Upcoming dates:

Tuesday………….5^th grade field trip (they need

                                 to bring a lunch!)

Tuesday………….Staff vs 6^th graders—volleyball

                             after school  J

Wednesday……..Spelling Bee @ 1:30 in gym

Thursday…………Talent Show @ Lewis & Clark (dinner @ 5 PM; 6^th grade rehearse on stage @ 6 PM)

Reading

5^th graders:

Unit 4: Forces of Nature

6^th graders:  Work on comic for novels

Language

Skills: analogies; 5^th: contractions  6^th: Infinitive phrases & reflexive pronouns & expressions

Writing—Compare/Contrast formats--finish

Spelling—U 26

Math

5^th graders: Chapter 6: Ratios and Proportions

6^th graders: Percents

5^th grade Social Studies

Ch 9: Finish notes on Colonial Williamsburg; Begin Chapter 10: Tensions between the Colonies and Britain

Science Fair………………Results and conclusions due this week

Inventions……………..Survey and advertisement due this week

Science— Color and light—Students who want to bring their own item for their hologram should have it here by Thursday (should be shorter than a standard envelope). I have items to use if they do not have one. They should be shiny or smooth (plastic, metal). Do not bring any items that are made of fabric.

Science Fair/Invention Project: All projects are due the week of March 4^th. We will draw names/sticks on Monday to determine which day students will present that week. If a particular day is needed due to transportation issues, just email or call me. We can arrange that. Students working with a partner need to be prepared to present on their own in case their partner is ill.

Science fair notebooks (sloppy copy) and invention logs need to be compiled and turned in on the day of the presentation.

Call me to set up a time to come in. I can be flexible. SAT, Feb 23rd or SUN, Feb 24^th

LWR  

Focus:   flam, pyro

Meaning: fire

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

Words	Definition
1.   flammable (adj)	easily set on fire
2.  pyre (n)	pile of wood for burning a dead body
3.  flamboyant (adj)	showy, with flame-like curves
4.  pyrotechnics (n)	fireworks
5.  inflammatory (adj)	tending to fire up emotions
6.  inflammation (n)	infection marked by redness and heat
7.  pyrite (n)	fool’s gold; mineral that can strike fire
8. pyrophobia (n)	fear of fire
9.  pyrography (n)	art of word-burning, usually done on wood or leather
10.               pyromania (n)	persistent impulse to set fires

5^th grade spelling words

U 26 Final /ij/, /iv/, /is/ sounds

Dictation Sentences:

1.    We keep our skis in storage during May.

2.   Each tasty olive has a pit inside.

3.   The hotel staff provides good service.

garbage, courage, passage, voyage, knowledge, image, average, postage, luggage, language, relative, native, creative, detective, adjective, justice, cowardice

Challenge Words: prejudice, cooperative, beverage, heritage, apprentice

6^th grade spelling words

U 26 Prefix: ad- (and variations of ad-)

Dictation Sentences:

1. The weather can affect your mood.

2. Doctors advise eating a healthy diet.

3. How can we accomplish our goal?

advice, addition, adjust, accident, acquire, account, according, accept, accompany, affair, approve, appetite, applaud, assign, assist, assemble, assure

Challenge Words:

assess, adolescent, accumulate, affinity, appropriate

Real-World Vocabulary   Life Skills: Product information

implements, procedure, sequence, warranty, guarantees, defects, refundable, satisfaction

Calvin and Hobbies cartoon from http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

Upcoming dates:

Thurs, Fri, Mon………………...…no school

Tues, Feb 19^th……………............return to school!  J

Th, February 21^st ………....………auction

Tu, Feb 26th..........5th graders field trip
(permission slip will come home in Wed. Watch)

Reading

5^th graders:

Unit 4: Forces of Nature

6^th graders:  

Language

Skills: analogies, 6^th grade: parallel structure; 5^th grade: prepositional phrases

Writing—Compare/Contrast formats (still)

Spelling—U 25

Math

5^th graders: Dividing fractions

6^th graders: Finding similar & congruent shapes geometric shapes using ratios

5^th grade Social Studies

Ch 9: Colonial Williamsburg

Science Fair………………Graphs, tables, charts (a parent signature saying you are working on these is enough if you don’t have the data yet).

Inventions……………..SCAMPER technique on one of their ideas

Science— Color and light

Next weekend, I will be available to help students at school. SAT, Feb 23rd from 10 –noon and SUN, Feb 24^th from 1-3 are the days & times. The students can knock on the windows or call me ahead of time.

LWR  For the week of February 19^th (Tuesday)

Focus: cap 

Meaning: head

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

Words	Definition
1.   cape (n)	A sleeveless garment fastened at the neck, hanging over the back and shoulders
2.  caparison (n)	A horse’s parade headdress
3.  captain (n)	headman, leaders
4.  capitalism (n)	an economic system in which individuals invest in industries
5.  recapitulate (v)	to go back over the head or main parts
6.  capricious (adj)	apt to change one's mind quickly
7.  capital (n)	chief; seat of government
8. cap (n)	A covering for the head
9.  capitulate (v)	To give one’s head to the enemy; surrender
10.               decapitate	To behead

5^th grade spelling words For the week of February 19^th (Tuesday)

U 25 Final /n/, /un/, /char/, or /zher/

Dictation Sentences:

1.    What a huge creature the blue whale is!

2.   A new feature is at the movie theater.

3.   We hiked up the steep mountain.

certain, villain, captain, surgeon, curtain, fountain, nature, future, mixture, departure, texture, gesture, furniture, adventure, pleasure, treasure, measure

Challenge Words:

leisure, sculpture, architecture, chieftain, enclosure

6^th grade spelling words For the week of February 19^th (Tuesday)

U 25 Prefixes: per-, pre-, pro-

Dictation Sentences:

1. Freeze the meat to preserve it.

2. My science project is on tidal waves.

3. My forehead drips when I perspire.

perfume, permanent, persuade, prepaid, prehistoric, precaution, presence, previous, pronounce, prohibit, provoke, pronoun, profit, process, production, profile, profession

Challenge Words:

propel, preposition, prominent, preliminary, perception

Real-World Vocabulary   Social Studies: Prehistoric Art

carvings, pigment, pictograph, nomadic, migration, petroglyph, incised, descendants

Calvin and Hobbies cartoon from http://worldofcalvinandhobbes.blogspot.com/2008/02/calvin-susie-and-valentine-day.html