October 7-11

 

• This week's story is Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea. There is a study guide for the similarities and differences for living on land vs. sea. Please study this information.
• Homework goes home on Monday but is not due until Friday. Remember homework is optional but if correct; bonus points are rewarded.
• This week's focus skill is Compare and Contrast. 
• This week's vocabulary words are:                                                                                      dignified: calm, serious, respectful behavior                                                                        rowdy: noisy, rough, out of control behavior                                                                      seldom: hardly ever happens                                                                                              conducted: led or guided an activity                                                                                     shatter: break suddenly and violently                                                                            broached: a ship has veered onto its side                                                                    inflammable: catches on fire easily and burns rapidly
• This week's grammar skill is similes and metaphors.
• There will be a reading/grammar test on Friday, October 11th. It will consist of a cold read passage and question set, comprehension questions about Sailing Home, vocabulary sentences, and simile and metaphor questions.
•  This 9 weeks' spelling test is also Friday, October 11th. These are the spelling words: unsuccessful, undoubtedly, enjoyable, disloyalty, disconnected, unreadable, replacement, unsafely, uncollectible, unhelpful, impassible, encouragement, disrespectful, unselfishly, rearrangement, discoverable, dishonestly, unbreakable, reappearance, unlikable. The students will have had 2 weeks to study.
• Last week's tests go home on Tuesday, October 8th.
• If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return. Please ask your student daily if they need anything signed. Tests from the other classes also require to be signed and returned for D and F grades.
• Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, grades, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc.   
• Let me know if you need me in any way!

Coming Up Soon:

• Fall Picture Day is Monday, October 7th.
• Special Snack is Wednesday, October 9th. Everything is $1.00.
• 1st Semester Conference forms go home on Monday, October 7th. Please sign and return by Friday, October 11th.

 

Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in. The supply kits provided them.

Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse within 3 days of them returning.

Email for your child's teachers are:
             andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
             tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
             allison.chambers@sccboe.org   (science)
             christina.bruce@sccboe.org  (social studies)

Our websites are available through the school's website.

Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.