CLASSROOM CONNECTION
5/11/09

To Parents and Students:
Please return grade sheets signed.
4th Grade
SPELLING WORDS
strategy – civilization – complex - miserable – professional – tormentors
seedling – ancient – tradition – waist
waste – conversation – throughout –
barbecue – aromatic – opportunities –
mosquito – domain – innovations –
constellations
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Vocabulary Words

outcast(549) civilization(549) staple(550)
bedlam(553) magenta(553) reflected(555) traditional(556) complex(556) domain(556)
innovations(556)
Definitions

___________1 the knowledge, beliefs, or
customs that one generation passes to
another

___________2. a place or condition of wild uproar and confusion

___________3 hard to understand or do

__________4. a society in which agriculture, trade,
government, art, and
science are highly
developed

__________5. hard to understand or do

__________6. a person rejected by and
driven out of a group.

__________7. basic ingredient of a diet


____________8. purplish pink

____________ 9. light, sound, images or heat that is turned, thrown, or bent backat an angle.

___________10. new ideas or methods


HOMEWORK

Spelling
Mon.-Thurs. Study words for test on Friday

Thurs. Take written pretest and write each
misspelled word 5 times.

Reading
Mon. Write a sentence with 1st five
vocabulary words.
Tues. Write a sentence with last five voc. words. Read story pp. 549-553
Wed. Read story pp. 555-558
Thurs. Complete question pg 561 for
a grade.


5th Grade

SPELLING WORD

sacred – stealthily – agility – banquet
commence – inspiration – melancholy
recollection – vagrant – barbarian –
complexity – decisively HOMEWORK


Spelling
Mon.-Tues. Study spelling words for test on Wed.
Mon. Write words in alphabetical order and underline parts that could give you trouble.
Wed. Take written pretest and write each
misspelled word 5 times



6th Grade

Spelling Words

browse – adolescent –pedestrian -
merchandise – beguiling – precipitation - preferably – questionnaire - penicillin =
bilingual - exhilaration – whimsically – luxurious – penitentiary –badminton
boulevard - amphibian - meteorology paralysis - individualize


HOMEWORK
Spelling
Mon. –Thurs. Study spelling words for test on Friday
Mon. Write words in alphabetical order and underline the part(s) that could give you trouble.
Tues. Write words in syllables
Thurs. Take written pretest and write each
misspelled word 5 times.


READING
Thurs. Turn in READ Magazine answers
and “Adopt a Camper” packet on Friday.