Happy New Week Everyone! There are new Spelling words for the week. Spelling Word work will be due on Friday as usual. We are starting a new theme for all grades this week.
Remember that Science fair projects are due in the next couple of weeks (March 18th) and students should have already chosen a project topic. These projects count as significant grades for the upcoming quarter, so great care should be taken in preparing and presenting the topics.
REMINDER: NO school tomorrow on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Teachers will be attending a staff development day out of town. School resumes Wednesday, February 25, 2015.
Spelling Words for this week are:
5th/6th Grade:
Words with final -en, -er sounds.
hasten
quarter
senior
monitor
cannon
popular
unspoken
character
golden
processor
moisten
forgotten
congratulation
altogether
escalator
administer
accordion
unfasten
surrender
elevator
Bonus: Nineveh, Tarshish, Joppa, expenditure, convulsion
7th/8th:
Latin root words: voc, vok, reg, dom, reign, doc.
regiment
evoke
documentary
revocable
vocalization
dominance
regulate
advocacy
indomitable
sovereign
dominator
regimentation
invoke
regulator
convocation
predominant
dominion
vocation
provoker
docudrama
Remember word work for the week is the following: Words five times each, Definitions, Words used in Sentences, and a Spelling pre-test administered at home.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday, February 9, 2015
Happy New Week! February 9-13, 2015
Happy New Week Parents! I trust you had a restful week. I have quite a bit of information to share with you for this week's work and homework.
This week we are studying the life cycle of a frog and I would like for you to have your students review their notes on the metamorphosis or change of a from egg to tadpole to adult please have your students watch the following videos:
Spelling words for 7th and 8th this week consists of words that are easily misspelled. Remember that there is word work each day to practice using the words. Here is the list:
7-8th: Commonly misspelled—escapades, solidifies, victimize, arthritis, susceptible, crystals, encyclopedia, juiciest, ancestral, scorpion, competitive, increasingly, planetary, triangular, beneficial, liquefy, synthetic, conquering, luxuries, delicately Bonus: definitely, microfiche, electrocardiogram, demography, genealogy.
This week we are studying the life cycle of a frog and I would like for you to have your students review their notes on the metamorphosis or change of a from egg to tadpole to adult please have your students watch the following videos:
Student will be creating a mini lesson on the life cycle of a frog for my evaluation so please have students review and know the stages of a frog's life cycle and the correct names/events for each part.
Spelling words for this week consist of words that writers use. Remember that there is word work each day to practice using the words. Here is the list:
Spelling Words: 5-6th: Words writers use—article, outlining, narrative, summaries, paradox, introductory, accurate, confidence, analogy, agreement, astonished, manuscript, techniques, proofreading, exaggeration, personification, impression, reflections, autobiography, otherwise. Bonus: dejected, pirouettes, sleuthing, eerily, prosperous.
Spelling words for 7th and 8th this week consists of words that are easily misspelled. Remember that there is word work each day to practice using the words. Here is the list:
7-8th: Commonly misspelled—escapades, solidifies, victimize, arthritis, susceptible, crystals, encyclopedia, juiciest, ancestral, scorpion, competitive, increasingly, planetary, triangular, beneficial, liquefy, synthetic, conquering, luxuries, delicately Bonus: definitely, microfiche, electrocardiogram, demography, genealogy.
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