Important Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday, 5/22 - Instrumental Music Concert
UPDATE**Friday, 5/25 - Field Day & Volunteer Tea ** new date as of 5/22**
*No School on Monday, 5/28
Tuesday, 6/5 - Barnes & Noble Fundraiser @ BN Bethesda, 4:30 - 7:30
Wednesday, 6/6 - 5th Grade, Grade Level Party in school 12:45 - 2:45
Friday, 6/8 - Hearts for the Hungry Sandwich Making - 9:00 - 10:30
Friday, 6/8 - Mr. Palmer's Retirement Party @ Rock Creek Mansion 4:30- 7:30, Parents Invited
Friday, 6/8 - 5th Grade Center Celebration @ @Meadowbrook Park, 6-9
Tuesday, 6/12 - Last Day, Center Recognition @9:15 and reception to follow, early release day



Homework
Monday, May 21
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Classical Roots Lesson 15, 3 assignments due 5/25-Novel Study - week 2 project due 5/23

Tuesday, May 22 -
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Classical Roots Lesson 15, 3 assignments due 5/25-Novel Study - week 2 project due 5/23

Wednesday, May 23
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Classical Roots Lesson 15, 3 assignments due 5/25
Novel Study - week 3 project due 5/30

Thursday, May 24
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Classical Roots Lesson 15, 3 assignments due tomorrow
-Novel Study - week 3 project due 5/30

Friday, May 25
-Read 45 minutes
-Friday folder

Have a fantastic weekend!

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Spelling -
Classical Roots lesson 15
week of 5/21, due 5/25

Classical Roots lesson 14
week of 5/14, due 5/18

Classical Roots Lesson 13
week of 5/7, due 5/14 (Monday)

Classical Roots Lesson 12
week of 4/23, due 4/27

William & Mary words
week of 4/16, due 4/20 : oft, cranny, axis, caper(v), diffuse, boisterous, proverb, aphid, 
besiege, cache

Classical Roots Lesson 11
due 4/13

Classical Roots Lesson 10
week of 3/5, due 3/9

My Daniel Words, the number in parentheses is the page number from the book where you can find the word used in context.  expectant (8) traipsing (9) plied (10)ornery (11) pewter (11)  soddy (14) vast (15) prospectors (28) coaxed (19) plodded (18)
week of 2/21, due 3/2

Classical Roots lesson 9
week of 2/13, due 2/17

Classical Roots lesson 8
week of 2/6, due 2/10

Poetry Words 2 - couplet, ambiguous, allusion, syntax, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, irony, foreshadowing, mood, pathetic fallacy, synecdoche (sin ek duh kee)
week of 1/24, due 2/3

Classical Roots lesson 7
week of 1/9, due 1/20

Poetry Words 1: alliteration, connotation, denotation, assonance,  free verse, haiku, imagery, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, terse, simile
week of 12/19, due 1/6

Classical Roots Lesson 6 + polysyllabic: a word containing more than one syllable AND magniloquent: speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
week of 12/12, due 12/16

Survival Words 2 - arduous, bereft, consternation, superfluous, vertigo, acrid, erratic,  harbinger, mesmerized, genial, undulates,
week of 12/5, due 12/9

Classical Roots Lesson 5
week of 11/28 - due 12/2

Survival Words 1
week of 11/14, due 11/18
precipitously, frenetically, careened, entity, dubious, oblique, plummeting, roiling, uncanny, doleful, procure, veldt, novice

Classical Roots Lesson 4
week of 11/7  due 11/11

Classical Roots Lesson 3
week of 10/24, due 10/28

Hero Words #2
week of 10/10, 3 assignments due 10/17
contention, convulsed, dismally, hoisted, inevitable, involuntarily, recuperate, volition, chastised, seethe, perpetrators, denouncing, fateful

Classical Roots Lesson 2
week of 9/26, due 10/7

Hero Words #1
Week of 9/19, due 9/23
bade, jostled, maiming, tyrant, graze, fatigue, resolution, indignantly, clambered, diplomatically, station, valiant, yowling

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