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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