Spelling Review Words for Oct. 19th-23rd

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Spelling Review Words for Oct. 19th-23rd

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Monday Notes

I hope you all had a great weekend! Here's what we were up to today:

• Spelling- Our list has 20 words with 5 additional challenge words (see below). Check out the link to Spelling City for some cool spelling games to practice. For homework, the students are to complete the spelling word search and write each word 4x on the back. The challenge words are 5 extra credit points.
• Vocab- the words this week are: ventured, foisted, annoyed, pact, queasy, and depriving. For homework the students are to use each word in a sentence on page 10 of their planner.
• Math- worksheet 1.4 Benchmark numbers. There will be a test on Thursday.
• Have a great night!

1.	pact
2.	brand
3.	brick
4.	crop
5.	broad
6.	tread
7.	film
8.	else
9.	gram
10.	gum
11.	dread
12.	spend
13.	past
14.	plot
15.	check
16.	split
17.	sting
18.	strap
19.	task
20.	twin
21.	gingerly
22.	ditch
23.	pleasure
24.	penguin
25.	lecture

Spelling List for This Week

See Spelling City Link in right column- (Down and Up Fall)
Bonus Words/Names
21. Niederer (Escultura)
22. Leschisin (Goughnour)
23. Scherven (Vasquez)
24. Weinzierl (Skaar)

Fly Traps-Spelling

Spelling for this week.
Bonus Words:
voyageur
Ojibwe
enzymes
insectivorous

Carnivorous Plants Web Site

Spelling for Paul Bunyan

Spelling for "Paul Bunyan"
Bonus words:
deforestation
silviculture
boreal
Taiga

Spelling Words for "I Have Heard of a Land"

I Have Heard of a Land Spelling List Link.

Bonus Words
terrestrial
fandango
fastidious
modus operandi

Spelling List

Click here to see this week's spelling list on Spelling City.

Spelling For "House, House"

woman, even, urban, seven, kitchen, reason, human, season, burden, wagon, oven, dragon, horizon, orphan, canyon, eleven, sweltering, gymnasium, attic, installed
Bonus:
covenants, foundation, balustrade, cantilever

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed the past week!

Spelling:	A Very Important Day
table, final, handle, personal, animal, usual, jungle, actual, example, bottle, possible, single, several, national, hospital, trouble, apologized, certificate, obliged, resounded Bonus: hierarchy, lieutenant, nepotism, scuttlebutt

This week we are reading the story A Very Important Day. This story depicts twelve different families and their journey to the courthouse to take the oath of citizenship. This is a link to the US Immigration Web Site. Try downloading the Civics study questions to test your knowledge on United States History and Government.

In math we continue to work on perimeter. Perimeter is the distance around a shape. Here is a link to a perimeter web site.

Spelling Words for "Fire"

Base Words -ar, -er, -or endings:
doctor, dollar, power, sugar, corner, collar, danger, ladder, labor, cellar, other, motor, hunger, calendar, horror, officer
Words from Vocab:
dedication, billowing, ventilate, curfew
No Bonus Words this Week

Spelling List for "One Grain of Rice"

Spelling:
addition, sadness, lovable, endless, handful, plentiful, breathless, happiness, solution, careful, function, stillness, information, celebration, capable, available, famine, implored, trickle, plentifully
Bonus:
pardox, antithesis, stereotype, terrarium

Haikus, Fractions, and Spelling Words

Fraction Identification- Circles

Fraction Identification- Lines

Identify Fractions- Groups

Renaming Fraction in lowest terms (reducing)

Equivalent Fractions- Higher



Spelling this week (Tues & Fri). Rule: adding suffixes to words that end with -y.
families, worried, ugliest, funnier, happily, easily, heavier, earlier, tiniest, supplied, luckily, relied, activities, countries, enemies, hurried,
Spelling vocab words:
triumphantly, desperately, injustice, circumstances.
Bonus Words:
contradict, oxymoron, memorandum, omniscent

In the Days of King Adobe Spelling List

Homework:
Complete A-Z Verb Rough Draft for tomorrow
Complete Vocab Notebook and Spelling Study
Math page 18.2-Types of Triangles (both sides)
Complete Blue Math Sheet
Library and Art Tomorrow.

