This Week (May 24-27)

**Short week, no spelling words...**

**Students need to finish the rough draft of their persuasive papers on "school uniforms" and complete the checklist. The checklist should be signed by a parent and turned in on Tuesday (May 25).

**Don't forget: The Chapter 15 (force and motion) Science Test is Wednesday (May 26).

More Updates

**Upcoming field trips: Fort Caroline on Thursday, May 20 (Permuy and Gordon homerooms); NASA on Friday, May 21; Cummer Art Gallery on Thursday, June 3

**Spring picture packets have been distributed...please send in your payment or return the packet.

**Students are asked to wear (appropriate) hats to school tomorrow (May 18) to honor our Don Brewer volunteers. "Hats Off" to our volunteers!!

**No spelling words this week...

**SCIENCE--Chapter 15 vocab. quiz this Wed., May 19; The Chapter 15 TEST will be on Wed., May 26. Review all vocabulary, checkpoint questions and worksheets. Read back over the lessons (pages 434-449).

Science Vocabulary Quiz

Just a reminder...
We will have a quiz on the vocabulary terms from Chapter 15. The terms are all listed on page 435 of the science book.

Class Updates

Spelling List:
1.multiply 2.imagination 3.favorite 4.computer 5.citizenship 6.invisible 7.undercover
8.enjoyment 9.discussion 10.America 11.unusual 12.example 13.melody 14.temperature
15.understanding 16.experiment 17.explanation 18.oxygen 19.landmark 20.diagram
**The test for these words will be on Friday, May 14. (The homework will be due on the 14th, as well.)

**The rough draft of our "response to literature" is due this Friday, May 7. Each student should go over their draft with an adult.

**Upcoming field trips:
The NASA date has been changed to May 21. A new permission slip was sent home and needs to be returned.
We are still collecting money for the Cummer Art Gallery trip and the Ft. Caroline trip. Please see your child's permission slip for dates and other info.

This Week (April 26-30)

Spelling:
1.lazy 2.volcano 3.flavor 4.piano 5.recent 6.really 7.item 8.pilot 9.triangle
10.climate 11.gigantic 12.program 13.obey 14.puny 15.prepare 16.vacant 17.pulley
18.menu 19.boundary 20.revolution

NOTE:
**Science Assessment (Sound): Tuesday, May 4
Review pages 406-415, vocabulary terms (wavelength, frequency, compression, pitch), and worksheets from lessons 1 and 2 ("What is sound energy?" and "How is sound made?")

This Week (April 19-23)

Spelling Words:
1.frighten 2.flight 3.brighter 4.flashlight 5.mighty 6.delight 7.tighten 8.nightly
9.sight 10.brought 11.ought 12.thought 13.fought 14.caught 15.daughter 16.taught
17.fault 18.naughty 19.possibilities 20.journey

**The play will be THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 22.**
**Our school carnival will be on Friday (April 23).**

This Week (April 12-16)

Spelling Words:
1.action 2.fiction 3.mission 4.divide 5.division 6.attend 7.attention 8.pollute
9.pollution 10.express 11.expression 12.educate 13.education 14.music 15.musician
16.magic 17.magician 18.physician 19.graph 20.carnivore
(*We started working with the words before spring break. The test will be this Friday, April 16.)

Some updates:
**This Wednesday (4/14)will be an "Early Release" day.
**Group picture day is Thursday (4/15).
**The Spring Carnival will be held next Friday, April 23.
**The 4th grade play is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, April 22...but might be moved to the 29th. I'll keep you posted!
**Our book fair will be next week (4/19-23).

This Week (March 22-26)

Spelling Words: (homophones)
1.herd 2.heard 3.clothes 4.close 5.hour 6.our 7.two 8.too 9.their 10.there 11.ceiling 12.sealing 13.shoot 14.chute 15.strait 16.straight 17.medal 18.meddle
19.face 20.axis

We are back to our normal homework schedule this week.

Some Important Updates

Here are some updates that have been posted on the homework board:
(You should also find them written in your child's planner...)

**FCAT begins on March 9 and will continue (for 4th graders) through March 11...thank you to those of you who have already sent in snacks!

**No spelling words next week (March 8-12) or the week after (March 15-19)...we are taking time off to prepare for upcoming Science and Social Studies tests that will happen the week after FCAT.

**We will be working on lesson reviews of Science and Social Studies in class. Students know that their "lesson review worksheets" should be used as study guides for the tests. The correct answers will be given in class. It is each child's responsibility to copy down the correct answers and KEEP UP WITH THEIR WORK!! I will be checking for the COMPLETION of all lesson review sheets on Friday,
March 12. As we complete a review sheet, it should travel back and forth from school to home (and then back to school again), every day.
**Science Test (The Human Body)--Tuesday, March 16
**Social Studies Test (Florida...From Territory to Statehood)--Friday, March 19

We're on the Countdown to FCAT!!

FCAT begins next Tuesday, March 9. I know we will all be ready!!

This week's spelling:
1.enough 2.tougher 3.fifty 4.pharmacy 5.alphabet 6.nephew 7.trophy 8.paragraph
9.telephone 10.photograph 11. giraffe 12.forest 13.figure 14.refrigerator 15.draft
16.phrase 17.traffic 18.chief 19.erosion 20.coordination

Science:
We are continuing our studies on the HUMAN BODY...
In class, we will be working in cooperative groups to make "models" of the systems within the human body.
WE ARE NOT WORKING ON A SCIENCE PROJECT AT THIS TIME!

**Let's have a great week!!**

February 16-19

Don't forget: Monday is Presidents' Day (No School!!)

Spelling Words:
1.cinder 2.circle 3.cardinal 4.cereal 5.cycle 6.concert 7.dancer 8.celebrate 9.twice
10.dangerous 11.strange 12.ledge 13.damage 14.geography 15.gentle 16.signal
17.regular 18.sugar (no 19. or 20. this week)

Science:
Students should have noted that we will have a test (covering Ch.1, lesson 1 and
Ch.2, lesson 1) on Friday, February 19.
The test will cover information on cells and plants. Review pages 7-9 and 47-49. The vocabulary terms from these lessons are: cell, nucleus, chloroplast, photosynthesis and chlorophyll.

**A big THANK YOU to all of our students for their hard work on our Writing FCAT this past week!! They were focused and ready to write!

FCAT Writes!

There will be NO Spelling homework this week. Look for a Writing packet with FCAT information in your child's planner. Please review the packet, then sign and return the bottom portion of the cover sheet.
**FCAT Writes will be administered on February 9**

Spelling: (for NEXT week--the test will be Feb.12)
1.also 2.bought 3.cough 4.almost 5.false 6.officer 7.soft 8.stalk 9.halt 10.faucet
11.saucer 12.caution 13.lawyer 14.awesome 15.stall 16.crawl 17.awful 18.because
19.equivalent 20.remedies

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation! We are settling back in to our "normal" routine. The Writing FCAT is right around the corner! We are working to prepare for either a Narrative or an Expository prompt. The test will be administered on February 9.

We will not have a Spelling test next week because of the holiday on Monday and the planning day on Friday. I am posting the words for the following week (Jan. 25-29).

Spelling:
1.leaf 2.leaves 3.wolf 4.wolves 5.potato 6.potatoes 7.roof 8.roofs 9.family
10.families 11.library 12.libraries 13.journey 14.journeys 15.hero 16.heroes
17.ditch 18.ditches 19.narrative 20.expository