Homework over your winter break...

The only that you have to do over break is catch up with any late work, including RC quizzes.  AND...enjoy your family and time off!  Be ready to come back January 4th, rested, relaxed, and ready to work!

Polar Express reward day

Mariah keeps cool spelling and vocabulary

If you get bored...here are your new spelling and vocabulary words for the week of January 4th. The test will be on January 8th/.

Mariah Keeps Cool Spelling Words
district   address   complain   explain
improve   farther   simply   hundred
although   laughter   mischief   complex
partner   orphan   constant   dolphin
employ   sandwich   monster   orchard

Click here to play some games with your words


Mariah Keeps Cool Vocabulary Definitions
Test will be the second week of January!

1. amazingly - in a way that causes surprise or wonder.
2. celebration - a special activity that honors a person, event, or idea.
3. decorate - to make festive or beautiful.
4. detain - to delay or hold back.
5. festive - joyful or merry.
6. honor - to show respect for.
7. reluctant - unwilling to take action.
8. spectators - persons who watch an event or performance.
9. suspects - believes without being sure.
10. volunteered - to offer to do something of one’s own free will, usually without being paid.
11. staples - basic foods or other commodities always produced and sold in large amounts because of steady demand.
12. stifle - to hold back or suppress.

Click here to practice your vocabulary words

12-17-15

Homework: Read 20 minutes

Tomorrow is our PJ and Polar Express movie in the afternoon.

Remember to send in your box tops!  The contest runs until January 22!

Tomorrow is our last day before Winter Break. We'll resume classes January 4th.

12-16-15

Homework tonight:
Kids who have to retake the spelling test, study for tomorrow.

Read 20 minutes

RC #7 was due yesterday, but the next one is not due until January 15th.  This is a perfect time, for kids who are behind to catch up! Read over break!!

12-15-15

Homework tonight:

NOT A PARTY, PARTY NOTICE  

Please allow your 5^th grader to bring a drink & snack to enjoy tomorrow, Wed., Dec. 16^th.  Students will be celebrating the Holidays during Study Hall. With your permission, they may bring one board game.

Thank you,

                                        Your 5^th grade teachers 

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BOX tops

Winter box tops contest: Now through January 22

Collect box tops over the holidays and return them after break! The winning class gets a surprise!

12-14-15

Homework:

RC #7 due tomorrow

Spelling rewrites: If you didn't pass last week's spelling test, rewrite the words you missed 5 times each. We'll have a retest on Thursday

Vocabulary worksheet: Use your James Forten vocabulary words (in your folder) 

This should help to study for tomorrow's vocabulary test. Study for your vocabulary test!

Wednesday: At study hall time the kids are allowed to bring their favorite board game and a snack.

Friday: Wear your pjs.  We are going to watch the Polar Express at the high school in the afternoon!  

12-10-15

We had a very busy day today! We took the Reading Counts quiz over Katie's trunk. We studied for our vocabulary test on a game called kahoot. The kids did some word processing around the topic of people who were trailblazers in their field. We also worked on our summarizing skills using some Revolutionary War videos. They worked hard! I am very proud of them today.

Homework:
Read 20 minutes
 Study for tomorrow's spelling test
 Make sure your late work is caught up!

12-9-15

Homework for tonight:
Integrity paragraph: 5 or more sentences about a time when you did the right thing, even when it was hard.
Rewrites for spelling: if you didn't pass the pretest
Spelling test Friday over James Forten words
Vocabulary test next week: Use this link to practice https://quizlet.com/19041045/james-forten-reading-vocabulary-words-and-definitions-flash-cards/

Grade reports and other important things....

My grade reports are coming home today and tomorrow!  Mine do not have to be signed and returned, but please be on the lookout for them.  If you have any questions, please contact me!

Remember to sign and return the technology note!

RC#7 is due next Tuesday, quiz #8 will be due on January 15th!  That'll give some kids time to catch up!

Homework for tonight:
Read 20 minutes
Any late work???
Spelling test on Friday

Behavior Reward PBIS party (2nd quarter)

2^nd Quarter PBIS Reward Party for students who have earned it, will be held on December 18^th.  Students will have a pajama day and go to the HS Auditorium to watch “Polar Express”. 

K-4 students will attend in the morning from 8:30 until approximately 10:30.  5-6 students will attend in the afternoon from 1:00 to approximately 3:00.

