Grade 5-6 News 9-30-14

This week in class…

In religion this week we have been studying God’s creation and the ladder of creation. Ask your child about the ladder of creation which includes God, angels, humans, animals, plants, and non-living things

In Social we are studying about the Israelites, Phoenicians and Lydians in our study of ancient empires. Ask your child what monotheism means.

I have decided to permanently move the distribution day for my newsletter to Wednesday. It is difficult to send a newsletter home to you on Tuesday, especially if we do not have school on Monday. I hope this will not be an inconvenience to anyone.

Next Week

We will have our first meeting for K-Kids on Tuesday, October 7^th during our Religion period from 8:15am – 8:45am. Mr. Wagner from the Laramie Kiwanis Club will be here to help elect officers and lead our group.

 

Book It

I sent home a letter and explanation for a reading incentive program called Book It. We will be participating in this program for six months. Each student’s goal is to read for 20 minutes a day, seven days a week. This is reading “outside” of school. Our goal is weekly minutes, thus the weekly goal is 140 minutes which comes to 2 hours and 15 minutes a week.

 

Homework Corner

If your child does not finish an assignment during class then I will send it home to complete. Ask your child if they finished their math homework and if they completed their questions in our novel. I will be assigning questions after each chapter, or portion of a chapter, that we read this week. Please don’t forget our Unit 5 Spelling Test on Thursday!

 

This Week’s Spelling List

Test 10/02/14 Retest 10/03/14

Unit 5 Vocabulary

1. fierce

2. sword

3. court

4. snarl

5. thorn

6. earth

7. skirt

8. chart

9. urge

10. yarn

11. whirl

12. mourn

13. rehearse

14. curb

15. earnest

16. starch

17. purse

18. birch

19. pierce

20. scorn

21. pearl

22. stir

23. torch

24. pour

25. scar

26. circumstances

27. turmoil

28. absurd

29. forfeit

30. sparse

*Note: words 26-30 are EXTRA CREDIT

 

Next Week’s Spelling List

Test 10/09/14 Retest 10/10/14

Unit 6 Vocabulary Review Part 1

1. craft

2. grill

3. wreck

4. plump

5. strict

6. prompt

7. bomb

8. pledge

9. sunk

10. brass

11. strive

12. league

13. mute

14. file

15. theme

16. strain

17. gaze

18. throne

19. roam

20. fume

21. pleasant

22. ravine

23. cycle

24. myth

25. routine

26. thread

27. rhythm

28. sponge

29. shove

30. deny

*There will be no extra credit words this week

I am seeing improvement in spelling scores. I am very proud of this class! Next week we will begin Unit 6 which is a review unit. There are 60 words to review so I am breaking this chapter into two parts. We will have 30 words each week. The only difference will be that there are no extra credit words. I will test on all 30 words.

Where are we in our novel?

We will be finishing our novel by the end of this week. Next week we will take time to analyze characters, events, internal and external conflicts, and literary elements. We will then have a test over the novel, most likely at the beginning of the following week which will be the week of October 13^th. I will announce the exact date in my next newsletter.