Monday, May 17, 2010

IT'S OUR LAST FULL WEEK!

Vocabulary Unit 15 - test on Friday before Fun Day!
  1. absorb - to soak up or take; to keep the attention of
  2. amateur - someone who does something for pleasure and not for money; someone who does not have much experience
  3. channel - the deepest part of the river; a body of water that links two large ones;a long narrow groove; a band of radio waves ; a course of action / to make a long narrow groove; to direct or focus
  4. elegant - showing beauty , high quality, and good taste
  5. grace - ease and beauty of movement; a charming or pleasing quality; a short prayer before meals / to add beauty or honor to
  6. inspect - to look over closely
  7. lame - stiff, sore, or not able to move properly; weak, not satisfactory
  8. suspend - to hang in order to allow free movement; to stop for a time, interrupt; to bar from a position or privilege
  9. tiresome - annoyingly dull or exhausting; unexciting
  10. tranquil - free from trouble or disturbance, peaceful and quiet

MASS UNIFORMS ON THURSDAY!

FRIDAY FUN DAY!!!!!

Numbered List

Monday, May 10, 2010

THIS WEEK'S CHANGES!

We are finished with our reader, speller, and language arts books. We are going to use our Vocab book and follow what 4th grade does with vocab for the next two weeks. Hopefully, it will prepare them for next year.
The student will be responsible for spelling the word, knowing its definition, and filling in a sentence with the word.
We have reviewed the process in class, the test will be Friday, May 14th.
The words and their definitions are:
  1. advantage - something that puts someone in a better position.
  2. ambition - a strong desire for importance or success
  3. defiant - showing strong resistance; willing to challenge or confront
  4. fearsome - frightening or alarming
  5. imply - to suggest something without saying it directly
  6. merit - a quality that deserves praise / to be worthy of deserve
  7. negotiate - to discuss in order to arrive at an agreement
  8. purify - to make clean and free of dirt or pollutants
  9. revoke - to cancel by withdrawing or reversing
  10. wretched very unhappy or unfortunate, miserable, very poor in quality

Monday, May 3, 2010

It is a busy, busy, week.

Wednesday is the Spanish festival. Please help your child stay on task with his or her schoolwork. I know we only have a few days left. Sixteen if I am counting right. But we still have a lot to do and we will be busy until the end of school. We will work until our very last day.
The story for this week is "Elena's Serenade". The words are:
  1. cloth
  2. clothes
  3. nature
  4. natural
  5. able
  6. ability
  7. mean
  8. meant
  9. deal
  10. dealt
  11. please
  12. pleasant
  13. sign
  14. signal
  15. signature
  16. equal
  17. equation
  18. equator
  19. major
  20. majority

Have a great week!