5^th/6^th will have regular specials schedule in the a.m. They will receive hot cocoa/cookies in the lunchroom during the last 10 mintutes of their specials time.

K-4 will have an alternate specials schedule this day. They will start in the music room and end with hot cocoa/cookies in the art room.

K-4 Specials schedule is as follows:

3rd         10:30-11:00

4^th           11:00-11:30

Kdg        11:30-12:00

2^nd          12:30-1:00

1^st           1:00-1:30

Have a Great Holiday Season!

PBIS Rewards Committe

12-7-15

Homework:
Parent signatures on Technology note
Read 20 minutes
page 304 (questions after the Katie's trunk story)
Conjunction quiz corrections (if you got a D or an F on the quiz)
Pretest tomorrow over James Forten words

James Forten Spelling and vocabulary words

James Forten Vocabulary Definitions (Test 12-15)
1. abolitionists - persons who felt that slavery should be against the law.
2. apprentice - someone who works for another person in order to learn a trade.
3. assisted - helped, aided.
4. captives - prisoners.
5. conflict - a struggle or war.
6. dread - great fear.
7. encouraged - gave support to and inspired.
8. enslavement - the process by which one person becomes the property of another.
9. influential - the power to affect events or sway opinions.
10. privateers - privately owned ships that are ordered by the government to attack enemy ships during a war.
11. tacking - changing the course of a boat.
12. hold - the lower inside of a ship or airplane, where cargo is stored.



James Forten Spelling Words (Test Friday)
jewel sparkle angle shovel mineral
single normal angel legal influential
whistle fossil puzzle bushel vital
mortal gentle level label neutral
pedal ankle needle devil kernel

Food drive

The students brought a note home on Friday regarding the FFA food drive.  Each class has been challenged to bring non-perishable food items.  The winning class will be given a pizza party, put on by the FFA. Please check your cupboards and send in what you can!

List of items the food bank is a in a large need of....
Fruit (canned)
Hot cereals
Tang/ fruit juices
Dry beans
Rice
Jello
Pudding
Tuna
Canned vegetables
Soup
Peanut butter
Macaroni
Spaghetti
Flour
Sugar
Vegetable oil
Soap

Some links that might help....Katie's Trunk quizzes on Monday

Listen to the story Katie's Trunk before our RC quiz on Monday!

Study for Monday's vocabulary test

Bowling for PE

I'm not sure what color days Bram and Valley have PE, ask the kids, they know!  Haugen's group goes on Blue days.

Friday, December 4  Blue (Haugen)

6^th grade 8:15-9:00

5^th grade 9:00-9:50

Next week   

December 8  White

6^th grade 8:15-9:00

5^th grade 9:00-9:50

December 9  Blue (Haugen)

6^th grade 8:15-9:00

5^th grade 9:00-9:50

4^th grade 9:50-11:15

December 10  Green

6^th grade 8:15-9:00

5^th grade 9:00-9:50

December 11 White

6^th grade 8:15-9:00

5^th grade 9:00-9:50

4^th grade 9:50-11:15

12-3-15

Study for tomorrow's spelling test.
Read!

12-2-15

I will be away at a meeting for the next two days.  I can check my email periodically, but may not be able to respond immediately.  Questions, or need to get a message to your kiddos the next two days, call the office.

Homework:
Read 20 minutes
Haugen's and Bram's class: conjunction worksheet

Spelling test Friday: Katie's trunk words
Vocabulary test Monday

Katie’s trunk vocabulary words
1. arming	equip or supply with weapons
2. skittish	nervous and jumpy
3. just	honorable and fair
4. fierce	intense; ferocious
5. skirmish	small, short fight; a minor battle
6. peered	looked at with concentration
7. rebels	person who opposes the government in power
8. kin	relatives; family
9. drilling	performing training exercises
10. seams	lines formed by sewing two pieces of material together

Spelling Words

1.  equal               11.  shoulder

2.  parlor              12.  novel

3.  collect             13.  tulip

4.  closet              14.  sorrow

5.  perhaps          15.  vanish

6.  wedding         16.  essay

7.  rapid                17.  publish

8.  value               18.  aware

9.  arrive               19.  subject

10.  behave         20.  prefer

12-1-15

Read 20 minutes
Tomorrow is an early out!

Work on your stamina.  Stay focused when you read!!