Spelling Unit 8
List A: everybody, anywhere, knowledge, brainstorm, stomachache, outstanding, sweatshirt, videotape, meanwhile, old-fashioned, long-distance, duffel bag, child’s play, absent-minded, daybreak, high school, headquarters, themselves
List B: spoil, choice, avoid, moisture, oyster, royal, employ, annoy, ground, house, sprout, mountain, allow, ourselves, somehow, ounce, amount, boundary
Challenge Words: astronomy, gravitational
Assignments Due and Test Friday
If you want to enter the Remembrance Day Poster/Essay/Poetry contests you must return the signed FRIDAY! Your artwork/writing cannot be submitted without the signed forms. You must complete a form every entry (possibly up to 4 – you can enter one entry into each of the 4 categories.)
If you child forgot to bring home the entry form, you can download it at the following address: Remembrance Day Entry Form
Students started their planet research projects today. They choose partners and then drew names to pick planets. The students will spend the next couple weeks completing research on their planet to create a poster to present to the class at the end of the unit.
For more info and some excellent links on the planets, please check out the planet research page above. It also has a copy of the research guide – students do not need to worry about the Astronomical Units calculations. I had already printed out the guides and forgot to delete them from the assignment.
The will be no school Wednesday, Nov. 11 to honour Remembrance Day.
School will re-open Thursday.
There will be the Scholastic Book Fair in the library again this year. This event helps raise money to purchase new books for the library.
The Book Fair is scheduled for: November 16-19
Monday – Thursday: 12:20 pm – 1:00 pm
Monday – Wednesday: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Family Night: Tuesday from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
There will be a Remembrance Day Assembly at Sunset tomorrow. It is scheduled for 10:00 am. The Assembly will be hosted by a couple members of Student Council, with the help of a couple classes and a local guest.
There is no school Wednesday, November 11 to honour Remembrance Day. Members of the Sunset Student Council will be attending the ceremony at the cenotaph to lay Sunset’s wreath.
The grade 5 students will be joining Mrs. Lok’s class to start the D.A.R.E. Program tomorrow. D.A.R.E. is a drug and alcohol awareness program sponsored and provided by the RCMP.
There was no officer trained in presenting D.A.R.E. last year, so the current grade 6’s missed the program. The RCMP Officer providing the program this year will hopefully be providing a condensed version of the program for the current grade 6’s later in the year.
List A: gestured, gesturing, hesitated, hesitating, studied, studying, prescribed, prescribing, skied, skiing, lonelier, loneliest, friendlier, friendliest, cleaner, cleanest, angrier, angriest
List B: gloomy, school, choose, loose, route, clue, truth, duty, ruin, Tuesday, usually, threw, understood, neighbourhood (the American spelling is in the assignment), rookie, could, should, bulletin
Challenge Words: Remembrance, cenotaph
Assignments Due and Test Friday
The class is going to start a home reading program. I have asked students to read for 30 minutes, up to 5 nights a week. 10 minutes aloud with a parent or sibling and 20 minutes quietly. They can read whatever they like, as long as it is reading (magazines, comics, graphic novels, novels, non-fiction books, etc. ) The students record that they read in their planners on the Month-at-a-Glance pages (November is pages 42/43). Please just initial by the book on the date they read.
Students will be given a ticket for the monthly book draw for every 5 days they read.
This is just a reminder that the Grade 5’s Camp Homewood Coffee Order Fundraiser #1 is Due this Thursday, Nov. 5. It is also a prepaid order, students must collect the money before the order can be placed.
Mr. Ogren's Music Class 