Extra Math Group: We will start next Monday, October 8^th at 7:30 AM. Our initial focus will be integers. Students should come to the door they usually enter, not the front door. It will be propped open. A note will be in the Wednesday Watch about this. It is optional, but I do want commitment, not just an occasional attendance.

Reading

5^th graders: Finished reading about explorers. We will start reading about scientists

6^th graders: Finished reading Native American Books. Students will be working on a project

Language

More expository writing work. I am introducing the 5^th graders to the “stop light writing method”.

Next week’s LWR & definitions are at the end of the blog.

Spelling—words & sentences are listed at the end of the blog.

6^th grade: Unit 7 (words below & sentences below)

5^th grade: Unit 7 (words and sentences  below)

Math

Geometry: Finishing geometry….hopefully.  J

5^th grade Social Studies

Chapter 1: Map projects are due Tuesday. We will begin Ch 2.

Science—More robots.

LWR  for the week of Oct 1^st  

Focus: macro

Prefix:

Root:

bio                     life

cosm                 universe, harmony

graph                write, written

macro               large, great

scop                           look, view

mania               intense craving, loss of reason

Suffix:

-sis                    action, process

-ic                      like, related to

5^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 1^st

Unit 7  Vowel sounds: Vowel + /r/ sounds

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences (note the commas!)

1.    The winner will bring glory to her school.

2.    The flower colors vary from red to pink.

3.    Body armor protected knights of old.

adore, aboard, bore, warn, torch, soar, absorb, perform, former, aware, dairy, barely, beware, stairway, carton, pardon, barge

CHALLENGE WORDS

discard, forfeit, orchestra, gracious, hoard

6^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 1^st  

Unit 7       Words with ie or ei

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    Adam had time for only a brief visit.

2.    In his leisure time, he draws cartoons.

3.    The faint sound was hard to perceive.

shield, review, fiery, relieve, grief, siege, yield, receipt, conceited, deceive, perceive, reign, veil, freight, beige, neither, foreign, seize

CHALLENGE WORDS

reprieve, wield, feign, conceive, retrieve

Real World Challenge Social Studies--Government

royalty, absolute, monarch, constitutional, coronation, sultan, regent, emperor

Last week in Extended Studies, kids tried to get out of the "linking loops". It wasn't as easy as they first thought!