Upcoming dates:

Mon, Apr 8………………………..No school

Tu, Apr 9………………………Fly tying @ 3:05

Th, Apr 11……………………..Fly tying @ 3:05

Fri, Apr 12…………………….Class Picture Day

Apr 10-12……………I am out of town; substitute

Wed, Apr 17^th ……………….NWEA test (1-3:00)

Th, Apr 18…………………… NWEA test (9:30-12)

Fri, Apr 19………………… NWEA test (10:30-12)

Reading

6^th graders: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry!—will finish this week

5^th graders:

Unit 4: Poster for Forces of Nature due Wednesday

Language

Skills: Idioms, colons & semicolons, gerunds & infinitives

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

Spelling : U 32

Math

5^th graders: Chapter 6: Ratios and Proportions

6^th graders: Percents

5^th grade Social Studies

Chapter 14  The Constitution (Test the week of the 15^th?)

Science Planets & Math

LWR  

Focus:   cor

Meaning: heart

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

Words	Definition
1.   accord (n)	a state of agreement, usually by means of a treaty
2.   accordion (n	portable wind instrument producing notes of one’s heart
3.  discord (n)	lack of agreement or harmony
4.  concord (n)	agreement reaching one heart
5.  concordance (n)	a guide to the ideas of a book, gets to the heart of the topic (a Shakespeare concordance)
6.  courage(n)	quality of having a brave heart
7.  cordial (adj)	with heart-felt warmth
8. encourage (v)	to inspire; to hearten
9.  discourage (v)	to dishearten
10.               record (v)	to put in writing the feelings of one’s heart

5th grade—

U 32 

Suffixes:  -ent, -ant, -able, -ible

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Scared rabbits run with urgency.

2.   Cows eat with great frequency.

3.   Bright lights shine with radiance.

Basic: different, difference, urgent, absent, absence, frequent, vacant, vacancy, distant, distance, infant, infancy, radiant, honorable, comfortable, possible, terrible

Challenge: evident, evidence, occupant, occupancy, capable

U 33 (next week, incase I don’t get them up due to travel)

Greek Word Parts

Dictation Sentences:

1.    Is calligraphy beautiful writing?

2.   We televise our school ball games.

3.   The symphony played lovely music.

Basic: autograph, photograph, paragraph, telegraph, biography, homograph, telephone, megaphone, saxophone, xylophone, homophone, microscope, microphone, microwave, biology, photocopy, telescope

Challenge: telecommute, bibliography, phonetic, microbe, autobiography

6th grade-

U 32 

Greek Word Parts

Dictation Sentences:

1.    In psychology we study the mind.

2.   A timeline shows a chronology.

3.   Is my story in our anthology?

Basic: geography, geology, geometry, democracy, democratic, aristocrat, aristocracy, zoology, technology, mythology, apology, thermos, thermometer, thermal, thermostat, automatic, automobile

Challenge: archaeology, geographic, bureaucracy, etymology, autocrat

Real World Vocabulary Language Arts: Reading

biography, memoirs, abridged, excerpt, autobiography, prose, genre, literature

U 33 (for next week, in case I don’t get them up due to travel)

Latin Word Roots

Dictation Sentences:

1.    How my nails need a manicure!

2.   The audience loved the play.

3.   Did Congress pass a new law?

Basic: prescribe, manuscript, contract, extract, manufacture, manual, management, progression, vocal, vocabulary, audition, eject, inject, objection, impose, expose, proposal

Challenge: manipulate, protractor, inscription, auditory, advocate

Real Word Vocabulary:  Social Studies: Manufacturing

raw materials, factory, mechanized, laborers, assembly line, foreman, machinery, specialization