Conferences: Thank you for coming and visiting about your child's progress. I really enjoy the insights you provide, and they help me instruct your child, as well as the others, in a more enlightened, guided way. 

I feel like we are over the first hurdle as a class. I have had less late work and fewer interruptions. We are improving the listening skills (following directions). We will continue to respect each others' opinions and practice compromise. 

Upcoming dates:

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

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

*correction from last week. Nov 13^th is for parents only. The other date was a dress rehearsal.

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--With the short week, we did not get to all of the items below, so they are still on the list. 

Skills: Dialogue & using quotations properly

Writing—Expository writing. Persuasive writing.

LWR—poly

Spelling—U 11 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--Reasons for exploration

Science—Robots & cells. The students are writing comic strips with organelles as the characters. We did not make our cells last week, so we will do that on Thursday AM.

Robot Club: 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 Nov 5^th

Focus: poly

Prefix:             

Root:

poly                   many

the                     god

arch                  first, chief, rule

phono              sound

centr                 center

gam                  united, joined

onym                name, word

chrom              color

gen                    birth, produce, race

Suffix:

-ic                      like, related to

-ism                  act, state, condition

-ous                  having the quality of

-y                       state, quality, act

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

Unit 11  Final “schwa” + /r/

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    These stairs lead down to the cellar.

2.    This salad has a nasty, bitter taste.

3.    What is a major product of our state?

chapter, anger, passenger, thunder, messenger, quarter, proper, flavor, mayor, senator, tractor, elevator, molar, popular, pillar, calendar, lunar

CHALLENGE WORDS

stellar,  clamor, tremor, circular, adviser

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

Unit 10 Words  Endings & Suffexes

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    I feel better but not entirely well.

2.    I hugged the tiny, adorable kitten.

3.    I hate excluding her from the play.

reserved, sparkling, advanced, usable, excluding, unlikely, forceful, amazement, gentleness, priceless, excitement, graceful, sincerely, amusement, wireless, scarcely, changeable

CHALLENGE WORDS

inspiring, idleness, achievement, precisely, disciplined

Real World Challenge Performing Arts--Dance

choreographer, musicals, waltz, tempo, ballerina, tango, flamenco, expressive