Our first auction was a great success! Students spent over $700 of their earned money. Our next auction will be Monday, October 17th.
Students are dismissed at NOON on Thursday this week in the elementaries only.
SATURDAY LIVE
Saturday, September 24
Some students have volunteered to help at Saturday Live. I have listed their initials below until Saturday in case you are unaware of the time your child is scheduled.
Feather Extensions:
11:45-1:00 AS, AS, BK
12:45-2:00 HB, GR
A message from Mrs. Reitz regarding coupon books (6th grade only)
Hello Parents!
The deadline for our Preferred Coupon Booklets is next Monday, September 26th. Please make sure your child has sold at least 7-8 of them, OR if they are not selling, you are planning to make a donation of $70 to cover the expenses for your child. Once again, this money is being used to purchase a yearbook for each child, along with expenses for our field trip to the Lewis & Clark Caverns and for our 6th grade party at Rose Park. If your child has not sold any booklets yet, the neighborhoods that "feed" into Arrowhead School might be interested (Arrowhead does not sell these booklets and they are popular!). They really do sell quite easily, especially if you are selling in a neighborhood that hasn't bought them yet this year. Thanks for all of your help and support!
SUBJECT UPDATES:
READING: Both classes are reading required books. Students need to write 3-5 vocab words, 3-5 discussion questions, and as many summaries of the chapters as they are assigned to read. MOST are doing well with this. Some are struggling. Please ask your child when reading is assigned if they have the accompanying work done as well as the reading.
LANGUAGE: Continuing with diagramming adjectives and writing (both creative and expository). LWR quiz on FRIDAY this week. Prefixes, suffixes, and roots are below.
SOCIAL STUDIES: 5th graders have a TEST on Chap 1 onWED and their maps are due on FRIDAY. We will start Chapter 2 on Friday.
SCIENCE: Continuing with our study of acid from last year.
MATH: Triangles, quadrilaterals, circles.
SPELLING: U 4 test on Friday
Latin Word Root: clud, herbi
Prefix
con- with, together
ex- out, away, from
se- apart
Root
clud/clus close
herbi grass
vor eat
Suffix
-cide kill
-ion state, quality, act
-ous having the quality of
5th grade
Unit 4 Vowel Sounds /oo/, /yoo/
BASIC: glue, flute, youth, bruise, stew, choose, loose, lose, cruise, jewel, dilute, route, cartoon, avenue, include, assume, souvenir, accuse, view, confuse
CHALLENGE:
conclude, pursuit, intrude, subdue, presume
REAL WORLD VOCABULARY
Math: Probability
impossible, probable, outcomes, ratio, percentage, option, likelihood, algebra
6th grade
Unit 4 Vowel + r sound
BASIC: flirt, hurdle, earnest, urban, smirk, rehearse, surface, yearn, source, scorn, afford, mourn, formula, parka, radar, discard, parcel, starch, frontier, fierce
CHALLENGE: horizontal, circuit, reimburse, formidable, monarchy
REAL WORLD VOCABUALRY
Science: Radar
transmitter, antenna, electromagnetic, encounter, forecasting, surveillance, physicist, innovation
Rainbow Words (Spelling)--explanation
Students write the words they missed on the Spelling Pretest 3 times using a different color each time.
iKeepBookmarks.com
I will be putting frequently used bookmarks on this web site so you or your children can access them from home. Right now I have one called Calculation Nation there. It is a FANTASTIC site for math practice (at their level) and logical thinking. [My current favorite is neXtu. J] I will be introducing the games in class. However, students may access them at any time and read the directions for playing them.
Students need a login name and password. I have created 4 currently. They all center around the name of Zeb and a #, and the password is my last name with a #. You will need the underscore in the user name.
Accounts:
User name: Zeb_1 Password: porisch1
User name: Zeb_2 Password: porisch2
User name: Zeb_3 Password: porisch3
User name: Zeb_4 Password: porisch4
I have made these accounts for Calculation Nation so that the students can challenge each other. They will know that if a “Zeb” is online, that it is someone from the class. Each account has to have a separate email address associated with it, so at the current time, I only have 4 set up.
I will be updating this page as we get nearer to the first day of school so check back before then.
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