Nov. 29th - Dec. 3rd

Thanks for your contribution for our Thanksgiving activity. 

Boys enjoyed having a nice snack, and our maintenance personnel  was extremely happy and thankful for the lunch and the baskets  that they received.

I hope that you have enjoyed the Father and Son Retreat!

Our Term Exams begin on Tuesday.

• Remember to study ahead of time, review contents from you book, notebook, tests and class activities.
• Use your Study Guide, in order to know the dates and contents for each Term Exam.
• Exams for this week:   Grammar- Tuesday 30th ,              Science Dec.1st and Reading and Writing Dec. 2nd.
• We will review through out the week the contents related to our Term Exams.

Nov. 22nd -26th

We will celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday 25th. Each boy will bring the contribution that was assigned previously. Let's give thanks to God for all the good things that we've gotten.

Term Exams

Our term exams will begin next week. Let's start reviewing and studying at home the following topics:

During this week we will be working on the following topics:

Grammar:

• Common and Proper Nouns

Reading and Writing:

•  The 5 Ws and How

G.K

• Raphael Sanzio

Science

• Plant Classification

Assignments

• Bring your contribution for Thursday 25th.
• Bring the pictures that were already asked from Raphael Sanzio also for Thursday 25th.
• Start studying for the Term Exams.
• Finish the G.K Reviews from your notebook if they were not finished in class.
• Complete pages 76 and 77 from your Grammar and Writing Book for Friday 26th.
• Complete Maniac Magee activity for Friday 26th ( It was handed out last Friday 19th. )

Father & Son Retreat

It will be held during this weekend.Have fun!

Dear Parents,

This is just to remind you that checking every week your child's notebooks, tests, and class activities is very important.

Nov 15th to 19th

ORAL SKILLS

Boys will present their speeches during this week. It's very important to take into account the indicators that will be evaluated.

Dear parents,

Remember to SUPPORT your son with your guidance, let them do their job!!!

READING AND WRITING
Our Reading and Writing test 1 will be on Wednesday 17th. Please study:

• Similes and Metaphors
• Short Story "From the Diary of Leigh Botts "
• Faith and Eddie 
•  Tall Tales

We will keep on reading the story " The Diver and the Dolphin". We argued in the classroom about how some human beings have injured and attacked such incredible creatures as dolphins.
There is a very controversial documentary, that was filmed in Japan, that shows this cruel reality.

If you will like to get an extra credit in our Reading and Writing test 1, write a short paragraph giving your personal opinion about this controversial matter. The documentary is named "THE COVE".Hand it in with your test on Wednesday.

http://www.thecovemovie.com/

GRAMMAR
Our Grammar test 3 will be on Monday 15th.
SPELLING  We will not have a Spelling Test this week.
G.K
We will keep on working on Donatello Di Nicolo Di Betto Bardi. We'll review some artists.

Up- Coming Events

• Remember to bring before Friday, 1 christmas wrapping paper, 1 transparent celophane paper and your contribution for the janitors'baskets. These will be assembled next week before Thanksgiving Feast.

• Pictures from Raphael Sanzio for Monday 22nd: Sistine Madonna, The School of Athens, Transfiguration.
•  Don’t forget your contribution for Thursday 25^th. We will have a Thanksgiving Feast.

Poetry Contest

Congratulations to the winners of our Classroom Poetry Contest!

These participants will represent us at our school poetry contest! 

We wish them  the best luck!

#5 will be their subtitute!

1st place = #23

2nd place= #15

  

3rd place = #21

 

 

 

Grammar Test 3

Dear parents and students,

Our Grammar test 3 ( only 5 grade C) has been changed from Friday 12th to Monday 15th. 

Please practice the topics already mentioned.

• Dependent and Independent Clauses
• Compound and Complex Sentences
• Irregular Verbs from 1 to 40 ( Base form, simple past and past participle only).

Incredible Cell projects!

I am extremely proud of the wonderful job my students did preparing and presenting their edible cell projects.

This is the result of their hard work!

The classroom voted:

• The Most Disgusting ( appearance )

1^st place #10 with  7 votes

2^nd place # 1 with 5 votes

3^rd place #3 with 2 votes

• The Yummiest

1^st place # 13 with  8votes

2^nd place # 6 with  7 votes

3^rd place # 12 with 5 votes

• The Most Creative

1^st place # 13 with  9 votes

2^nd place # 6 with  7 votes

3^rd place # 4  and # 2  were even with 3 votes

Thumbs up for you guys!!!

