Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Quick update.....before I leave for Thanksgiving!



Upcoming dates:

Bring $3-$5 for Operation Westward Bound (colored note went home on Tuesday)

Tues, Nov 27th ….Evening workshop for the Master Facility Plan…….6:30-8:00 PM @ Will James Library….All public is invited.

Fri, Nov 30th ……………………..Spirit Day

Thurs, Dec 6th ….Evening workshop for the Master Facility Plan…….6:30-8:00 PM @ Lincoln Center Board Room….All public is invited.

Reading

5th graders:

Skills: Main idea, summaries, tone & mood, predictions.

6th graders: Students are finished with The Year of the Hangman and Bound.  They will be working on a final presentation.

Language

Skills: Idioms and metaphors

Writing—

Spelling—U 14

Math

5th graders: Fractions
6th graders: Proportions and Ratios

5th grade Social Studies

Continue Ch 5

Science—Robots & Rube Goldberg

Robot Club: Back on the WED schedule for the next 4 weeks.

LWR

Focus:  mono

Prefix:     none       

Root:
mono               one
arch                  first, chief, ruler
centr                 center
chrom              color
gen                    birth, produce, race
phob                 fear
phon                 sound
the                     god

Suffix:
-ia                      condition
-ic                      like, related to
-ism                  act, state, condition
-y                       state, quality, act

5th grade spelling words

Unit 14  VCV Pattern

BASIC WORDS
3 Dictation Sentences
1.    Food and shelter are human needs.
2.    Order lunch from the menu.
3.    What tasks can that robot do?

exact,  credit, vivid, modern, panic, cousin, novel, award, behave, basic, evil, nation, select, item, police, prefer, deserve

CHALLENGE WORDS

Autumn, nuisance, logic, column, laser

6th grade spelling words

Unit 14  More words with -ion

BASIC WORDS
3 Dictation Sentences
1.    What a generous donation he made!
2.    All sang, with the exception of Max.
3.    Can our team match the opposition?

instruct, instruction, possess, possession, except, discuss, discussion, donate, fascinate, fascination, conclude, conclusion, introduce, introduction, collide, collision, oppose

CHALLENGE WORDS


Real World Challenge   Social Studies  Trade

silkworm, mulberry, iridescent, loom, textiles, sheen barter, coveted



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