Friday, February 23rd

Dear Parents:

Our classroom could use a few things:
Kleenex boxes (so sorry, flu season hit us hard!)
toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls for our Secret Garden Party (as many as you can offer)

Please make sure your students come to school with Across Five Aprils by Thursday, March 1st.


ELA:

Ago, actum (L) do, act, drive, perform
• Derivatives to use: Act, agent, agile, navigate, coagulate, prodigal

Pendo, pensum (L) hang down, weigh, consider, judge
• Derivatives to use: Pensive, suspend, suspense, expensive, expend

Hyper (G) above, overly, beyond
• Derivatives to use: Hyperbole, hyperactive, hyperglycemia, hyperventilate

Hypo (G) under, below
• Derivatives to use: Hypodermic, hypothermia, hypochondria, hypoallergenic, hypothesis

Spelling words: responsible, response, application, apply, difficulty, difficult, scene, science, descend, descent

Math: We will conclude and test students on the area unit. The area test will be on Friday, March 2nd.

History: We will conclude and test students on the the Westward Expansion unit. The test will be on Thursday, March 2

Science: We will continue our study of the skeletal system.

Spanish:  Test for Unit 3 is on Friday

Literature: We will conclude The Secret Garden. Students are not required to work on their alphabet posters over the weekend unless they would like to get a head start. I will give them a couple of days in class next week to work on it. Due date is Wednesday, February 28th.