Upcoming dates:

Thursday, March 21…….6^th grade: Night of the

                      Notables  6-8 PM (be there by 5:45)

Friday, March 22^nd………….Poly Dr Carnival

5 PM – 8 PM

Wednesday, March 27^th……..Report Cards AND 

                                       Early Out (noon)

Th, March 28-April 1^st…………………BREAK!

Summer Camps are coming quicker than you think! These fill quickly!  If you are interested, read about them below.

MSU-Bozeman:  Peaks and Potentials, Bozeman, MT, June 17-22, 2013, Grades 5-7
If you are interested in your child attending this camp, you will want to register as soon as possible.
Click here for an information brochure and registration form.

(http://eu.montana.edu/pdf/peaks/msupeaksbrochure.pdf)

MSU-Billings:  Kids On Campus, Billings, MT
Along with flyers that will be sent home soon, you can also access information by "clicking here".
"I Think" camps are specifically designed for the advanced learner. (http://www.msubillings.edu/kids/)

Carroll College Gifted Institute,  Helena, MT
Currently information has not been released for the summer 2013.  Search for Carroll College Gifted Institute or go to  (www.carroll.edu) Click on Academics; then Gifted.

For parents whose children take orchestra: 

The Central Area Elementary Orchestra Gala will take place on Thursday, April 4, 2013. The concert will begin at 7:30 PM in the Lincoln Education Center Auditorium. 5th and 6th grade orchestra students who attend Broadwater, Highland, McKinley, Miles Avenue, Poly Drive, Rose Park and Washington Elementary schools and the 6th graders attending Lewis & Clark Middle School will be performing on this concert. The three orchestra instructors who teach these students are Rebecca Jackman, Vikki Payne and Richele Sitton. 

We are asking students to report to Lincoln Auditorium at 6:45 PM for tuning of instruments, etc. 

Back to regular schedules. Make up MontCAS testing will continue this week. Mr. Croff gives those to the students.

Reading

6^th graders: Begin new novels

5^th graders:

Unit 4: continue with Forces of Nature

Language

Skills: Dialogue (How to use quotation marks); more figurative language

Writing—Epic continued

Spelling : U 29

Math

5^th graders: Chapter 6: Ratios and Proportions

6^th graders: Percents

5^th grade Social Studies

Chapter 13—The Revolution

Science  Out of this World--A unit on planets and space that integrates mathematics (but no "home" projects :-) 

LWR  

Focus:   port

Meaning: carry or carrying

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

Words	Definition
1.   portage (v)	The act of carrying boats and goods overland
2.  portable (adj)	easily carried
3.  portal (n)	a door or gate
4.  porter (n)	one who carries luggage
5.  support (v)	to carry or uphold
6.  transport (v)	to carry across a great distance
7.  portcullis (n)	sliding iron door hung over castle entrance
8. deportation (v)	act of carrying another away from a country
9.  deportment (n)	a manner of carrying oneself; behavior
10.               export (v)	to carry merchandise out of the country

SPELLING—U 29

5th grade—

U 29  Suffix: -ion (week of March 18^th)

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Did you vote in today’s election?

2.   The guilty person  wrote a confession.

3.   Try to relax if you feel tension.

Basic: elect, react, reaction, confess, express, expression, connect, connection, tense, decorate, decoration, pollute, pollution, imitate, imitation, educate, education

Challenge: fascinate, fascination, construct, construction

U 30 is a review unit. We skip review units.

6th grade-

29  Prefixes: de-, trans- (week of March 18^th)

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Tadpoles transform into frogs.

2.   We discussed a business transaction.

3.   Miners descend deep into the earth.

Basic: transmit, transfer, transcript, translate, decrease, determine, decision, demonstrate, deposit, detach, debate, defense, describe, decline, detour, definite, decay

Challenge delegate, transition, delinquent, transfusion, deliberate

Real World Vocabulary Social Studies: Books

scribes, quill, lampblack, parchment, vellum, vibrant, lettering, illuminated

U 30 is a review unit. We skip review units.

U 31  Words from other languages (week of March25th)

Dictation Sentences:

1.    A plaque tells who made this statue.

2.   He tilted his beret toward one ear.

3.   We hiked until fatigue overcame us.

Basic: opera, vague, antique, drama, tornado, debut, stampede, gourmet, unique, academy, sonnet, mosquito, diploma, fiesta, debris, cafeteria, quartet

Challenge: bonanza, rendezvous, et cetera, battalion, engage

Real World Vocabulary Music: Singing

classical, soloist, aria, maestro, mezzo-soprano, alto, bass, baritone

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