Good Day Everyone!

Here are this week's words for the Spelling test on Monday:

5th and 6th Grades:

Words for this week are words containing the final /n/ (en, on, in)  and controlled r (or, ir, er, ur) sounds:

eaten
motor
copper
mirror
dozen
solar
bargain
captain
another
citizen
section
mission
solution
remember
million
moccasin
fountain
skeleton
kindergarten
nurture

Challenge Words:
Wittenberg, reformation

7th and 8th Grades:

Words for this week are now using roots from the Greek. Pay close attention to the roots and meanings in order to better understand the words and how to spell them. The roots are as follows: hydr= water; metr, meter= device for measuring; pyr, pyro=fire, heat, fever.

hydrofoil
chronic
speedometer
hydroplane
kilometer
synchronous
chronicles
dehydrated
pyromania
hydrographic
 barometer
trigonometry
chronological
decimeter
hydrochloric
metronome
hydrometer
pyrotechnics
chronoscope
geometry

Challenge Words:

Huguenot
mademoiselle

This theme's board words are as follows:

Huguenots
Pierre
La Brun
Grand-pere
Henri
Pastor Foudray
La Rochelle
Edict of Nantes
dragonnade

Use your theme books : Strangers in the Land  to find the words (list the page number), find the meaning from the context, and tell whether the word is a  person, place, or thing.


All Grades:
This week's Spelling test will be Monday, February 24, 2014. All word work is to  be completed and turned in by Monday for all grades.

Good evening Parents! There will be no Spelling words this week. We are finishing up our theme stories  for 5th-8th and practicing our essay writing. Homework today is as follows

5th- 6th Grades:

Monday: Complete first draft of essays on Responsibility. Read Social Studies Chapter 3: The Economy (p 86-88)  and answer the review questions on p 88. Read Chapter 4-1 Characteristics of Fish p.70-72. Complete review it questions on p 72.

7th-8th Grades:

Monday: Complete essays on topic of your choice. Be sure to have a Focus question about your topic (main idea), an outline, and paragraphs reflecting the sections of your outlines.

Update to Homework information

Good Morning Parents and Students! There is a correction on the assignments for this week listed in the previous post. Fifth and Sixth Grade Parents: Please disregard the Arizona Oral report information listed in homework. Only 7th and 8th Grade are doing the Arizona presentation for language arts. 5th and 6th Grade's presentations are for Science (Mammal Order Oral report) which are due today.

Good afternoon Parents! Here are this week's spelling words:

5th and 6th Grade: We are doing review words of all the letter sounds and endings including controlled /r/ and al, el, il, and le:

loyal

panel

parcel

tickle

scramble

aware

barely

charcoal

macaroni

apartment

modern

energy

aspirin

furniture

operation

decorate

alligator

disappear

fortune

ordinary

Challenge Words:

aerial

elliptical

meticulously

rivalry

synchronized

7th and 8th Grade:

projector

confluence

fluency

bankruptcy

contractor

missionaries

predecessor

emotionally

centipede

corpse

nondescript

manifesto

manufacturer

emancipation

scriptural

inspiration

populace

inspiring

paternal

maternity

Challenge Words:

embers

precipice

gulches

placidly

delirium

Home Work (all grades):

Monday-3 times each, Essay Outline and Arizona reports due Tuesday, Handwriting lesson 8 due Friday.

Tuesday-Definitions, Complete Essay (due Friday)

Wednesday-Sentences

Thursday-Pre-Test

Friday--Test