Mrs. Porisch's 5th & 6th Grade Class

I still am teaching, right up until the last day. Please continue to check assignment notebooks and the blog. :-)

We had a wonderful presentation by four foreign students from MSU-Billings in our class this afternoon. Thank you Abdul, Hassan, Kern, and Karena.

Enjoy the images at the end of the blog!

Upcoming dates:

Monday, April 29^th 7:15-8:15…..Volunteer Breakfast

Friday, May 3^rd …………….………No school

Every Friday Morning:…………. Fun Runs!

Monday, May 13^th Bike to School Week starts

Wednesday, May 15… 6th grade to tour Lewis

Wednesday, May 15th…last intermediate conditioning club

Thursday, May…………… Band Concert 2:10

Friday, May 1…………. library books are due

Tuesday, May 21……………………… Poly BBQ

Thursday, May 23^r……… Orchestra Concert

May 23^rd………..5^th graders only Hooked on

Fishing Field trip

May 24th …………………………....…..Field Day

Reading

6^th graders: Begin Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

5^th graders:

Beginning Literature Circles (students will be reading a novel and discussing it) The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Language

Skills:

Writing—Epic printed out; work on cover, illustrations.

Spelling : U 35

Math

5^th graders: Algebra and Integers

6^th graders: Math Counts ws AND Translations, Rotations, Reflections, and Dilations

5^th grade Social Studies

Chapter 14 The Constitution—corrections due on Monday

Begin Chapter 15 The Bill of Rights

Science Planets & Math

LWR

Focus: spec, spic

Meaning: look (see)

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


Words	Definition
1. suspicious (adj)	distrustful-looking
2. speculate (v)	to see a mental picture
3. spectacle (n)	a noteworthy sight to see
4. specter (n)	a ghostly vision
5. specimen (n)	a sample that looks like all those of the same group
6. speculum (n)	a mirror used to look in body cavities
7. conspicuous (adj)	very easy to see; noticeable
8. spectator (n)	an onlooker
9. retrospective ()	a look back at the past
10. spectrum (n)	colors one sees when light is broken into waves, as with a prism

5^th grade

U 35-- The week of April 29^th

More Words from Other Languages

Dictation Sentences:

1. My khaki pants are a light brown color.

2. A person with brown hair is a brunette.

3. That is a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Basic: ballet, cassette, coupon, portrait, barrette, depot, courtesy, petite, denim, buffet, gazette, crochet, essay, echo, safari, chorus, alphabet

Challenge: encore, collage, matinee, premiere, embarrass

6th grade

U 35--The week of April 30^th

Words often confused

Dictation Sentences:

1. I will emigrate from my country.

2. My conscience will keep me honest.

3. Al’s Diner was formerly Ed’s Diner.

Basic: desert, dessert, hardy, hearty, moral, morale, laying, lying, personal, personnel, formally, bizarre, bazaar, precede, proceed, conscious, immigrate

Challenge: sympathy, empathy, imminent, eminent

Real Word Vocabulary: Careers: Office Jobs

maintenance, mailroom, corporate, bookkeeper, administrative, vice president, deliveries, extension