Upcoming dates:

Tues, Dec 18…Coffee w/ the principal 8:30 AM

Tues, Dec 18……Select Choir Concert 1:30 PM

Wed, Dec 19^th..Giving Tree items due by 3 PM

Wed, Dec 19^th…..6^th graders on a field trip downtown. Permission slips were attached the midterms. They are green.

Missing midterms from : JB, TB, BH, FS, LS, MWa, SaR, JS, EW. You can send an email or a note if you have seen them. THANKS!  J

Reading

5^th graders:

Beginning Unit 4: Forces of Nature

6^th graders: The Westing Game

Language

Skills: Connotation & Denotation; Main & helping verbs; action and linking verbs

Writing—Christmas writing

Spelling—U 17

Math

5^th graders: Fractions—working with non-congruent fractions of a whole.

6^th graders: WHEW! That was quite a first unit. We are taking a break and doing some work with radicals.

5^th grade Social Studies

Ch 7: Comparing the Colonies (we will not finish until after the break)

Science—DNA

Robot Club: LAST Robot Club is on Dec 19^th.  

LWR

Focus: bi, dermat

Prefix:             

bi-                               two

Root:

centr                          center

chrom                       color

cycl                            circle

dermat/o                  skin

graph                        write, written

pod/o                        foot

Suffix:

-itis                            inflammation

-0sis                          condition

-ic                               like, related to

-ology                        study of, science

5^th grade spelling words

Unit 17  Final Schwa + /l/ sounds

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    What is a normal temperature for spring?

2.    City Hall is in the central part of town.

3.    The boat sailed out into the channel.

label, angel, level, quarrel, legal, local, global, whistle, puzzle, angle, needle, struggle, bicycle, stumble, article, pupil, fossil

CHALLENGE WORDS

identical, vehicle, mineral, colonel, artificial

6^th grade spelling words

Unit 17 Final /ize/ ,  /ive/, /ij/ sounds

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    After high school, I will attend college.

2.    In her costume, I didn’t recognize her.

3.    If you criticize someone, do it kindly.

revise, memorize, organize, advertise, exercise, summarize, active, attractive, primitive, positive, sensitive, advantage, shortage, encourage,  wreckage, percentage, heritage

CHALLENGE WORDS

utilize, mortgage, merchandise, aggressive, compromise

Real World Challenge    Life Skills: College

freshman, registrar, sophomores, campus, semester, seminar, professor, collegiate

Calvin and Hobbes comic from http://thedaddydialogues.blogspot.com/2011/12/calvin-hobbes-christmas.html