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Cloudland Canyon

in Northwest Georgia

1^st Period	Reading
2^nd Period	Language Arts
3^rd Period	Math
4^th Period	Science with Ms. Williams
5^th Period	Social Studies (6^th/7^th grades)

Reading

We are now reading the novel Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass.

Ask your child to summarize the story for you.

The second vocabulary list has been sent home. The vocabulary test will be on Tuesday, October 31. Students did well on the first test! Please help your child study these words!

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Vocabulary for chapters 5-9

identical -	The very same.
safari -	An expedition or journey, as for hunting, especially in eastern Africa.
disturb -	To break in on or interrupt, especially with noise or disorder: to disturb someone’s rest.
scowl -	To lower the eyebrows and draw them together, as in anger or sullenness; frown.
responsible	Obliged to carry out or take care of, as a duty, trust, or debt.
ascend -	To go upward; rise.
imminent -	Likely to happen soon.
antiques -	Of or from early times; very old.
contraband	Goods that cannot legally be imported or exported; smuggled goods.

Students are required to read every night for 30 minutes. Reading homework will always be to read and record what was read in the Reading Log. I will grade Reading Logs on Mondays. Students should have at least 5 entries in the Reading Log. For the first 10 minutes, students should read aloud to an adult or an older brother or sister. During the next 20 minutes, students can read aloud, read silently, listen to a book on tape, or listen to someone else read. Reading, like anything else, takes practice!!! Please help your child to get this valuable practice by reading with him or her every night.

These are the “Reading Strategies” that we are learning to implement. The strategy/strategies in BLUE are what we are working on this week:

Main idea and details

Compare and Contrast

Following Directions

Classifying

Cause and Effect

Problem Solution

Sequencing

These are the “Literary Elements” that we continue to use almost every day as we read short stories and novels. Please go over these words with your child from time to time.

Plot

Setting

Characters

Narrator

Climax

Conflict

Resolution

Point of View

1^st Person

3^rd Person

Theme

Genre

Tone

Language Arts

We will continue our study of Pronouns this week. Students will learn the six kinds of pronouns:

1. personal (1^st person- I, my, me, we, our, ours, us; 2^nd person – you, your, yours; 3^rd person – he, his, him, she, her, hers, it, its, they, their, theirs, them)

2. possessive – my, mine, our, ours, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, their, theirs

3. reflexive - myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves

4. demonstrative – this, that, these, those

5. indefinite – all, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, few, many, more, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, one, other, several, some, somebody, something

6. interrogative – who, whom, whose, what, which

All information will be in your child’s PURPLE Language Arts folder! Please begin to study today!!

We are also working on the writing process, and we will be doing a lot of journal writing. Last week we wrote poems about SMS. Please come and see them at the Intel Celebration on November 8!

Homework for the week:

Homework will be announced in agendas!!! Worksheets can be found in Purple folders!

Math

We continue to work on equivalent fractions and on ordering fractions from least to greatest and from greatest to least. We will begin Mixed numbers and Improper Fractions this week.

Cooking is an excellent way to practice fractions!!!

Please see agenda for homework assignments as they depend on how far we get in the lessons every day! You should see homework coming home EVERY night this week, Mon.-Fri.

Chapter 4 Study Guide

Math Counts

Science

Mrs. Melanie Williams’ Science Class

Vocabulary

We are studying the Solar System. Please see Mrs. Williams’ website for further details.

Social Studies

We will finish the Middle East this week. Hopefully, our students will come out of this study with a better understanding of why there’s so much conflict in the Middle East.

Please begin to help your children study their notes which should be found in their Social Studies Notebooks!!!

Our next test will a CRCT practice test probably at the end of the week! Study the notes sent home!