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