Reading: Good-bye to the Moon
Amazing Words: weightlessly, vastness, hub, perpetual, habitation, infinity, speculation, hydroponic, ecology-conscious, reusable energy Lesson Vocabulary: waning, dingy, waft, combustion, traversed, negotiated Skills: Compare and Contrast, Context Clues, Shades of Meaning Spelling List: Schwa Sound different sentence American brilliant substitute opinion material complete jewelry dramatic instance desperate communicate hesitate elementary vitamin ingredients invitation discipline lasagna Challenge Words: inhabitant infinity Conventions: Subject-Verb Agreement Happy Thanksgiving!!!
This week’s work will include Wed. Thurs. Fri. and then Mon. Tues. Creative Spelling is due on Friday along with the pre-test, and the post-test will be Monday. Reading: Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs Spelling List: ancestor hospital grumble sponsor superior escalator encounter shoulder skeleton forbidden appetizer identical abandon governor endeavor outspoken durable lengthen cinnamon interior Challenge words: Interpreter accelerator Amazing Words: archaeologist inquisitive preserved Potsherds mesas earthenware irrigate Dwelling anthropologist reconstruction Thank you to all the parents and kids that were able to make it in for conferences! If you were unable to attend but would like to touch base, please just let me know and we can schedule a time. Due to the shortened weeks this week and next week, we will be doing the story over both. The students will not have creative spelling due until next Tuesday and the testing will be next week also.
The kids do have a project due this Wednesday. Using Page 216 of their text book they are to create Qin's Tomb. This is their interpretation of what it could look like. They need to design, label and color this project for maximum points earned. Grades Due to Office by Wednesday and Veterans Day Friday Reading:The Emperor's Silent Army Amazing Words - paleontologists, extraction, quarry, tomb, explanation, replica, formation, vestige, penetrated, craftsmen Vocabulary Words- approximately, divine, excavated, mechanical, pottery, restore, superstitious, terra cotta Concepts - suffixes (-ful, -ly, -al), main idea and details, Latin roots Words with Latin Roots Spelling List suspend pendant conductor novel productive numeral reserve numerous preserve pending pendulum deduction novelty numerator reservoir appendix induct innovative impending conservatory Challenge Words: aqueduct, perpendicular This reading unit will go very well with the work the kids have been doing in World History. Hopefully the information they have already learned will add to the lessons in our reading classes. As a reminder, the Creative Spelling Lessons are always due on the Tuesday of the test. If we are not testing, then the kids have a week off, and it resumes with the next spelling list. I hope everyone survived Halloween and the WKCE Testing again this year. It is always an interesting time of the school year for everyone! There is not going to be a new spelling list this week, and we will be finishing up our story from last week. With the events of this week (WKCE and Halloween) we are going to concentrate on finishing up the story of the Universe. Enjoy the break on spelling!
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