Upcoming dates:

Tuesday, Nov 13….Get America Singing (gym)      1pm – 3:00pm (for parents only)

Tues, 8:30 AM……….6^th grade to Alberta Bair

Sun, Nov 19^th ……………..……….Barnes & Noble

Mon, Nov 19^th……………………….…Nov. auction

(I will be out of town next Th and the following Thursday is Thanksgiving, so I am moving the auction to Monday of Thanksgiving week.)

Tues, Nov. 20……………………..NOON dismissal

Happy THANKSGIVING!

Wed-Fri………………………..Mrs. Porisch is gone

(I have planned some ‘alternative’ lessons for the sub to do with the kids, so that is why you don’t see much movement on the topics below. However, they will have spelling and the LWR quiz per our usual schedule.)

Most likely, I will not be updating the blog until after Thanksgiving. There will be no LWRs or spelling the week of Nov 19^th.

Reading

5^th graders:

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:

Writing—Expository writing. Persuasive writing.

Spelling—U 13 are at the end of the blog. U 12 is a review unit which I skip.

Math

5^th graders: Fractions

6^th graders: Proportions and Ratios

5^th grade Social Studies

Begin Ch 5

Science—Robots & cells. Comic strip of organelles is DUE TUESDAY.

Robot Club: Tuesday, November 13^th.  I will be out of town on the 14^th  of November.

LWR  for the week of Nov 12th

Focus:  tele

Prefix:             

Root:

tele                             from afar

gram/graph   write, written

phon                          sound

metr                           measure

scop                           look, view

therm/o          heat

Suffix:

-y                                state, quality, act

5^th grade spelling words for the week of Nov 12^th

Unit 13 VCCV Pattern

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    Use scissors to cut the paper in half.

2.    The bus should arrive soon.

3.    Two apples for a nickel is a bargain.

pattern, suppose, sorrow, tunnel, suggest, common, journey, object, shoulder, permit, subject, custom, perhaps, lawyer, timber, publish, burden

CHALLENGE WORDS

narrate, mentor, attempt, collide, ignore

6^th grade spelling words for the week of Nov 2^nd   

Unit 13 Words with the suffixes –ion, or -ation

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    The team made a substitution.

2.    The alteration made the skirt fit.

3.    My paper needed one correction.

explore, exploration, admire, admiration, examine, examination, separate, separation, observe, observation, correct, substitute, subtract, subtraction, alter, reflect, reflection

CHALLENGE WORDS

irritate, irritation, coordinate, coordination

Real World Challenge Social Studies—Exploration

nautical, galleon, trade winds, celestial, commander, conquistadors, economic, empire