Important Dates:

Tour of Will James.............Wednesday, May 9 from 11:30-1:30 


Friday PM, May 11th      I will be gone to attend my daughter's graduation from college  :-)


Monday, May14th         Play in the gym     10:15 (Cast 2) & 1:20 (Cast 1)

READING—Play—“Wait ‘til the Sun Shines, Nellie, or So Long Simon Snivelheart” by Craig Sodaro

6^th The Boy in the Striped Pajamas  by Boyne OR The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. Continuing with readings.

5^th American Tall Tales  Students are writing their own Tall Tale

MATH           Multiplying polynomials & measurement--continuing

LANG

Interactive Editing (paraphrasing and writing 1 sentence summaries)

LWR—Root   cardi

peri-               around

cardi/0         heart

graph                        write, written

path               feeling, disease

-ac                  related to, pertaining to

-al                   like, related to

-ology                        study of, science

-y                    state, quality, act

SOCIAL STUDIES

5th grade: Working on Dramatizations (in class) for Chapter 17  Finishing. Test on Wednesday

SCIENCE—Our last 2 weeks of school will be spent on a Creative Problem Solving activity (much like the Mousetronauts last year). We will get more details at the end of this week.

LWR – anti

  

Prefix

dia                  through, across

Root

log                  word, reason

meter                        measure

chron             time

derm              skin

therm                        heat

Suffix

-ic                   like, related to

-y                    state, quality, act

5th grade               U 35

More words from other languages

Dictation Sentences:

1.    My khaki pants are a light brown color.

2.   A person with brown hair is a brunette.

3.   That is a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Basic: ballet, cassette, coupon, portrait, barrette, depot, courtesy, petite, denim, buffet, gazette, crochet, essay, echo, safari, chorus, alphabet

Challenge: encore, collage, matinee, premiere, embarrass

Real Word Vocabulary:  Careers: Photography

digital, manipulate, print, crop, enlarge, focus, light meter, develop

6th grade               U 35

Words often confused

Dictation Sentences:

1.    I will emigrate from my country.

2.   My conscience will keep me honest.

3.   Al’s Diner was formerly Ed’s Diner.

Basic: desert, dessert, hardy, hearty, moral, morale, laying, lying, personal, personnel, formally, bizarre, bazaar, precede, proceed, conscious, immigrate

Challenge: sympathy, empathy, imminent, eminent

Real Word Vocabulary:  Careers: Office Jobs

maintenance, mailroom, corporate, bookkeeper, administrative, vice president, deliveries, extension