Spelling for February 9th-13th, 2009:
In the Days of King Adobe:
nonstop, replaced, inactive, refill, incorrect, rethink, nonfat, reread, retell, return, incomplete, repay, nonfiction, nonsense, indirect, independent, thrifty, generous, rascally, fascinated.
Bonus Words:
alliteration, characterize, chronological, irony.

This Week's Vocabulary Words:
thrifty
rascally
fascinated
generous
rougish

Monday Notes- Ice Skating Tomorrow!

Spelling for The Case of Pablo's Nose.
unused, dislike, unclean, unheard, disagree, disabled, unkind, unfriendly, unable, unhappy, unsafe, disobey, uncertain, disappear, undecided, dishonest, sculptor, alibi, muttered, strengthening
Bonus:
uncorroborated
unapologetic
uncatalogued
unlicensed
Homework:
Spelling Word Find and Practice
Vocab notebook for The Case of Pablo's Nose.
Math: 17.3 all- Intersecting, Parallel, and Perpendicular lines
Math Bluesheet
Library Tomorrow

Spelling for Jan 26th-30th- Compatible Numbers

The Kids' Invention Book
Base words: -y & -ey endings
tiny, hockey, heavy, every, money, turkey, early, hungry, already, valley, nobody, monkey, company, country, ability, library
Vocab Words tested:
document, prosthetic, circular, scholarship
Challenge/Bonus Words:
schematic, precocious, taciturn, picturesque

Homework:
Kids' Invention Book spelling & Vocab
Math- 14.1 Front- all, Back 1-3 & mixed review
White math review sheet (10 problems)
Library and Music Tomorrow
Video Below:

"Look to the North" Spelling List

Look to the North by Jean Craighead George
Pres. President
Dr. Doctor
Ave. Avenue
Hwy. Highway
Rd. Road
St. Street
Fri. Friday
Sat. Saturday
Sept. September
Dec. December
tsp. teaspoon
lb. pound
Wed. Wednesday
Gov. Governor
Mt. Mount
Rte. Route
ceases
tundra
surrender
bonding

Bonus Words:
Louisiana LA
Tennessee TN
Arkansas AR
Mississippi MS

Cricket in Times Square

Homework tonight:
Spelling crossword on possessive nouns from the spelling list.
Math review sheet and finish brown chapter 1o packet.
Library Tomorrow.

Notes for the week:
Please return The Tale of Despereaux field trip slips as soon as possible.

Spelling List (possessive nouns-plural and singular)
The Cricket in Times Square
1. team’s
2. players’
3. bird’s
4. wolf’s
5. horse’s
6. class’s
7. group’s
8. girls’
9. students’
10. trees’
11. parents’
12. owners’
13. cousins’
14. teachers’
15. aunts’
16. friend’s
17. scrounging
18. eavesdropping
19. wistfully
20. logical
Bonus Words:
potpourri
exude
habitual
phenomenal

Spelling words for "Stealing Home"

This week's words. The theme is the plural form of words.
1. shelves
2. sheep
3. teeth
4. elves
5. mice
6. calves
7. spacecraft
8. jeans
9. feet
10. women
11. men
12. geese
13. salmon
14. series
15. scissors
16. halves
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Vocab words
17. irritably
18. disposition
19. tutor
20. grudge
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Bonus Words
21. curmudgeon
22. Montpelier, Vermont
23. estranged
24. Whitehawks

Spelling List for:How to Babysit an Orangutan:
ground, frown, downtown, bounced, council, about, scout, counter, background, amount, bound, shower, mountain, county, thousand, allowance, coordination, jealous, facial, manageable
Bonus words:
perfidy, Borneo, arboreal, orangutan

This week's schedule:
Mon: Phy. Ed.
Tues: Music and Library
Wed: Art and Computer Lab
Thurs: Phy. Ed. and Computer Lab
Fri: Music

Please return Orchestra Hall/Minneapolis Institute of Art field trip slips as soon as possible. Our class will need four parent chaperones to accompany us on the trip. Their main responsibility will be to lead 4 or 5 students around the Art Institute for about 45 minutes.

Monday Notes

Spelling:	Charlotte's Web
curve, learned, curly, pearl, purse, further, turtle, urgent, burning, search, earth, earned, purpose, surface, overheard, rehearse, sustenance, conspiracy, fragile, acrobat Bonus Words: agriculture, arachnid, arable, archaic Homework: Spelling & page 59 in workbook Math 7.1 both sides of the first page. Art & Library Tomorrow Wed: Phy. Ed. Thurs: Music Fri: Art