Figurative language activities

Fling

simile metaphor

4-27-16

Homework:
Read 20 minutes, our next quiz is due Monday!
Study for Friday's spelling test
Sign Mid-term reports that were sent home today!

What a great day for fishing....

4-25-16

Tomorrow is fishing day for all 5th graders.  Please remember to dress appropriately.

Pretest tomorrow over Bl. Cowboy words:

1. mountain
2. treasure
3. culture
4. fountain
5. creature
6. captain
7. future
8. adventure
9. moisture
10. surgeon
11. lecture
12. curtain
13. pasture
14. measure
15. vulture
16. feature
17. furniture
18. pleasure
19. mixture
20. luncheon

Career Day

Friday was our 2nd annual 5th and 6th grade Career Day!  The kids had the pleasure of listening to a policeman, camp director, P.A., teachers, and entrepreneurs (Sugar Pie Bakery, and a chiropractor). Our speakers talked to the kids about their jobs, and then took questions from them.

4-21-16

Homework:
Pioneer Story and worksheet
Cursive packet due next Friday
Read 20

4-20-16

Homework tonight:
Read 20 minutes
Cursive packet due next Friday
Late work: Mid terms are coming out next Wednesday, so all late work should be in by Monday in order to show up on midterms.  Everyone will be getting them from all three teachers, so be on the look out next week!

Remember :Friday is Career Day!  We'll be at the high school off and on all day to watch the speakers!

Wednesday class lab time

vocabulary test

Go west game

Build a sod house

Westward trail

Figurative language games
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor1.htm
lhttp://www.turtlediary.com/game/metaphor-and-simile.html
http://www.mrspeace.com/figurative-language-games.html

4-19-16

Vocabulary test tomorrow!

RC over Pioneer Girl

Read 20 minutes

Coming Friday...2nd Annual 5th and 6th grade career day

Counselor Johnson has put together another great career day this year for our 5th and 6th graders.  This is what our schedule will look like on Friday!

9:45 am – ** 5^th and 6^th graders head to the HS auditorium **

10:00 am – Rick McDaniel – Belmond Police Chief

11:00 am – Abbie Orozco – Child and Family Services/Camp Director

12:00 pm - ** Head back to Jacobson to get ready for lunch **

12:50 pm - **Head back to HS auditorium**

1:00 pm – Linda Loux – Physician’s Assistant (Retired)

1:45 pm – Amy Pollitt – Elementary Music Teacher (Retired)

                     Kraig Dirks – High School Math Teacher/Coach (Retired)

2:45 pm – Robert Arnold – Entrepreneur

                     Bradi Arnold – EntrepreneurCo

Spelling and vocabulary...test tomorrow and Wednesday

 Pioneer Girl Vocabulary Definitions (Test on Wednesday)
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1. claim - a piece of land that someone reserves for ownership.
2. convinced - persuaded or certain.
3. discouraged - not hopeful or enthusiastic.
4. fertile - rich in material needed to grow healthy plants.
5. heifer - a young cow that has not yet had a calf.
 6. homestead - a piece of land given to settlers for farming and building a home.
 7. immigrants - persons who move to a new country.
8. prairie - a large area of flat or rolling grassland.
9. sod - a chunk of grass and soil held together by matted roots.
10. memoir - an account of experiences that the author has lived through.
11. discharge - to shoot or fire.
12. firebreaks - grassless ditches fires could not cross

Pioneer Girl Spelling Words (Test Tuesday)
dozen voyage forbid native  
 language destroy notice distance  
carrot knowledge captive spinach  
 solid  justice ashamed program  
 message respond service relative

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