No School on Thursday and Friday

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember that your assingments are due Monday:

Geography: Fact file on the American Revolution
Reading: Final copy of Author's Tea story
Math: WB p. 41-42


Have a great weekend!
Mrs. E.

Week 12 Spelling List

Our words for next week are compound words.  Notice that some are one word, while others are two.

1. baby-sit
2. first aid
3. flashlight
4. high school
5. goalkeeper
6. all right
7. airmail
8. one-way
9. bodyguard
10. something
11. good-bye
12. birthday
13. outside
14. everybody
15. everyone
16. anything
17. themselves
18. himself

Bonus words
19. green thumb
20. trustworthy

Tuesday, November 23

Don't forget--the Science Fair is tomorrow!  Come and view everyone's project starting at 1:30.

We have a few long distance assignments:

Social Studies: Revolutionary War Fact File (I gave out the directions today and the index cards.  You will need your Social Studies Book "Chapter 11: The Colonies Rebel" to do the assignment)
Reading: Final "error free" copy of your Author's Tea story

Today's Assignments (due tomorrow)

Spelling: WS 52-53
Math: p. 49-50 in the workbook
Language: Introduction paragraph for the five paragraph essay.


Have a good night!  See you tomorrow!
Mrs. E.

Monday, November 22

Reminder: Please have your Science Fair project completed by Wednesday!  The Science Fair will be at 1:30.  You should bring all of your materials to school that day and have it ready to present at 1:30.

Today's Assignments:

Spelling: Week 11 (words with Latin roots) practice and WS 51.  There will be NO pretest this week, only a final test on Wednesday.
Math: WB p. 37-38--you may use a calculator.
Handwriting: WS p. 49-50
Reading: "The Upside Down Voyage" group: Finish the rest of the story.  Write down one other passage with descriptive writing and circle the descriptive words.  Be ready for our next group on Monday next week.
"Daniel and the Great Bearded One": Find ideas to compare and contrast Daniel and Roger, if you haven't finished reading through chapter 2, please do that.
Word Work: Noun review 1 and 2 and Nouns 9
Work on Writing: Revise your story and write a fresh copy free of errors. 
Geography: Time For Kids (read the newspaper and complete the three worksheets to go with it)

If you haven't already done so, please turn in the order forms for our published book.  I will need those before we send in our packets in December.

Also, the Book Fair is open Monday through Wednesday this week.  If you would like to bring money to purchase items you may. 

There will be band for everyone on Wednesday so don't forget your instrument.

Thanks,
Kelly Engman

Thursday, November 18

Today's assignments:

Reading: Because of Winn-Dixie Comic Strip
Math: Chapter 3 Test
Social Studies: Boston Tea Party!

Have a great three day weekend! 
Mrs. E.

Week 11 Spelling List

We have a shortened spelling list for next week.  We will not have a pre-test, just a final test on Wednesday.

1. pedal


2. pedestal
3. numeral

4. enumerate

5. liberal

6. pedestrian

7. biped
8. numerous

9. numerator

10. liberty

Science Fair

Just a reminder:

The Science Fair is at 2:00 next Wednesday, November 24!  You need to have your projects completed at this time!


Mrs. E.

Tuesday, November 16

Assignments for today:

Spelling: Week 10 pretest.  Write the words 3x or 10x.
Reading: Work on Writing--character sketch, Word Work--Nouns 7-8, and GR groups continue with assignments
Language: Write rough draft outlines of paragraphs 2-4 in five paragraph essay
Math: Chapter 3 pretest p. 148-151 problems 1-30
Geography: Start creating fact packet for the American Revolution

Have a great day!
Mrs. E.

Conferences

Thank you to everyone who came to conferences last night.  I am also looking forward to visiting with the families on Wednesday night's conference!

Remember because of conferences there is no school on Friday, November 19.

Please send back the signed forms for ordering the Author's Tea books.  You can choose to order or select no if you just want the one free book. 

Have a great day!
Mrs. E.

Week 10 Spelling List

Here are the words for week 10.

