Week B October 24, 2016 5 th Grade Newsletter Mrs. Deal & Mrs. Morgan [email protected][email protected]We Are Learning … Reading We will begin our novel, Bridge to Terabithia. Throughout this novel we will study Characters, point of view, figurative language, and research. This nine weeks we will complete a research project. More information to come soon. Grammar Using commas correctly in our writing Math Decimals: Multiplying and Dividing Important dates… October 24-28- Red Ribbon Week- Canned food drive all week to help United Way and local food pantries. Monday- Tacky Day Tuesday- Career Day Wednesday- Decades Day Thursday- Team Day zes tudies: tion: Wednesday, dy quiz: ctober 25 Text Structure WORD STUDY *Know the definition of each word and how to use the word in a complete sentence. You do NOT have to correctly spell the words. QUIZ Tuesday, October 25 We are asking for donations of toiletry kit items to aid those that are still in need after Hurricane Matthew. Please send in donations to support our 4H club. Donations are due by November 18. Please send $3 for goody bags!
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Words with –specThe root –spec means to see or to look
circumspect – careful to look at all possibilities before acting; cautious; aware of consequencesinspect –to look at carefully in search of flawsintrospection –looking into one’s own thoughts and feelingsperspective –one way of looking at thingsrespect –to look up to someone; to show honorretrospective –looking back at past thingsspectacle- something displayed for the public to seespectator –a person who watches something, such as a sporting eventspeculate –to look at and think about something from different points of viewspectacles –glasses that help one see better-----------------------------------------------------------These are our new words, beginning Wednesday. The root –mort means death
moral –certain to die; causing deathmortify- to cause someone to feel embarrassed and foolishmortuary –a place where dead bodies are stores prior to burial or cremationmortgage –a legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property (such as a house) and pays back over a period of yearsmorbid –relating to unpleasant subjects (such as death); not healthy or normalmoribund- in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigormortician –a person whose job is to prepare dead people dead people to be buried and to arrange and manage funeralsimmortal –not capable of dying; living forevermortality –the quality or state of being a person or thing that is alive and therefore certain to die; the quality or state of being mortal
We Are Learning … ReadingWe will begin our novel, Bridge to Terabithia.Throughout this novel we will studyCharacters, point of view, figurative language, and research. This nine weeks we will complete a research project. More informationto come soon.
GrammarUsing commas correctly in our writing Math Decimals: Multiplying and Dividing
Social StudiesReconstruction
Important dates…
October 24-28-Red Ribbon Week- Canned food drive all week to help United Way and local food pantries.
Monday- Tacky DayTuesday- Career DayWednesday- Decades DayThursday- Team DayFriday-Red Day
October 31 –Goody Bags
Tests/Quizzes
Social Studies: Reconstruction: Wednesday, October 26
Word Study quiz:Tuesday, October 25
Text Structure and Commas, Friday, October 28
WORD STUDY *Know the definition of each word and how to use the word in a complete sentence. You do NOT have to correctly spell the words. QUIZ Tuesday, October 25
We are asking for donations of toiletry kit items to aid those that are still in need after Hurricane Matthew. Please send in donations to support our 4H club. Donations are due by November 18.
