Vocabulary words for the week of 12/05 to 12/09

This weeks root word is miss, mit which means send. Our vocabulary words for this week are admit, dismiss, emit, intermission, missile, mission, omit, remit, submit, transmit. (verb) emit - to send out or give off (such as an odor).

The Christmas ham emitted such a wonderful smell, my stomach growled and grumbled until mom said it was time to eat.

Reading Logs

This is the 3rd week that I have had reading logs in place for homework. I just want to say thank you to all my parents out there for helping me out. I know sometimes it is tough to find 30 minutes in our day, especially the end of our day, to find time to sit our kids down and make them read. I appreciate each and every one of you taking the time to do this. One of the best ways to make our kids better readers is to make them read more! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your help and support!

Vocabulary Words for week 11/28 - 12/02

This weeks root word is port, which means carry. Words for this week are deport, export, import, portable, portage, porter, portfolio, report, support, and transport. These words, for the most part, are words that are familiar to us. On Monday, in class, the students and I went over the definitions and parts of speech for: portage, porter, and portfolio.

Vocabulary Words for Nov. 7th - Nov. 10th

This weeks root word is ject which means to throw. Our vocabulary words are: dejected, eject, injection, interjection, jettison, projectile, projector, reject, subject, trajectory

Starting this week I will require that students write a story using all 10 of their vocabulary words when they do not make a passing grade on the previous weeks vocabulary test. I'm trying to get the kids to take more initiative in studying. So far based on the amount of papers that have been turned into me, this reward/consequence might work :).

Vocabulary words for Oct. 31st - November 4th

Root word for this week is dict = to speak

contradict, dictation, dictator, diction, dictionary, dictum, edict, indictment, predict, verdict

Vocabulary Words for Oct. 24 - Oct. 28

circumspect inspect introspection perspective respect retrospective spectacle spectacles spectator speculate
Trying to see if this format shows up better on Facebook!

Scholastic website

Interested in helping us get new books for our classroom library? Or want some help picking out the perfect book for your student? Then the scholastic website is the perfect place to go. Use our activation code of HHYL3 and we earn points to use for our classroom library with every order made. The book wizard tool helps you find new and exciting books that will engage your student. And it also has a feature that gives you a list of books that are "like" books that your student has read already. Hope this helps you find books that your child might enjoy to help us foster that love of reading!

Vocabulary Words for Oct.17 - Oct. 21

Our root for this week is man, manu which means hand. Our words for this week are:

emancipate
manacles
manager
mandate
maneuver
manicure
manipulate
manual
manufacture
manuscript

Again part of speech, definition, and an original sentence using the word in the correct context is required for vocabulary notebook credit.

Example of required format:

(noun) manual - a handbook; a book of directions

Mrs. Schoenbeck read the manual before trying to fix her dryer.

Vocabulary Words for Oct. 10 - Oct. 14

Starting our Greek and Latin Root word study with ped which means foot

biped
centipede
impediment
millipede
pedal
peddler
pedestrian
pedicure
quadruped
tripod

Vocabulary Note Cards

Okay, so I have made vocabulary flash cards for Units 1 -5 but it is not cost effective for me to try and make copies for everyone. So the flash cards are in a PDF file and if anyone would like a copy of that file all you have to do is email me and I will send it to you!! Makes for quick and easy practicing.

Also, just as a reminder we will not have any new vocabulary words next week because on 10/7 we are having our BIG vocabulary review over Units 1 -5. Hope everyone is having a great week! It's almost Friday so hang in there!!!!

Vocabulary words for this week 9/26 - 9/30

Officially
Preliminary
Opponents
Brutal
Embarrassed
Typically
Gorgeous
Supposedly
Sweeping
Obvious

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IMPACT AID FORMS!!!!

Very IMPORTANT!!!! Impact Aid Forms are going home tonight!!!!! Please make sure to fill them out completely and have your student bring them back to me on Wednesday, September 21, 2011!!!! It is extremely important not only to the school but more important to our class...We are trying to win an extra recess :).

New Sites

I added some new links to study sites that will help with reading and vocabulary. Like I told you in class, it's not like playing XBOX 360 or PS3 ;) but it will help you with those skills that you might need a little practice with (in a semi-fun way :). As always, please make sure that you have permission from your parents before getting online.

Vocabulary Words Lesson 4 Week 4 Sept. 19th - Sept. 23rd

unison
uniform
mastered
competition
identical
element
routine
intimidated
recite
qualifying

Updates

We did not have our grammar test on Friday as planned. I don't like to give to many tests in one day so I switched the grammar test day to Monday. Vocabulary words are being posted in a few minutes.

