Please have your child bring ONE favorite piece of candy from Halloween on November 1^st.  They will get to eat it sometime during the day.  J

Seeing grades online: The quarter closes (for grades) on Friday, October 26^th. Any grades I take after that will show up in Quarter 2. You may have to navigate a little to find them? I cannot see what you see so I am just guessing on this.

Student Initiated Clubs: There have been students who have started clubs during recess times. These are run by the kids according to their interests. I have no involvement in the clubs. I am merely in the room when they are going on. One is an art club, and another is a “gamers” club.

One of the things the students in the gamers club would like to do is trade video games with other students. I am totally OK with that as long as the games are rated G. I cannot allow any trading of games that have a different rating. If students want to do that, they will have to arrange to trade games outside of school, which includes off of school grounds. Thank you for your support with this.

Upcoming dates:

Tuesday, Oct 30^th………..Report cards go home

Wednesday, Oct 31^th………….Thursday, Oct 31^st

Parent Teacher Conferences….noon dismissal

Monday, OCTOBER 29
RMC presents its annual Halloween Spook-tacular Chemistry Magic Show.. The shows will be at 9 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m. in Fortin 102 auditorium. The public is welcome to attend. The RMC  Chemical Magic class (Morgan Morales, Adam Schweber, Geirint Sis, and Anne Wylie) will perform the demonstrations, including ghostly ectoplasm, enchanted wine, screaming gummy bear, and self-carving pumpkins. Great fun for kids. For more information: Dr. Gavin Kirton, RMC   associate professor, chemistry, ( 406) 238.7377 / E-mail: gavin.kirton@rocky.edu

Thursday, Nov 8….Get America Singing (gym)      1:30pm – 2:00pm

Thursday, Nov 8….MSU-B Intermediate Math Night……………………………………..……6:30-7:30

Reading

5^th graders: We are back in our Lead 21 Readers. One group is reading about hibernation and the other one is reading about the deep ocean.

Skills: Main idea, summaries, tone & mood, opinions & facts. We’ll be doing these for about 2 weeks.

6^th graders: Students continue with The Year of the Hangman and Bound.

Language

Skills: Dialogue & using quotations properly

Writing—Expository writing. Persuasive writing.

LWR—scop

Spelling—U 10 is at the end of the blog.

Math

5^th graders: Fractions

6^th graders: Proportions and Ratios

5^th grade Social Studies

Begin Ch 4

Science—Robots & cells. We will be building models of cells on FRIDAY. If you have some “edible” items that would represent cellular organelles, we would love to have them. Students have been drawing the cells. They should be able to draw them almost from memory by now. 

Some suggestions so far are: rope licorice, Fruit by the Foot (or something like that); Nerds, raisins or Crasins, and jelly beans. If anyone has some of that old Christmas ribbon candy, that would make a great endoplasmic reticulum! J We will be making both plant and animal cells. We will also be writing a comic strip featuring the organelles as the characters.

Robot Club: (This is one club that I will be running.) For those who would like to continue exploring programming and robotic challenges. No fee, just fun!  J It will begin on Wednesday, November 7^th and run through Wednesday, December 12^th from 3:15 – 4:15. There is one exception--  The second club meeting will be on Tuesday, November 13^th.  I will be out of town on the 14^th  of November.

LWR  for the week of Oct 29^th

Focus: scop

Prefix:              
peri-                   around

Root:

scop                  look, view

tele                    from afar

phono              sound

micro                  small

macro               large, great

hydro               water

cardio               heart

Suffix:

-ic                      like, related to

5^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 29th

Unit 10 Compound Words—words that may be written as a single word, a hyphenated word, or separate words

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    Deer and ducks are common wildlife.

2.    How up-to-date is your computer?

3.    What a long home run the batter hit!

Uproar, headache, teammate, wheelchair, throughout, lifeguard, barefoot, warehouse, overboard, outspoken, awestruck, newscast, top-secret, well-known, part-time,  light bulb, post office

CHALLENGE WORDS

Motorcycle, overseas, quick-witted, stomachache, bulletin board

6^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 29^th  

Unit 10 Words ending with –ed or -ing

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    She kept forgetting to return the book.

2.    Ethan shuddered at the horrid thought.

3.    On icy roads, skidding is a hazard.

fitting, permitting, scrapped, admitted, preferred, scarred, happening, limited, equaled, reasoning labored, tutoring, honored, pardoned, modeling, favored, glistening

CHALLENGE WORDS

Omitted, merited, tapered, equipped, recurring

Real World Challenge Language Arts--debating

argument, controversial, persuasive, consideration, rebuttal, philosophy, orator, conviction