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No Reading Logs are due this week and we have no vocabulary test. Please encourage your students to continue to read every night!

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Reading Logs are due Friday, May 17th. Students are only responsible for Monday-Thursday but may fill out additional days for extra credit.

Students will also have a vocabulary test on Friday, May 17th.
5A Vocabulary
  1. Variety
  2. Affect
  3. Classify
  4. Nutrients
  5. Inhabitants
  6. Mimic
  7. Vital
  8. Alarming
  9. Quality
 
5B Vocabulary
  1. Intently
  2. Cede
  3. Bothersome
  4. Divulge
  5. Scandal
  6. Staunch
  7. Mere
  8. Hunch
  9. Considerable

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Reading Logs are due Friday, May 10th. Students are only responsible for Monday-Thursday but may fill out additional days for extra credit.

Students will also have a vocabulary test on Friday, May 10th. 
5A Vocabulary
  1. Impoverished
  2. Prosperous
  3. Abundant
  4. Boundary
  5. Burdened
  6. Diverse
  7. Transformation
  8. Anthropologist
  9. Neglected
  10. Corrals
 
 
5B Vocabulary
  1. Immunity
  2. Artisans
  3. Navigational
  4. Agricultural
  5. Irrigate
  6. Strategic
  7. Hampered
  8. Massive
  9. Dwindling
  10. Succumbing



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No reading logs are due this week however please continue to encourage students to read at home every night. 
We will have a vocabulary test on Friday, May 3rd.
5A
1. Heaved
2. Raged
3. Anxiously
4. Cinders
5. Falter
6. Urgently
7. Sternly
8. Wreckage
 
5B
1. Tagging along
2. Shrieks
3. Guidebook
4. Tracking
5. Stowaways
6. Lecture
7. Distinctive
8. Eliminate
9. Candidates
10. Snout

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Reading Logs are due on Friday, April 26th. We will also have a vocabulary test on Friday, April 26th. Students were given time in class to work on their vocabulary.
 
Vocabulary Words for 5A
  1. Lava
  2. Ash
  3. Geologists
  4. Predict
  5. Scalding
  6. Pressure
  7. Column
  8. Sweeping
  9. Oozed
Vocabulary Words for 5B
  1. Flora
  2. Obstructed
  3. Ramble
  4. Discern
  5. Slithered
  6. Calculated
  7. Assessed

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Vocabulary Test on Friday (4/19)
1. Downy
2. Seldom
3. Blustery
4. Exceptionally
5. Scurrying
6. Lurched
7. Veered
8. Indifferent
9. Vegetation
10. Emerging
 
Reading Logs will also be due on Friday, April 19th. 

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Reading Logs are due on Friday, April 12th. Students received a new copy of the reading log last Friday at the end of the day.

We will also have a vocabulary test on Friday, April 12th. Students were given time in class to work on their vocabulary.

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Reading logs will be due on Friday, March 29th. Due to Spring Break, students are only required to fill in this reading log for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Students will receive a new reading log on Friday and we will be back on schedule. 
Students will also have a short vocabulary quiz on Friday. Vocabulary words for the classes are as follows:
 
5A
1. Literature
2. Informed
3. Grandeur
4. Deliberately
5. Pondered
6. Giddy
7. Ornamental
8. Foretold
9. Conducted
10. Humble
 
5B
1. Proclamation
2. Commanded
3. Temperate
4. Prevailing
5. Ushers
6. Ebb
7. Mature
8. Tender
9. Reliable
10. Basins
 

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Reading Logs are due this Thursday (3/14) due to the short week. 

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5B received new vocabulary words today. If they did not finish they vocabulary words in class, they must finish them for homework. The test will be on Monday.
Interior
Weathered
Swarm
Dusk
Handle
Regulate
Freshwater
Dormant
Convulse
Leathery
 
Students can also submit a reading this log Friday for extra credit or to replace a missing reading log. However, there is no formal reading log for this week. Students will need to submit a reading log for 3/14. 

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Reading Logs are due on Friday, March 01.
 
Students should study their vocabulary words each night. We will have a vocabulary test on Monday, March 4th. 
 
5A Vocab
Adobe
Burro
Endure
Wary
Furrow
Ample
Drudgery
Shun
Habitat
 
5B Vocab
Skitter
Rasp
Pointed
Segment
Wince
Glance
Register
Painstaking
Quantity
Tense

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Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday!
 
5A Vocabulary Words
Decipher
Enable
Circulate
Interpretation
Inscription
Bulk
Equivalent
Corresponding
Confirm
Complex
 
 
5B Vocabulary Words
Symptom
Quarantine
Freight
Musher
Wade
Twilight
Eerie
Plight
Epidemic
Treacherous

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Reading Logs are due on Friday, February 15th! Please make sure your student fills out and submits their reading log every Friday. 
 

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This week's Reading Logs will be due Monday, February 11th due to the teacher workday on Friday. Students will receive a new reading log on Thursday and should still complete all sections for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
 
There will be a vocabulary test on Monday, February 11th as well.
5A Vocabulary Words
  1. Tremors
  2. Strut
  3. Quiver
  4. Frantic
  5. Anxious
  6. Horrify
  7. Muffle
  8. Gasp
  9. Bare
  10. Eruption
5B Vocabulary Words
  1. Abundance
  2. Criticize
  3. Evidence
  4. Organize
  5. Prefer
  6. Elegant
  7. Insurance
  8. Specialize
  9. Ignorance
  10. Existence

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There will be a vocabulary test on Monday, February 4th. Students were given time in class to look up their words in the dictionary. We will also go over the vocabulary words in class on Thursday (1/31) so there is no confusion. 
 
5A  - Vocabulary Words
  1. Presumed
  2. Philosopher
  3. Curious
  4. Bewilder
  5. Interval
  6. Imbedded
  7. Inspired
  8. Elaborate
  9. Elegant
  10. Catastrophic
5B - Vocabulary Words
  1. Orbit
  2. Endeavor
  3. Accomplishment
  4. Persevere
  5. Glitches
  6. Fatigue
  7. Descend
  8. Venture
  9. Awry
  10. Resounding

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5th Grade Composition
A - Student autobiographies are due on Friday.
B - Science fiction short stories are due on Friday.
 
ELA - Reading Logs are due on Friday for both A and B. 

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  • Reading Logs are due Friday, January 25th. 
  • Students should also continue working on their science fair projects.
    • By Friday the sections Purpose, Background Research, Hypothesis, Materials and Procedures should be completed.
    • Students should type these sections and have the option of submitting them to Ms. Miner for printing if necessary.