Spelling Week 27

Spelling for this next week.

1. fantastic

2. culture*

3. curious

4. nervous

5. posture

6. jealous

7. scientific

8. generous

9. signature

10. dangerous

11. tragic

12. gigantic

13. sculpture

14. precious

15. lecture

16. serious

17. specific

18. fracture

19. romantic

20. ambitious*

Review

21. panic

22. future

23. comic

24. furniture

25. frantic

Challenge

26. symbolic*

27. unanimous*

28. authentic*

29. nutritious

30. legislature

*Indicates a vocabulary word

Student of the Week: Jessie Abbott

Jessie's wordle based on her pyramid. Jessie was our student of the week this week, 3/21-3/25.

Spelling Week 26

Spelling for this week

1. accident
2. advice
3. approve
4. acquire
5. affect*
6. assign
7. addition
8. assist
9. account
10. affair
11. according
12. appetite
13. applaud
14. accept
15. adjust
16. accomplish
17. assemble
18. advise
19. accompany*
20. assure

Review

21. accuse
22. adjective
23. assume*
24. adventure
25. appear

Challenge

26.assess
27.adolescent*
28.accumulate
29.affinity*
30.appropriate

*Indicates Vocabulary words

Thursday, March 17

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!! Don't forget it is SEP night. We look forward to seeing you! Spelling/Vocabulary: Reading: We will be finishing up the Lightning Thief on Monday :( I'm sad to see it come to an end. We've all enjoyed reading this action-packed book! Writing: To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we worked on Limericks. We learned what a Limerick is and how to write one. We practiced writing Limericks and put our favorite ones on a Leprechaun face. Look for these to be displayed during SEPs! Math: The students have been studying the customary and metric measuring units. It is always fun to see their opinions change from the beginning of the unit to the end. They start off only liking customary because the metric is foreign to them; by the end they think it is so much easier and would rather use metric measurements. Social Studies: We have begun to learn about the Middle Ages that took place all around the world from 500-1500 ad. Science: The students did a wonderful job on their presentations. They were very creative!

Spelling Week 25

Spelling for this next week:

Basic

1. preserve
2. project
3. pronounce*
4. prepaid
5. prohibit
6. provoke*
7. prehistoric
8. perspire
9. pronoun
10. perfume
11. precaution*
12. profit
13. permanent
14. persuade
15. presence
16. previous
17. process
18. production
19. profile
20. profession

Review

21. prefer
22. prospect
23. preview
24. performing
25. protect
    

Challenge

26. propel
27. preposition*
28. prominent*
29. preliminary
30. perception

*Indicates a vocabulary word

Student of the Week: Cameron Rennie

Cameron's wordle based on his pyramid. Cameron was our student of the week this week, 3/7-3/11.

Friday, March 11

*We had Fun Friday today. Any work not turned in by 3:15 will remain a permanent zero in the gradebook.*

Spelling/Vocabulary: Vocabulary test was today. Grades will be posted as soon as possible. Next week, we'll be back to a regular spelling list.

Reading: We are almost done with The Lightning Thief! We will be finishing it up next week and then work on some life-size characters from the book! We also learned about advertising techniques and then incorporated those techniques into an advertisement for Crusty's Waterbed Palace. Look for these in the classroom during SEPs.

Writing: We continued doing some quickwrites and journal prompts. We also learned about idioms. Ask your student what idiom they chose to draw. Next week we'll work on our persuasive essays.

Math: The students continued to graph functions and went on to learning about angles and how to measure them. We worked with a protractor; to my surprise many students had never used one before. We did a "Math Dance" to learn new transformation vocabulary. Ask your student to show you the wonderful dance and point out the vocabulary words.

Science: The students should be researching different parts on the Solar System with a partner. Their information is due on Tuesday with a visual aid. They will be teaching the class about their topic.

Social Studies: We continued to watch Ben Hur this week.

Vocabulary Test

The unit vocabulary test will be Friday, March 11^th. The following is a list of the 25 vocabulary words:

Truancy

Fragrant

Buoyancy

Reluctant

Evident

Irritable

Audible

Considerate

Sensible

Exaggerate

Crucial

Suspicion

Imitation

Diminish

Efficient

Vetoes

Ratios

Duties

Abilities

Wharves

Dispose

Dissolve

Distort

Expiration

Interact

You will need to understand the definition, know antonyms and synonyms, and be able to put the word in a sentence.

Remember that you should have completed your unit vocabulary log. You may take it home to study. This will be due on Friday, March 11th right before the vocabulary test.

It is important that you are studying your words at home!

Friday, March 4

Spelling/Vocabulary: We finished up our last week of spelling words before the vocabulary test which is Friday, March 11th. Students need to be sure to be studying the word definitions, antonyms, and synonyms. Make sure you STUDY!!!

Reading: We've been doing some fun comprehension lessons with visualization. One of our favorite lessons used the book Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook. We continued reading the Lightning Thief. We started making modern gods/goddess with partners. Look for these to be hanging in the hallway during SEPs.

Writing: We continued to respond to daily Lightning Thief journal prompts. We also did a couple of "quickwrites" where we wrote everything we could think of about a topic for one minute. This will help students develop writing fluency. We learned about the "RAFT" method of writing. Ask your student what they did for their "RAFT" assignment.

Math: Students were very busy this week taking their integer test on Monday and their 7th grade math placement test on Tuesday. We will not be finding out their scores for a very long time. They also started graphing functions this week.

Science: The students took their end of Unit test on Moon Phases. They will start learning about the Solar System next week with Mr. Groneman.

Social Studies: We have started watching Ben Hur. This is a long movie that was filmed in 1959 but I feel that it really helps the students see what Rome was like at that time. They see what the places looked like, get a feel for how the people lived, dressed, fought, and what they did for entertainment.

Junior High Field Trip Tomorrow

Just a reminder that tomorrow we will be walking to the Junior High to see a Shakespeare play. Students need to be on time, wear good shoes and dress appropriately for the weather.