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Geography Bee
Collin and Henry were terrific representatives from our class in the Geography Bee! I appreciate their participation and their composure. The Geography Bee also emphasized for all of us how knowing where places are can be important. The winner of the Geography Bee was Chase Kirby. Elena Borges was the runner up. They are both 6th graders.
Upcoming Dates
The General Music Holiday Program will be Thursday, December 16th @ 2:15. The Band and Orchestra Holiday Program will be Tuesday, December 21st @ 2:15.
Student Council Holiday Projects
The student council at Poly Drive is sponsoring two holiday projects. One is to benefit hospital patients at Billings Clinic. They are asking for UNWRAPPED new Christmas tree ornaments. The ornaments will be delivered to the patients with their dinner on Christmas Day.
The second one benefits the Montana Rescue Mission. They are looking for donations, again, UNWRAPPED, of diaper wipes, gift cards, pizza coupons, city bus passes, shaving cream, toothpaste, stocking caps, winter gloves, and socks.
Beginning November 29th (Monday) students can bring the gifts and place them under the Christmas tree in the gym hallway. The gifts will be delivered Friday, December 17th.
NEW: Featured Latin Word Root Drawing—rejuvenate by Sarah!
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Latin Word Root quiz is Thursday this week (juven and ven/vent).
Math
Chapter 2 for 5th grade: Many students struggled with the Distributive Property. They know how to multiply with the traditional algorithm and were confused as to why they needed to learn another method. The reason is two-fold: The Distributive Property is very important in algebra, and they need to become flexible, mathematical thinkers.
Chapter 2 for 4th grade: Introducing variables in equations and how to represent them is the new lesson for 4th graders. Mental math addition was not a problem for most of the 4th graders. The mental math subtraction was a different story. There is a ws that will come home. Both sides are graded, but I did not input the side with the subtraction on it. We will continue to weave this in as we go through the book.
Science
Most atom mobiles are up! They will come down in about 1 week. That is because we are not supposed to have anything hanging in our room, and the law of gravity will take over with some of the nuclei after more than 1 week.
Students are beginning their research on an element.
Element quiz on element cards (students have them) is on Friday this week.
Social Studies
ALL students are beginning map work. We will all start by locating places and labeling them. 5th graders will be doing countries; 4th graders will start with the 50 states. Spelling and capitalization counts! Remind them to take their time on the maps.
5th graders: Took Chapter 2 test (open book). We will be moving quickly through Chapter 3 as well.
5th grade map projects: Evaluations will be coming home today and tomorrow. IF your child did not get a C or better on the project, I expect them to bring that grade up (the effort part of the class). That map will be due on WED, DEC 15th. Please sign the evaluation that I send home today IF your child needs to redo it and return it to me ASAP.
4th graders are still working in Chapter 2 learning about basic types of maps (rainfall, population density, elevation maps, regional maps) and doing activities with them. We should be done this week, with an open book test to follow (they thought that concept was a good one!).
Spelling
No personal spelling words this week.
4th grade spelling words Unit 14 Dec 6th-10th Words ending in –ed or –ing
BASIC: rising, traced, dancing, striped, handled, dared, raced, escaped, stripped, slammed, winning, snapping, bragging, dripped, begged, skipped, hitting, spotted, dimmed, spinning
CHALLENGE: urged, striving, whipped, breathing, quizzed
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY Fables
advise, boastful, compete, crow, rival, conduct, attention, moral
4th grade spelling words Unit 15 Dec 15th -19th More words ending in –ed or –ing
BASIC: wiped, covered, mapped, pleasing, slipped, putting, traveled, seeking, visiting, mixed, shipped, phoning, offered, smelling, hiking, checking, fainted, landed, becoming, wandering
CHALLENGE: amusing, entertained admitted, stunning, starving
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY Maps
key, boundary, capital, international, political, symbol, directions, grid
There will be no spelling the week of December 22-23rd.
5th grade spelling words Unit 14 December 6th-10th VCV pattern
BASIC: exact, credit, vivid, modern, panic, cousin, menu, novel, human, award, behave, basic, evil, nation, robot, select, item, police, prefer, deserve
CHALLENGE: autumn, nuisance, logic, column, laser
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY: The Balance of Nature
Ecosystem, impact, detrimental, consequences, organism, nourish, beneficial, recovery
5th grade spelling words Unit 15 Dec 15-19th VCCCV Pattern
BASIC: conflict, orphan, instant, complex, simply, burglar, laundry, laughter, employ, anchor, merchant, improve, arctic, mischief, freckles, purchase, dolphin, partner, complain, tremble
CHALLENGE: anthem, illustrate, function, conscience, apostrophe
REAL-WORLD VOCABULARY Alaska’s Arctic Region
Frigid, climate, whiteout, midnight sun, permafrost, tundra, caribou, kayak
There will be no spelling the week of December 22-23rd.
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