Homework

Math: Homework Book Pages 195 + 196

Reading: Read Pioneer Girl Reader Pages 498-513, then answer questions on page 514

Science: Write three paragraphs explaining the ecosystem on your poster

Social Studies (Due Friday for Extra Credit): Write paragraphs answering each of the following questions:

1. What were the weaknesses of the central government under the Articles of
Confederation?

2. How was a new plan of government developed at the Constitutional Convention?

3. What are the powers of each of the three branches of government?

4. What is the Bill of Rights, and why was it added to the Constitution?

Good Luck!!!

Spelling Words

1. magazine
2. magnet
3. major
4. manager
5. marriage
6. material
7. mature
8. meaningful
9. measure
10. mechanic
11. medical
12. medicine
13. mention
14. method
15. midnight
16. minute
17. mistaken
18. misunderstand
19. mixture
20. modern

Words to add to your My List:

1. monument
2. mood
3. motion
4. Mr.
5. Mrs.
6. multiple
7. muscle
8. museum
9. musical
10. myth
11. napkin
12. nationality
13. natural
14. negative
15. neighborhood
16. nineteen
17. ninety
18. noisy
19. novel
20. numerator
21. observe
22. officer
23. official
24. operate
25. opposite
26. original
27. outline
28. P.S.
29. Pacific
30. paragraph
31. passenger
32. patient
33. pattern
34. pears
35. pedal
36. penalty
37. penguin
38. percent
39. performance
40. personal
41. petal
42. phrase
43. physical
44. piano
45. pledge
46. plumber
47. poem
48. poet
49. policy
50. pollute
51. pollution
52. popular
53. population
54. positive
55. potato
56. potatoes
57. prairie
58. predict
59. prefer
60. preserve
61. prevent
62. preview
63. principal
64. private
65. probably
66. problem
67. project
68. property
69. protective
70. provide
71. publish
72. pumpkins
73. purchase

Spelling List

Pre-Test:

1. foolish
2. forecast
3. forehead
4. foreign
5. forgetting
6. forgiveness
7. forward
8. fossil
9. fourteen
10. fraction
11. freedom
12. freight
13. friction
14. froze
15. fuel
16. funnel
17. furnish
18. further
19. galaxy
20. garlic

Words to add to your My List:

1. garment
2. gaze
3. gesture
4. governor
5. gracious
6. graduation
7. grateful
8. grief
9. grocery
10. hamburger
11. handsome
12. handy
13. happiest
14. happiness
15. headache
16. ledge
17. heritage
18. heroes
19. higher
20. hire
21. history
22. honorable
23. horizon
24. humid
25. hunger
26. hyphen
27. identify
28. ignore
29. imagination
30. importance
31. improvement
32. independence
33. information
34. ingredient
35. injury
36. inquire
37. inspect
38. instance
39. instant
40. instead
41. instruct
42. instruction
43. instrument
44. interesting
45. intersection
46. interview
47. invention
48. invisible
49. invitation
50. jealous
51. Jr.
52. junior
53. knowledge
54. language
55. lawyer
56. lecture
57. legal
58. liberty
59. liquid
60. loaves

HWK

Math: worksheets
Reading: Book Club Book and fill out worksheet
Social Studies: Finish part on newspaper article

Natural Disaster Projects

A Wonderful poster about Blizzards!!!

A diagram/model of a hurricane.

A large volcano!

Thank you so much to all the students who worked so hard to create such fabulous natural disaster projects! It was very exciting to see the projects in action today and to observe the creativity in each student within their project.

Homework

Math: Pages 185 and 186

Spelling: Write words 3 times each

Vocabulary: Use each word in a sentence

Social Studies: Finish Newspaper final draft by Wednesday!!!