1. spoil
2. choice
3. avoid
4. moisture
5. oyster
6. royal
7. employ
8. annoy
9. ground
10. house
11. sprout
12. mountain
13. allow
14. ourselves
15. somehow
16. ounce
17. amount
18. boundary
19. publicity
20. enchanted

Happy Veteran's Day

I just want to thank all the Veterans out there who have made our country such a wonderful place to live in!  Thank you for your service.  Enjoy your day :)

Today's homework:

Math: p. 132-133 problems 11-20 and 23-30

Please remember to have your outlines for your planning for the five paragraph essay due tomorrow.
Also, your rough drafts for your stories are due tomorrow.

Have a good night! 
Mrs. E.

Wednesday, November 10

Today's Assignments:

Spelling: WS 46-47
Reading: Keep working on rough draft of story, plot, figurative language, suffixes and prefixes
Math: p. 129 (1-25)
Language: Outline for five paragraph essay
Science: Lesson 1--Pop Ups

Have a great night!  Enjoy the nice weather.  Remember to thank a veteran because tomorrow is Veteran's Day! 

We were not able to get a lifeguard for the book break tomorrow so we will be having free time outside instead.  Please DO NOT send swimsuits and towels.

Mrs. E.

Tuesday, November 9

Good afternoon!

What a wonderful day it is outside!  I hope that you all are able to enjoy some of the sunlight left at the end of the day and these unusually warm temperatures!  Wow!

Here are the assignments for today:

Spelling: pretest week 9--write the words 3x or 10x
Reading: finish rough draft of story, figurative language sheet and plot (for those in work on writing) and prefixes and suffixes (for those in word work) "Almost Undone" should finish the story "Batty" and "Daniel and the Great Bearded One" should finish the story.
Math: Checkpoint 5
Geography: Map Skills: Canada and work on the "Country Fact Sheet: Canada" and "Resources of Canada"

Also, there are a few conference slips that still need to be turned in so please return those at your earliest convenience. 

Have a great day!
Mrs. E.

Week 9 Spelling List

Here are the words for this week.

1. gloomy
2. school
3. choose
4. loose
5. route
6. clue
7. truth
8. duty
9. ruin
10. Tuesday
11. usually
12. threw
13. understood
14. neighborhood
15. rookie
16. could
17. should
18. bulletin
19. territories
20. voyage

Thursday, November 4

Hello,

It looks like a nice, sunny day outside but it seems super cold!  Winter is right around the corner so please bring appropriate clothing to head outside for recess.  The students will be going out when it's quite cold so hats, boots, mittens and a warm jacket and snowpants are all a good idea.

Homework:

Reading:Word Work, Writing (work on rough draft of story and setting ws) and reading assignments for Daniel and the Great Bearded One and Almost Undone.  Also if you were in the group "Mystery at Gettysburg" then you need to read through ch. 2.

Spelling WS 42-43

Math: p. 120-121 problems 1-34

Science: Lab (in class)

Spelling test tomorrow! 

Have a great night!

Mrs. E.

oops!

The bonus word is avalanches!  NOT avalanche.

Sorry!

Mrs. E.

Week 8 spelling list

Sorry I didn't post this sooner!

1. idea
2. silent
3. myself
4. lying
5. apply
6. knight
7. quite
8. I'm
9. license
10. buy
11. inquire
12. higher
13. variety
14. smiling
15. diagram
16. rhyme
17. widest
18. python
19. avalanche
20. celebration

Monday, November 1

Hello!

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Our fundraising items came in last week and I was finally able to sort through them today.  I just sent them home with the kids if they thought they could carry the boxes.  They weren't too big.  Please let me know if you have any problems with your order.

Remember there is no school on Wednesday due to a staff development day.

Here are today's assignments:

Spelling: WS 40-41 (bonus words: avalanche and celebration)
Language: Nouns 3 and 4
Math: WB 27
Reading: Guided Reading, Word Work, and Writing

Also, start thinking about the science fair.  It will be held at the end of the month of November this year.  I will send out a letter about it later this week.

Have a good night!
Mrs. E.