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REMINDERS: Parents,

Please encourage your child to read 20 minutes each day. Students should log in their time and parents need to initial the log each day. New logs can be obtained from the pocket folder in the classroom.

Please check with your student about their supplies. Each day students need to bring their Agendas, pencils, notebook paper, black or blue and red pens, and a highlighter.

Summer is almost here.

May 19, 2008

Monday

Spelling:

Read 20 minutes and have parents sign log.

Vocabulary

May 20, 2008

Tuesday

Spelling:

Reading –

Vocabulary -

Social Studies – May 19, 2008.

Wednesday

May 21, 2008

Write a sentence with spelling words 1-10.

Reading – Read 20 minutes and have parents sign log.

Vocabulary - Study words and definitions.

Social Studies – Work on research outline, turn in completed outline on Friday May 9, 2008.

Thursday

May 22, 2008

Write a sentence with spelling words 11-20, study for spelling test.

Study for vocabulary test and reading test using notes from class.

Social Studies – Work on research outline, turn in completed outline on Friday May 9, 2008.

Friday

May 23, 2008

Spelling Test

Vocabulary Test and Reading Test

Social Studies – Turn in completed research outline today, Friday May 9, 2008.

Spelling words Lesson 33

Idaho
South
Hawaii
East
Kansas
Iowa
North
Florida
Alaska
West
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Colorado
Arkansas
Illinois
Alabama
Indiana
Georgia
Arizona

Vocabulary Words and Definitions.

Esperanza Rising pp. 234 - 262

Exotic - Strikingly strange or unusual.

Infuriated - made furious, mad, angry, or enraged.

Careen - Zigzag or move back and forth quickly

Obsessed - Be preoccupied with something.

Plateau - A hill or mountain with a level top

Skeptically - To think about something with uncertainty; to have doubts about something.

Makeshift - something used in place of the usual item

Mottled - Having spots or patches of color.

Cacophony - loud; harsh; bright

Hovered - Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above.

Deceiving - Be false to; be dishonest with.

Infinite - Never ending; going on forever

primly - prissy, formal, rigid.

mature - having the qualities of someone who, or something that, is fully grown or developed.

buoyed – To maintain at a high level; support:

escorted - One or more persons accompanying another to guide, protect, or show honor.

tangy- A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice

rumpled- to crumple or crush into wrinkles

torrent - a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.

Peggy Dornbusch M.Ed.
Fifth Grade Teacher, ELA and SS

Draper Intermediate School
972-429-3000 ext. 6215
Peggy.Dornbusch@WylieISD.net