbs; writing expository and creative; LWR quiz on THURSDAY
SOCIAL STUDIES: 5th graders: Evaluate map project and begin Chapter 2-Native Am and their Land
SCIENCE: Continuing with our study of acid from last year.
MATH: Geometry. All students should bring home passwords for accessing the online math books (both 5th and 6th) the week of SEPT 26. We will finish up geometry this week. A test will be the beginning of Oct over geometry.
SPELLING: U 5 If you would like the year’s spelling words in an Excel document, email me and I will send it to you. Emily Deichl created them for BOTH grades! J
LWR nov, voc
PREFIX
in- in, into, not
re- back, again
ROOT
nov new
voc/voci voice, call
SUFFIX
-able able to be
-ate to make, to act
-ation an action or process
-ferous producing
-ice one who, that which
SPELLING
5th grade
Unit 5 Vowel Sounds /ou/, /o/, and /oi/
BASIC: ounce, scowl, pounce, coward, announce, sprawl, launch, falter, haunt, naughty, saucer, August, auction, awkward, loyal, avoid, moist, destroy, poison, royal
CHALLENGE
poise, loiter, exhaust, assault, alternate
REAL WORD VOCABULARY
Social Studies: Voyage of Discover
sailor, expedition, navigation, rigging, mast, exploration, harbor, destination
[Skip Unit 6—it is a review lesson]
Unit 7 Vowel + /r/
BASIC: glory, aware, carton, adore, aboard, dairy, bore, pardon, warn, vary, barely, torch, barge, soar, beware, absorb, armor, stairway, perform, former
CHALLENGE: discard, forfeit, orchestra, gracious, hoard
REAL WORLD VOCABULARY
Drama: A Play Performance
tragedy, costumes, rehearsal, dialogue, director, climax, ovation, intermission
6th grade
Unit 5 Homophones
BASIC: waist, waste, rite, right, wright, sight, cite, site, patience, patients, muscle, mussel, coward, cowered, principal, principle, summary, summery (as in summer time), stationary, stationery
CHALLENGE: baron, barren, burrow, burro, borough
REAL WORD VOCABULARY
Health: Keeping Fit
stamina, aerobic, resistance, repetition, flexibility, metabolism, alertness, dietitian
Unit 7 Words with ie or ei
BASIC: brief, shield, review, fiery, relieve, grief, siege, yield, receipt, conceited, deceive, perceive, reign, veil, freight, beige, neither, foreign, seize, leisure
CHALLENGE: reprieve, wield, feign, conceive, retrieve
REAL WORLD VOCABUALRY
Social Studies: Government
royalty, absolute, monarch, constitutional, coronation, sultan, regent, emperor
Email
Blog
For students who have Mrs. Beatty for Social Studies:
www.beattyblogger.blogspot.com
iKeepBookmarks.com
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