Hello From Mrs. B
Classroom Updates
Jag Challenge
Explorers' Project
I am so excited about this project! Here is the long and short of it....
Students must create an explores notebook with all of the 15 items listed in the document. It can be typed or handwritten. They can draw the pictures or print off the internet and label. The notebook should look like something from that time period ( no staples, graphs, excel, etc. )
Students must also create a culture box (again decorated to look like the period) and include 6 items that would tell about the chosen explorer. The items can be created or found!
Lastly, students must dress like their explorer!! Please spend little or no money on the outfit. Just find things from around the house or in your closets to make do. I have a wonderful imagination!!!
Project due date is Oct. 22. Students should bring their costume, notebook, and culture box to school and be ready to present their explorer.
Up Coming Dates
Monday: Ch. 2.3 Quiz
Thursday: Social Studies chapter 2 test
Friday: Spelling Test & Vocabulary Test
Wednesday, October 22: Explorer Project Presentation Day!
Vocabulary Review Week!!
This week for our Vocabulary Quiz we will have a review over the first 5 weeks. I will not have every word on the quiz. I will only have 25 words from the comics ONLY. There will be no sentences just matching. Here is the words from the past 6 lesson just in case your child did not hold on to the comics like I asked :) I will also be sending this list home with them tomorrow! Review!! Review!! Review!!
Abduct: To kidnap or carry off by force
Guerrillas: members of an irregular military force
Buffoon: a joker; a fool
Flounder: to move clumsily
Culture: products of human work
Elegant: exhibiting elegance
Inhabit: to live or dwell in
Goad: to urge, prick, or prod
Fertile: highly productive
aqueduct: a large pipe for carrying water
dilemma: a difficult situation
encroach: to intrude or trespass
expunge: to remove; to delete or erase
allude: to refer to casually
fleet: a group of cars, boats, or other type of vessels
Parallel: running alongside
horizontal: parallel to level ground
vertical: straight up and down
scrutinize: to look very carefully
drench: to wet thoroughly: to soak
shun: to keep away from
resident: one who lives in a place
petulant: ill humor, irritable, cranky
obsolete: out of date; no longer in
magnate: a rich, powerful, or successful
despite: in spite of
conceal: to keep from being seen
climate: refers to weather conditions
swelter: oppressed by heat
wean: to withdraw from
shoddy: of poor quality
transpire: to happen
hoax: a practical joke
qualm: a feeling of illness
harsh: unpleasant to the senses
famine: a shortage of food
adjacent: next to
wary: to be alert
dread: to be in terror of
aghast: shocked, frightened
hypnotize: to put into a sleep like state
dovetail: fit together harmoniously
gape: to become wide open
outfox: to outwit
afloat: a floating condition
carp: to complain
endorse: to give approval
remainder: what is left when a part is taken away
craven: cowardly
enroll: to make or become a member
The Wrap-up
Jag's Challenge
Explorer Project
Review week for Vocabulary