This week ...

We Scare Hunger:

Classes will be collecting canned food items for this campaign. Please donate anything you can.

Pumpkin Raffle:

Each classroom will be carving/decorating a pumpkin in a creative way. Thursday morning, pumpkins will be displayed and students can win them to bring home. Tickets will cost: 3 for $1.00, or 2 for 50 cents. 

Spelling words Unit 4

Quiz next Tuesday, October 29th

1. chain

2. wave

3. basis

4. claim

5. trade

6. decade

7. brain

8. playful

9. train

10. sleigh

11. change

12. famous

13. remain

14. weigh

15. maybe

16. complain

17. statement

18. vacation

19. entertain

20. education

Tuck Everlasting Chapter Tasks

Chapters 7-9

Making Connections: Describe in detail a person, place or situation that you made a connection with in chapter 7, 8 or 9. Make sure to include information about the story AND your own life.

1. Why is it important to remember that the cat didn’t drink from the spring? (chapter 7)
2. What causes Winnie to feel such a comfort with the Tucks, as though they are her friends? (chapter 8)
3. How would you feel if you had to leave your home and lose your friends and family?

Vocabulary: Find three words in this chapter that are unfamiliar or challenging. Define each.

Chapters 10-11

Summarizing: Briefly retell the main events that occurred in chapter 10. (min. 5 sentences and max. 10)

Compare and Contrast: Create a three-ring Venn diagram to compare Winnie, another character of your choice and YOU!

Multiplication facts

Students should be practising their single digit multiplication facts on a daily basis. They can use the multiplication link in the blog to practise online. Here is a helpful video that teaches some tricks.

Transformations song

Math update

We are currently finishing up the 

Grid Systems/Transformations unit in math.

Students will have a unit test next Wednesday, October 30th.

Grade 5s will need to know:
- cardinal directions (north, east, south, west)
- translations & reflections

Grade 6s will need to know:
- coordinate grid (first quadrant)
- translations, reflections & rotations (90 degrees and 180 degrees)

Have a great weekend!

Just a reminder that tomorrow is a PD day. 

I wish all of you an fun and enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends! 

Tuck Everlasting Chapter Tasks

Students will be given chapter tasks to complete for our novel study every few days. The first set (1-3) is due today and the second set (4-6) is due next Wednesday. I will collect both sets next week so students can bring their notebooks home this weekend. I am posting these tasks below; however, they should also be glued and completed in the language notebooks. 

Chapters 1-3

1. Explain why people did not go through the wood.
2. Why do you think that Tuck only smiled when he was asleep?
3. Why does Mae only see her boys every ten years?
4. How would you feel if you were put in Winnie’s situation?

Reflecting: What are your first thoughts of this book? What are you wondering about at this point?

Vocabulary: Write the definition of the following words.

Tranquil Abruptly Isolation Beaming Frantic

Chapter 4-6

Visualizing: Create a t-chart showing all that the main character hears, sees, tastes, smells and feels during one event of chapter 4, 5 or 6.

Questioning: What are three questions that you have so far, at this point in the book?

Predicting: Make a reasonable prediction about what the next few chapters may be about.

Transformations game

We are working on Transformations in Geometry. This is a game that students can play at home for practice!

Operation Shape Translation

Spelling unit 3 words

Quiz Wednesday, October 16th
(practice booklets due Tues, Oct. 15th)

1. your

2. you're

3. which

4. witch

5. there

6. they're

7. their

8. threw

9. through

10. sent

11. cent

12. scent

13. allowed

14. aloud

15. weather

16. whether

17. board

18. bored

19. rain

20. reign

Tuck Everlasting

We have begun reading Tuck Everlasting. The novels will be kept in class; however, if students would like access to the story, for answering questions and such, please use the following link for the audio version.

Tuck Everlasting audio