Feb. 8

This week's words and Asian Countries:
A Single Shard, Chapters 3-6

1. ministrations
2. diligent
3. insolence
4. curt
5. felicitous
6. residue
7. suffice
8. crucial
9. patriarch
10. banter
11. arduous
12. connoisseur
13. emissary
14. entourage
15. envision
16. explicit
19. feign
20. impassive
Know the location of the following Asian countries on a blank map.
Russia
Kazakhstan
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Kuwait
Afghanistan

January 30-February 3

In Reading Class we will be starting the novel, A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park. Students will have a study guide with vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities to complete after reading a group of chapters. This week we will read chapters 1-3.

Words for spelling and vocabulary: arid, momentum, complied, oblivious, cowered, perusal, derision, precariously, impudence, prosperity, simile, metaphor, personification, internal conflict, external conflict

HOMEWORK:Complete a spelling choice by Wednesday.
Complete the study guide questions for the chapters we read this week.

January 23-27

No school Friday!
This week we will be studying the world's largest rice-producing countries in Social Studies.
In reading we will be taking assessments (paper review and online) over poetry.

Next week we will start the novel, A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.

Poetry Terms

January 9-20 we will be analyzing and writing poems. The following are poetic terms for spelling and vocabulary. Spelling choice due Wednesday, January 18. Spelling and Vocabulary Test is January 20.
Imagery_____________________________________________________
speaker______________________________________________________
Haiku_______________________________________________________
Onomatopoeia__________________________________________________
Personification________________________________________________________________
Rhyme______________________________________________________________________
Simile__________________________________________________________________________
Poetry___________________________________________________________________________
Repetition_______________________________________________________________________
rhyme scheme_____________________________________________________________________
narrative poetry____________________________________________________________________
rhythm__________________________________________________________________________
stanza___________________________________________________________________________
alliteration_________________________________________________________________________
repetition_________________________________________________________________________
metaphor__________________________________________________________________________
hyperbole__________________________________________________________________________
free verse_________

Winter Break

Have a restful Winter Break. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Vocabulary Words for January 3-6
1. Assured

2. Bounded

3. Clutched

4. Gratitude

5. Irrelevant

6. Oral

7. Scoured

8. Sequence

9. Crazed

10. Ecstatic

11. Elated

12. Enthusiastic

13. Exuberant

14. Exultant

15. Irrepressible

16. Jubilant

17. Zealous

18. Euphoria

19. Hysteria

20. Apathy

December 8-20

Wow! We have a busy couple of weeks left before our winter break! Let's see...no spelling or European countries to learn the rest of this semester. We identified all of Western Europe, and have watched a video about parts of Eastern Europe. (I'm ready to go to Europe!). We have a guest speaker, Mrs. Michelle Mandry, coming to speak to us Friday. She lived in Germany for three years, and she is going to share her experience with us.

Tuesday is our Christmas program. Please come at 1:00, unless 9:30 is a better time for you. We will be in the gym the whole time during the 1:00 show.

Paul Schamburg is coming to speak with us on Thursday next week about tolerance and diversity.

Friday, the 16th we are watching the third grade play, then off to Princess Theaters to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks. Lunch at school between play and movies.

AR deadline is Monday, 19th. AR popcorn and movie that day.
Classroom Christmas parties at 12:30 on Tuesday the 20th. Please check the form to let us know what you plan to bring.

November 29-December 7

These are vocabulary words for this week. Spelling Choice Due Wednesday, Dec. 7. Spelling Test will also be Wednesday, Dec. 7.

1. Stricken
2. Donned
3. Segment
4. Insolently
5. Strident
6. Faint
7. Bulky
8. Tantalize
9. Hasty
10. Warily
11. Ignore
12. Brave
13. Conceal
14. Halt
15. Temporary
16. Avoid
17. Synonym
18. Antonym
19. Dialogue
20. Genre

This week we are finishing up our novel, Number the Stars. We plan to watch a documentary called Paper Clips, and have a guest speaker come talk about diversity, tolerance, and acceptance to end our unit on the Holocaust.
We will be reading some Norse Myths and some stories from the Storyworks Magazine in December.