This Week

Reading: We are still reading City of Ember. Continue doing your reading strategies and working with your vocabulary.

Social Studies: There is a quiz tomorrow on Chapter 3 Section 1. MAKE SURE YOU STUDY!

Writing: We are finishing up with nouns and going to begin our new writing assignment. It is going to be a Compare and Contrast Essay. More information will come regarding this assignment later this week.
Spelling Words:

List #2 (includes words from list #1): too, to, hear, here, a lot, allot, then, than, weather, whether, piece, peace, your, you're, witch, which, passed, past

List #3 (includes words from list #1 and #2): desert, dessert, stationary, stationery, whose, who's, lose, loose, advise, advice, all ready, already, lead, led, because, cause, through, threw

List #4: (Includes words from list #1-#3) neighbor, weigh, weird, receive, thief, chief, grief, foreign, believe, retrieve, perceive, niece, either, relief, leisure, shriek

List #5: (Includes words from list #1-#4) possess, necessary, embarrass, occasion, occur, tomorrow, vacuum, exaggerate, committee, different, possible, accident, appreciate, appearance, beginning

List #6: (Includes words from list #1-#5) grammar, pronounciation, playwright, misspell, apostrophe, analysis, plagarism, possessive, description, metaphor, simile, antagonist, diagram, singular, character, vague, specific, explanation

STUDY YOUR WORDS!!!

Math: We are working on positive and negative integers. We will be multiplying and dividing positive and negative integers this week. There will be a quiz on Thursday or Friday.

Advisement: Today's advisement lesson is on diversity. We will continue that discussion next Monday.

Student Council: We will be cleaning and packaging the juice pouches up to ship them off.

HOMEWORK:

Writing: Write 2 sentences for each of your spelling words- due Wednesday!

Nouns Poster: Create a poster of 4 nouns- 1 person, 1 place, 1 thing, and 1 idea for the month of February.
- include pictures
- label as common or proper
- label as abstract or contrete (is it something you can actually see-concrete)
DUE THURSDAY!!!