Some dates coming up:

Spelling Bee:  Monday, February 6^th @ 9:30 in the gym. Good luck to MW, LG, BK,  & MJ!

If any of you have playing cards that you are not using (missing a card is OK), could you please send them to school? I have a project that requires a LOT of playing cards. You would not get them back.  J I can run them on tag board, but playing cards make it much more cool! Check out the website below to see the project.

http://momath.org/home/math-monday-make-a-ball-of-cards/

The annual Read-a-thon continues!

READING

Students have begun reading their new novels. The groups have a mix of 5^th & 6^th graders in them.

MATH

Still on percents%

LANG

Writing—working on the trait of VOICE.

SOCIAL STUDIES

5th grade: Moved through the Colonial period rather quickly. We are now on to Chapter 10—Growing Tensions Between the Colonies & Britain

SCIENCE

Feb 6^th: Materials list is due. Students who have it to turn in on Monday get a 100% in the grade book. Every day after that is goes down 10 points.

Still analyzing data.

LWR   biblio, mania

Prefix 

Root

biblio                        book

grapho            write/written

klept/o            to steal

mania            intense craving; loss of reason

mono                        one

phil                        love, loving

phob                        fear

Suffix

-ia                   condition

-ology              study of, science

-y          state, quality, act

SPELLING

5th grade

U 25 Final /n/ sound, -ture, -sure

Dictation Sentences

1.  What a huge creature the blue whale is!

2.  A new feature is at the theater.

3.  We hiked up the steep mountain.

Basic:

certain, villain, captain, surgeon, curtain, fountain, nature, future, mixture, departure, texture, gesture, furniture, adventure, pleasure, treasure, measure

Challenge:

leisure, sculpture, architecture, chieftain, enclosure

Real World Vocabulary  Health: Accidents

emergency, paramedic, ambulance, x-ray, specialist, surgery, physician, recovery

U 26 Final /ij/ , /iv/, and /is/ sounds

Dictation Sentences

1.  We keep our skis in storage during May.

2.  Each tasty olive has a pit inside.

3.  The hotel staff provides good service.

Basic:

garbage, courage, passage, voyage, knowledge, image, average, postage, luggage, language, relative, native, creative, detective, adjective, justice, cowardice

Challenge:

prejudice, cooperative, beverage, heritage, apprentice

Real World Vocabulary  Math: Analyzing Data

survey, tally, statistics, mean, median, mode, results, conclusions

6th grade

U 25  Prefixes: pre-, pro-, and per-

Dictation Sentences

1.    Freeze, the meat to preserve it.

2.    My science project is on tidal waves.

3.    My forehead drips when I perspire.

Basic:

perfume, permanent, persuade, prepaid, prehistoric, precaution, presence, previous, pronounce, prohibit, provoke, pronoun, profit, process, production, profile, profession

Challenge:

propel, preposition, prominent, preliminary, perception

Real World Vocabulary  Social Studies: Prehistoric Art

carvings, pigment, pictograph, nomadic, migration, petroglyph, incised, descendants

U 26 Words beginning with ad-, ac-, af-,  ap-, and as-

Dictation Sentences

1.    How can we accomplish our goal?

2.    The weather can affect your mood.

3.    Doctors advise eating a healthy diet.

Basic:

advice, addition, adjust, advise, accident, acquire, account, according, accept, accompany, affair, approve, appetite, applaud, assign, assist, assemble, assure

Challenge:

assess, adolescent, accumulate, affinity, appropriate

Real World Vocabulary  Life Skills:  Product Information

implements, procedure, sequence, warranty, guarantees, defects, refundable, satisfaction

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