The Week of April 1st through 5th, 2019

Spelling:  List #C23  Suffixes -ful, -ly, and -less

Regular List:

     slowly     powerful     fearless    useful    truthful     quickly     painless             friendly     wonderful     sadly     thankful     careful     happily     flawless         calmly

Review Words:  author     vinegar     inventor  

Challenge Words:  meaningful     peaceful

Need to Know Words:  wishful     orderly     wordless     eventful     childless

Alternative List:

slowly     powerful     fearless     truthful     painless     friendly     sadly     thankful     careful     happily     useful     calmly     wishful     orderly     childless

• Test will be on Friday, April 5th.  
• If student receives less than 70%, they have the opportunity to do a retake assignment of writing the words they missed in complete sentences and turning them in.

Reading/ELA:

• Prefixes
• Informational Writing unit.
• We are enjoying our new class novel. Trumpet of the Swans by E.B. White!
• Vocabulary focus: ripe, embrace, irate, legible, seek 
• WOW word:  collapsible

Math:

          Topic 12:  Fractions

• Monday:  Lesson 12-6-Line Plots and Lengths **Homework on this lesson.
• Tuesday:  Lesson 12-7-More Line Plots and Lengths**no homework on this lesson
• Wednesday:  Review unit for test on Friday.  **Homework on this lesson.  Parent Signature on review pages mean students can use them during their test.
• Homework will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings this week.Homework is due the following morning. Five points will be added in the grade book for homework returned and completed.  Students who forget their homework can log on to enVision which is a link on the right side of this blog page. The homework that would have been on the page is on the website.  I will list the lesson number below under homework.   

Science: Why are some apples red and some apples green? 

Social Studies: 

• Picturing North America

Character Education Focus:  

• Our April focus is on Caring. 

Homework:

• Math homework:
• Monday, April 1st:  Lesson 12-6 Line Plots and Lengths.
• Wednesday, April 3rd:  Topic 12 review for test 

• Reading
•  Homework-20 minutes minimum per evening.  Put minutes on reading calendar which will be due the first week of October.  Reading homework requirement is 400 minutes per month for 100% in grade book.  Starting with the October reading calendar, students who read at least 400 minutes for the month and turn it in the first week of November will receive a free personal pizza coupon for Pizza Hut in addition to their grade.
• March  Reading Calendars are due Monday, April 1st, 2019. 

Science Fair:
    I sent home the science fair packet before Spring Break as a guide to help you help your child with their science fair project.  The packet does not need to be turned in, only your child's finished science fair project covering the scientific process.  Projects can not be stored so please do not send to school until Friday, May 16th.  

• Projects are worth 100 points and each student is expected to do one and present it in class.  Grading will be 100% for doing the project and presenting or 0% for no project.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  

Dates to remember:

• Science Fair:  May 16th 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in high school gym.