Upcoming dates:

Read-a-thon………..keep track of minutes read

Project due dates this week

By FRIDAY (can be turned in earlier)

·     Sci Fair: Hypothesis, materials

·     Inventions: Drawings (sloppy copy)

Reading

5^th graders:

Unit 4: Forces of Nature

6^th graders:  WWII novels

Language

Skills: analogies, superlatives (good, better, best)

Writing—Cause and effect format

Spelling—U 22

Math

5^th graders: Writing story problems with fractions, dividing fractions

6^th graders: Finding similar geometric shapes  using ratios

5^th grade Social Studies

Ch 8: Facing Slavery

Science— Color and light

I will be available in FEBRUARY on 2 different dates to help students with any aspect of their projects: compiling/analyzing data, generating graphs, organizing science fair display boards, etc. These dates are: SAT, Feb 23rd from 10 –noon and SUN, Feb 24^th from 1-3. I will be at school. The students can knock on the windows or call me ahead of time.

LWR  Kids need to start studying (practicing writing the definitions) on Monday! The quizzes have not been spectacular.

Focus: prim, prin, proto   

Meaning: first, basic

The quizzes will be a combination of the words AND their definitions, rather than prefix, root, and suffix definitions.

Words	Definition
1.   principle (n)	a basic truth
2.  prima dona (n)	most important female opera singer
3.  protocol (n)	rules governing government ceremonies
4.  primer (n)	first book, elementary reading book
5.  primeval (adj)	belonging to the first years
6.  prince (n)	first-born son of a king
7.  primogenitor (n)	first ancestor
8. principality (n)	territory belonging to a son of a king
9.  protagonist (n)	the first,most important character in a book or play
10.               primary (n)	the first, most important, basic

5^th grade spelling words

Unit 22 Suffixes: -ful, -ly –ness, -less, -ment

Dictation Sentences:

1.   Did Mac speak calmly or nervously?

2.   The songs made the play delightful.

3.   Don’t fear that harmless snake.

watchful, countless, forgetful, effortless, plentiful, lately, steadily, noisily, settlement, closeness, government, agreement, cloudiness, tardiness, forgiveness, enjoyment, appointment

Challenge Words:

suspenseful, merciless, seriousness, contentment, suspiciously

6^th grade spelling words

Unit 22 Plurals

Dictation Sentences:

1.   She ate both halves of the pear.

2.   Artists are working in their studios.

3.   We ate fish, spinach, and potatoes.

solos, cliffs, pianos, sheriffs, cellos, ratios, stereos, echoes, heroes, volcanoes, tomatoes, leaves, scarves, calves, wolves, yourselves, bookshelves

Challenge Words:

vetoes, mosquitoes, avacadoes, wharves, sopranos

Real-World Vocabulary   Probability

mathematical, outcome, likely, estimate, predication, proportion, inequality, occurrence

Calvin and Hobbies cartoon from http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/political-economy-of-calvin-and-hobbes-1.html