This week in ELAR we are going to be reviewing sequence of events. We will also, have reading rotations this week so we can use our new listening station (WOOHOO!!). I hope that everyone is having a great weekend so far!

Vocabulary Test

We have our Vocabulary test over lesson 3 tomorrow so STUDY, STUDY, STUDY!! We also have our interactive grammar test on subject and predicate....so study for that as well. It's almost Friday and we are almost done with the week!!!!

Don't forget to study those vocabulary words for your test on Friday!

Listening Center

Just checked the status of our new listening center!!! Should be ready to go by Thursday!!! So excited! On another note....we used our activexpressions today to take our grammer test! Was so much more fun than a paper and pencil test! What did you think?

Criteria for vocabulary notebooks

Here is a visual of what is expected for your vocabulary notebooks:

As you can see part of speech in parenthesis, the vocabulary word, the definition, and a sentence that you came up with. Your vocabulary should follow the format that we discussed in class, we also placed a reminder template at the beginning of our vocabulary notebook. Hope this helps you remember what is required for credit. ;)

The generosity of OUR school!!!

New study sites

New study sites have been added to the blog site....for easy access...make sure that you have parent permission before getting online :).

Vocabulary Words for Week 3 9/12 - 9/16

debate
inflated
shaken
decorated
gradually
hesitated
scanned
stalled
beckoned
prodded

Vocabulary Notebooks

It seems as though some of us are having trouble with getting our weekly vocabulary done and turned in on time. Vocabulary words are given to on the Friday before they are due...and you are given a week to turn them in. This is the only homework that is assigned in this class, and it IS worth a grade. We really need to buckle down and work on our time management skills.

Progress Reports

Progress Reports will be coming out soon! Make sure that you get those vocabulary words done and study, study, study for your tests on FRIDAY :).

A Week at a Glance

This week in ELAR we will review the graphic organizers that we learned about this past week. Also, we we will work on the different types of sentences. We begin what will be an all year study/review of prefixes, suffixes, and affixes with this weeks prefixes non-, un-, dis-, and mis-. Reading focus this week, How text and graphic features help you understand what you are reading better.

Social Studies (for my homeroom only) - we will continue our in class group colonist recruitment posters. We will also start our next lesson on the original 13 colonies.

It's going to be a fun but busy week so make sure that you get plenty of rest and work on those time management skills we have been talking about. Vocabulary test for this weeks words will be on Friday along with your grammar test.

Vocabulary Words Lesson 2 for Sept. 6th - Sept. 9th

function                  delicate              adjusted
operator                 flawed               acute
version                   axis                    simulate
tethered

Vocabulary Notebooks

For those of you that still owe me your vocabulary notebooks from last week, make sure that you bring them with you to class tomorrow!! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful and restful three days off. I can't wait to hear about what you did and to see your faces tomorrow!!!

Vocabulary for this week

Words for this week will be posted in about an hour!

Agendas

Don't forget to get those agendas signed everyday! Vocabulary notebooks are due to me on Friday during your normal class time. In order to get full credit you need to have the words, the parts of speech, the definitions, and also your sentence using the words (in the proper context). Also, don't forget that you must have your words done in the format that we practiced in order to receive credit.

Vocabulary Words for Week 1 08/29 - 09/02

disturbing
interrupted
squashing
specialty
struggled
staggered
wobbled
collapsed
numb
shifted

Monday, August 29th

Tomorrow is the first day of Vocabulary!!! I'm excited, how about you? I will be posting the vocabulary words for this week tomorrow morning!

Genre hangman today!!! So much fun...kids were using some great strategies to figure out the answers. Love to listen to them reason out answers!

Beginning of day 3...can't wait to see all those AWAKE, bright, and shiny faces!

I'm beat and I'm sure the kids are too! Rest up because tomorrow we start genre review and vocabulary!

Second day of school went well. We started our rotations and the day just seemed to fly by.

So excited for Monday!!! Got to meet quite a few of my kids and their parents tonight! Looks like it's going to be a GREAT year!!!!

Today's training!

Learning how to do some cool and fun stuff in the classroom with the promethean board!!!

The classroom is almost ready for KIDS!!!

30 more minutes until I'm outta here!!! Can't wait to get home!

Make sure to get your school supplies!!!

Summer vacation pictures

1st from phone

Crossing my fingers and hoping this works!!!!! Wish me some techie luck!!!

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Thursday Morning

Today I had a Coke Zero for breakfast :)