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Spelling Words for this Week

Good Evening! As promised, here are this week's Spelling words and the links to Spelling City. You may practice your words on Spelling City to help you to better acquaint yourselves with the words in a more fun and creative way. Spelling Word work is still due on the date specified in yesterday's post found here:  November 10-14 Post. Use the following links to access the lists, activities and worksheet helps:

Spelling City 5th and 6th

Spelling City 7th and 8th

Words for 5th and 6th Grades:

1.	usual
2.	arise
3.	visual
4.	leisure
5.	tease
6.	version
7.	enterprise
8.	treasury
9.	bronze
10.	seasonal
11.	recognize
12.	trousers
13.	Louisiana
14.	optimism
15.	advertise
16.	compromise
17.	symbolize
18.	civilize
19.	composure
20.	diseases

Spelling Words for 7th and 8th Grades:

1.	graphology
2.	microcircuit
3.	biology
4.	parallelogram
5.	microphone
6.	photography
7.	astronomy
8.	microscope
9.	grammatical
10.	ecology
11.	cablegram
12.	microbe
13.	hectograph
14.	asteroid
15.	geology
16.	microwave
17.	spectrogram
18.	mythology
19.	asterism
20.	sociology

November 10-14.

Happy New Week Everyone!

I hope the weekend proved to be restful to everyone and we are ready to get into the swing of things to learn.

This week will be very busy for all as there are a number of events to keep in mind:

Wednesday, November 12, 2014--Picture day. Students are allowed to take a set of pictures in non-uniform clothes, but must take pictures in uniform for the yearbook. Also, Wednesday is a uniform day so students must return to uniform after pictures are taken. You may pre-order your pictures with the envelopes sent home earlier last week. If not, you may order pictures online.

Thursday, November 13, 2014--Thanksgiving luncheon for Pre-school to Grade 8. I hope that you will join us for this special occasion. We will send information home soon in order to get an accurate count of how many will attend.

Please don't forget the Great American Teach-In next week on Thursday, November 20, 2014. If you are interested in coming and sharing your career (what you do) with our students please contact Ms. Francine Brown at mcjakindergarten@gmail.com for more information and to give her an accurate count of who is coming.

Homework this week: 

Spelling Word Work for List 1 of new Theme Book: Spelling words 5 times each, words defined, words in a sentence, Pre-Test signed by parents/guardian/helper. I will list a link to the words on Spelling City today. (Due Friday, November 14, 2014)

Students need twigs for Wednesday's craft by Tuesday. (Due November 11, 2014)

Review Spanish Lesson 1 and all notes for a quiz this Wednesday. (Due November 12, 2014)

Review Art notes on space and form for a quiz this Wednesday. (Due November 12, 2014)

Review Science Vocabulary from lessons 1-2 this week for a quiz onWednesday. Know the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Know the classification breakdown of a common housecat (8 classifications). (Due Wednesday November 12, 2014)

Good Afternoon! Today's homework is as follows:

Spelling-- Word Work (words 5 times, definitions, words in a sentence, pretest done with parent/partner)  All word work is due on Friday, November 7, 2014.

Here are this week's spelling words: (5-6th) peanut butter, headphones, campsite, old-fashioned, VIP (very important person), B.C. (before Christ), OR (Oregon), pkg. (package), roller coaster, make-believe, thunderstorm, semi-sweet, angel, align, personnel, breadth, Gal. (Galatians), hosp. (hospital), RADAR (radio detecting and ranging).

Science-- Complete today's fact research about Galapagos Tortoises the 8 classifications of the  Galapagos Tortoise. Extra credit-- Compare and contrast the Galapagos Tortoise and the Common Housecat (Felis catus) by using a Venn Diagram or a T-chart. Look below for example of each.