April 19th Deficiency Reports go out on Monday.   PLEASE encourage your children to get ALL corrections and missing work in by FRIDAY. Check E-mails for missing work. Core Subjects: ELA - we are continuing Across Five Aprils and beginning our study of predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.  We have been working on our writing skills by creating more detailed answers in response to the history readings. MATH - we are finishing unit 10 and beginning unit 11 (Angles, Triangles, and Quadrilaterals). HISTORY - we are finishing up our study of The Civil War.  The test will be next week. SCIENCE - we finished up muscles with a test yesterday and we have begun teaching the nervous system Spelling for the week: musician, music, plane, plain, problem, rehearsal, rehearse, removal, removed, remove Roots/Vocabulary for the week: CEDE, CEED, CESS = GO; YEILD accessible, accessory, concede, exceed, intercede, precede, proceed, recede, recess, successor

April 15, 2018

Dear Parents,

Friday was our last day of standardized testing. Some students will need to go back on Monday or Tuesday to makeup anything they missed or did not finish.

Next week, we will start a fun, new method of studying roots in preparation for next year.
The roots and words for next week and their derivatives are below. Students will need to know spellings and definitions.

Here is a link to the roots and derivatives:

Roots and Derivatives 4/16-4/20

Spelling Words: musician, music, plane, plain, problem, rehearsal, rehearse, removal, removed, remove

Students will be memorizing the Gettysburg Address in the next few weeks. The first sentence is due on Monday. You can find the breakdown here.

1st paragraph due 4/16
2nd 4/18
3rd 4/20
4th 4/23

Upcoming Tests
Muscles Test, Monday 4/16
Unit 10 Math Test, Wednesday 4/18

I just love your scholars.  They are amazing and have so much talent.  They amaze me daily with their insights.
We had a heart to heart talk today about somethings they need to focus on this last quarter to be ready for CPA next year.  We talked about how at CPA their will be no listing of missing work on the board or e-mails home about missing work and probably no "No Name" box We do have those things now and yet there is still a lot of missing work which is bringing down grades.  Right now several students would be getting a deficiency, and some of them in more than one subject.  Deficiencies come out around the 23rd so I am hoping that students will get missing work in and put more effort into what they do turn in.  In class we will be working on following directions so that class time can be used efficiently to get work done.

Students need to begin memorizing the Gettysburg Address First section is due Tuesday, 4/17



Information for next week 4/16 - 4/20

HISTORY
Students will be assigned to write a poem about the civil war and illustrate it on a large piece of construction paper.
Rough draft  - due Mon 4/23   5pts
Final poem and Illistration - due 4/26    Poem = 15 pts. and illustration 5 pts.

Students will continue memorizing the Gettysburg Address for a grade

MATH
Ch 10 Test Tuesday, 4/17

Roots/Spelling
CEDE,  CEED,  CESS  = go, yield
sheet with the ten derivatives and their definitions will go home on Mon.
Test - Friday, 4/20

LITERATURE
1-5 class discussion questions from Across Five Aprils will be asked and answered on Friday. 4/20

GRAMMAR
Ch. 10 Test  - Tuesday 4/17

Tests/Testing Update

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Tests/Testing Update

Today is our last day of AZ Merit testing. If your child missed a day, they will be making it up this week. 

Spelling Test: Friday, April 13th

MAP Testing: Friday,April 13th

Muscles Test: Monday, April 16th

Unit 10 Math Test: Wednesday, April 18th

Idiom

This Week's Idiom:  What will be will be  This proverb means that you cannot change what is going to  happen.  Example: Sanjit waited anxiously as the votes for class   president were being counted.  If only I had started  campaigning sooner, I definitely would win.” “There’s no use worrying about it now,” said Robert, the   votes are already in.  What will be will be.” This proverb was used in “The Knight’s Tale” (1390) by   English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.  It is best known from the  popular song “Que Sera Sera,” which is how the proverb is   expressed in Spanish.

Roots/Spelling

Barbarous (G) foreign Derivatives to use: Barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, barbarism,  barbarity, rhubarb Orthos (G) straight, correct Derivatives to use: Orthodox, orthography, orthodontist,  orthopedist, orthotics  Dokein (G) think, have an opinion, suppose Derivatives to use: o   Doxology, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, paradox,  paradoxical, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism The spelling test will be administered on Friday. Spelling Words-  ignorance, ignorant, ignore, indication,  indicate, interference, interfere, leadership, messenger, message

Week of April 2nd (Week 31)

Week of April 2nd (Week 31)

We have testing Monday and Wednesday mornings as well as on Friday afternoon.

ELA: We continue our reading of Across Five Aprils.  As soon as the AZMerit testing is over in about two weeks, I will be scheduling reading groups.  If you are interested, please go ahead and read the book in preparation.  So far, we have read up to chapter 5.  We will also practice analogies and look at the rules for pluralizing nouns.
Math: We will begin Unit 10: Averaging.  Unit 9 tests were graded and put in their boxes on Friday; test corrections will be due no later than Friday morning at 8:15am.
Science: We will begin our unit on muscles as time allows (testing will take priority this week).
History: We continue our unit on The Civil War.

Spelling words: gather, generally, grateful, heir, inherit, hoarse, icicle, identified, identified, identify 

Roots:

• Laboro, laboratum (L) work 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Labor, laboratory, elaborate, collaborate, laborious, Labor Day  

• Ergon (G) work 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Energy, ergometer, ergonomics, allergy, surgery  

• Durus (L) hard to the touch, strong, difficult 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Endure, endurance, endurable, durable, duress, obdurate, durum, during 

• Bellum (L) war, combat, fight 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Belligerent, bellicose, antebellum, casus belli
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