6th graders to Alberta Bair on Tuesday afternoon for the presentation of "Raven Stole the Sun". They will eat early, leave @ noon, and return around 2:00.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, April 11^th NWEA Reading tests (AM)

Wed, Th, Fri, April 11, 12, and 13^th: I’ll be at the state gifted conference in Great Falls, MT

READING—Beginning new novels

MATH           Graphs and Data--finishing

LANG

Cause & effect

Stereotypes

Propaganda

LWR—path, somat

SOCIAL STUDIES

5th grade: Finishing Chapter 14

SCIENCE

Continuing w/ Force and Motion

Watching Myth Busters that relate to force and motion while I am gone

LWR – path, somat

  

Prefix

a-               not, without
anti-        against, without
sym-       with, together

Root

gen           birth, produce, race
metr        measure
path        feeling, disease
psycho    mind, spirit

meter      measure

somat/o  body

Suffix

-ic                   like, related to

-y                    state, quality, act
-ology            study of, science

SPELLING—U 32

5th grade—

U 32 

Suffixes:  -ent, -ant, -able, -ible

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Scared rabbits run with urgency.

2.   Cows eat with great frequency.

3.   Bright lights shine with radiance.

Basic: different, difference, urgent, absent, absence, frequent, vacant, vacancy, distant, distance, infant, infancy, radiant, honorable, comfortable, possible, terrible

Challenge: evident, evidence, occupant, occupancy, capable

Real World Vocabulary Health: Exercise

Fatigue, workout, accelerates, heartbeat, strength, nutrition, endurance, marathon

U 33

Greek Word Parts

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Is calligraphy beautiful writing?

2.   We televise our school ball games.

3.   The symphony played lovely music.

Basic: autograph, photograph, paragraph, telegraph, biography, homograph, telephone, megaphone, saxophone, xylophone, homophone, microscope, microphone, microwave, biology, photocopy, telescope

Challenge: telecommute, bibliography, phonetic, microbe, autobiography

Real Word Vocabulary:  Technology: Communication

dispatch, envelope, telegrams, inventor, cellular, hands-free, voice mail, electronic

6th grade-

U 32 

Greek Word Parts

Dictation Sentences:

1.    In psychology we study the mind.

2.   A timeline shows a chronology.

3.   Is my story in our anthology?

Basic: geography, geology, geometry, democracy, democratic, aristocrat, aristocracy, zoology, technology, mythology, apology, thermos, thermometer, thermal, thermostat, automatic, automobile

Challenge: archaeology, geographic, bureaucracy, etymology, autocrat

Real World Vocabulary Language Arts: Reading

biography, memoirs, abridged, excerpt, autobiography, prose, genre, literature

U 33

Latin Word Roots

Dictation Sentences:

1.    How my nails need a manicure!

2.   The audience loved the play.

3.   Did Congress pass a new law?

Basic: prescribe, manuscript, contract, extract, manufacture, manual, management, progression, vocal, vocabulary, audition, eject, inject, objection, impose, expose, proposal

Challenge: manipulate, protractor, inscription, auditory, advocate

Real Word Vocabulary:  Social Studies: Manufacturing

Raw materials, factory, mechanized, laborers, assembly line, foreman, machinery, specialization