Vocabulary Words

This weeks vocab words

1. duplicate: to copy
2. nick: a small cut or chip
3. glum: unhappy or sad
4. drought: a period of dry weather
5. territory: area of land that you claim
6. maintain: to keep from going
7. hunch: a feeling
8. teetered: to move unsteadily
9. available: ready to go
10. recite: say again

posted by the five fifth graders

Vocabulary Words

Spelling Words

Pre-Test Words:

1. dangerous
2. decimal
3. decision
4. decoration
5. delivery
6. denominator
7. dentist
8. department
9. depth
10. descendant
11. describe
12. deserve
13. dessert
14. details
15. determine
16. dial
17. digestion
18. direction
19. disastrous
20. discriminate

Words to add to the My List:

1. discussion
2. distance
3. distributed
4. disturb
5. division
6. Dr.
7. dramatic
8. dyed
9. eager
10. earliest
11. echoes
12. educate
13. effort
14. eighteen
15. electricity
16. element
17. elevator
18. eleven
19. emergency
20. employer
21. emptiness
22. encyclopedia
23. endurance
24. enjoying
25. enormous
26. entire
27. entrance
28. envelope
29. equation
30. equator
31. equipment
32. escape
33. especially
34. etc.
35. examine
36. example
37. excellent
38. exchange
39. excitement
40. exercise
41. exit
42. experience
43. explore
44. extend
45. exterior
46. fairness
47. faithfully
48. farther
49. fashion
50. faucet
51. feature
52. fiction
53. fierce
54. fifteen
55. fireproof
56. following

Published by 5 fifth graders

Homework

Math: pg 175+176
Reading: Read your next section in book club book

Vocabulary Words

1. alliance
2. representation
3. coerce
4. boycott
5. petition
6. grievance
7. resolution
8. territory
9. inflation
10. abolish

Spelling List

1. abbreviation
2. ability
3. absence
4. accept
5. accidentally
6. account
7. achieve
8. acquainted
9. acreage
10. activity
11. addition
12. addresses
13. admire
14. adult
15. adventure
16. advice
17. afford
18. agreement
19. alter
20. altogether

Words to add to your My List:

1. ambulance
2. amphibian
3. amuse
4. anchor
5. ancient
6. angle
7. apartment
8. appeared
9. applaud
10. apply
11. appointment
12. appreciate
13. approach
14. Arctic
15. arithmetic
16. artistic
17. assignment
18. Atlantic
19. attract
20. audience
21. automobile
22. autumn
23. average
24. avoid
25. bead
26. beautifully
27. beef
28. beetle
29. begins
30. beliefs
31. bench
32. blown
33. bough
34. bound
35. bows
36. brain
37. brief
38. business
39. calm
40. camped

Homework

Math: Pages 229-230

Spelling: Correct your words on the blog and create a My List

Vocabulary: Finish finding the dictionary definitions for the 10 words in your Book Club Books

Reading: Read the next section/chapters in your Book Club Book

Spelling Words

This week's words are review words, so on the pre-test there were 30 words.

1. powder
2. burglar
3. rapid
4. value
5. bushel
6. actor
7. equal
8. publish
9. tractor
10. pedal
11. polar
12. aware
13. matter
14. single
15. sparkle
16. humor
17. behave
18. quarter
19. whistle
20. needle
21. mayor
22. sorrow
23. parlor
24. mortal
25. gentle
26. lunar
27. shoulder
28. jewel
29. legal
30. wedding

Words to add for your My List (more review words)

1. died
2. piece
3. retrieve
4. their
5. mischievous
6. pieces
7. fiendish
8. weigh
9. perceive
10. relieve
11. freight
12. achieve
13. veil
14. rein
15. tried
16. brief
17. yield
18. either
19. cashier
20. eight
21. fierce
22. aggrieve
23. alien
24. ball-field
    
25. anxiety
26. apiece
27. buried
28. briefcase
29. debrief
30. diesel
31. diet
32. drier
33. eerie
34. fiend
35. fiery
36. frontier
37. grieve
    
38. glacier
39. hygiene
40. impatient
41. infield
42. mouthpiece
43. pier
44. piety
45. premier
46. preview
47. quiet
48. relieve
49. relief
50. retrieve
51. science
52. shriek
53. siege
54. scientist
55. soldier
56. society
57. tier
58. view
59. wield
60. expedient

Challenge Words:

1. acquiesce
2. alienate
3. cavalier
4. chandelier
5. dietitian
   
6. Ezekiel
7. gradient
8. hierarchy
9. inconvenient
10. omniscient

MY LIST

1. beet
2. beat
3. roll
4. role
5. your
6. you're
7. heel
8. heal
9. wear
10. ware
11. peer
12. pier
13. cheep
14. cheap
15. allowed
16. aloud
17. boar
18. bore
19. prays
20. praise