If your picture was not posted ( 5 C ) , please do not hesitate to tell me! I'll post it ASAP :)

Nov. 8th to 12th

November  is already here. We have some upcoming events that need to be organized ahead of time.
We will collect different 1st need items to build some Christmas baskets to our school janitors.
We will arrange and decorate them for Nov. 25th.

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Write at home the sentences that were not written in class, from Spelling List #5 for Wednesday 10th.
2. Print, cut  and bring to class the following pictures: Donatello's David and ConCondotierro de Gattamelata. (Attention to the size of your pictures)for Thursday 11th.
3. Read Maniac Magee chapters 1- 20.
4. Study for our Spelling test 5 words and meaningful sentences. Thursday 11th.
5. Study for our Grammar Test 3: Independent and Dependent Clauses, Compound and Complex sentences and Irregular verbs from awake to feel.
6. Next week, we will have our I Term Speeches( Oral Skills Term evaluation)GET READY!
7. Poetry contest will be held next week in our School Auditorium.

Things to take into account during this week.

CELL PROJECT
Due date is on Monday 8th. Remember that some questions will be asked orally about how you did your projects.Do your best!
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
We will talk about Donatello Di Nicollo Di Beto Bardi.
You will have to bring for Thursday12th, the following pictures of his work: Donatellos'David, Condotierro de Gattamelata.


ATTENTION TO G.K PICTURES



Remember to print them in a size that fits your notebook

( max 7x7 cm).

READING AND WRITING
Read at home Maniac Magee from chapters 1 to 20. We may have a class activity about these chapters.
We will start reading a new story "The Diver and the Dolphin".
We will keep working on paragraphs.

SPELLING
We will practice meaningful sentences with the words from list #5. Some sentences will be written in the class the rest will be written at home. Read the meanings of each word at home.

Spelling List 5
WORD	MEANINGS
1.    communicate	To convey information about; make known; impart. To have an interchange, as of ideas
2.    desperate	Having lost all hope; despairing
3.    cooperate	To work or act together toward a common end or purpose
4.    dolphins	Any of various marine cetacean mammals, such as the bottle-nosed dolphin, of the family Delphinidae, related to the whales but generally smaller and having a beaklike snout.
5.    doom	To condemn to ruination or death To destine to an unhappy end.
6.    hover	To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air
7.    injure	To cause physical harm to; hurt
8.    gills	The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that breathe water to obtain oxygen, consisting of a filamentous structure of vascular membranes across which dissolved gases are exchanged.
9.    fierce	Having a savage and violent nature; ferocious
10.  marble	A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture
11.  bronze	Any of various alloys of copper and tin in various proportions, sometimes with traces of other metals.
12.  expression	The act of expressing, conveying, or representing in words, art, music, or movement; a manifestation
13.  equestrian	Of or relating to horseback riding or horseback riders
14.  energy	A source of usable power, such as petroleum or coal Exertion of vigor or power
15.  pioneer	One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle. One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development
16.  fur	The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, such as a fox or beaver
17.  hatch	To emerge from or break out of an egg To produce (young) from an egg.
18.  duckbill	A semi aquatic egg-laying mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) of Australia and Tasmania, having a broad flat tail, webbed feet, and a snout resembling a duck's bill. Also called duckbill, duck-billed platypus
19.  feathers	One of the light, flat growths forming the plumage of birds
20.  feed	To give food to; supply with nourishment:

GRAMMAR
We will review Independent and Dependent Clauses, and Compound and Complex Sentences before our test#3. This will be on Friday 13th.
Please review the list of irregular verbs from 1 to 40 (awake to feel).



	Base Form	Simple Past Tense	Past Participle	Present Participle
1.	awake	awoke	awoken	awakening
2.	be	was, were	been	being
3.	bear	bore	born	Bearing
4.	beat	beat	beat	Beating
5.	become	became	become	Becoming
6.	begin	began	begun	beginning
7.	bend	bent	bent	bending
8.	bet	bet	Bet	betting
9.	bind	bound	bound	binding
10.	bite	bit	bitten	biting
11.	bleed	bled	bled	bleeding
12.	blow	blew	blown	blowing
13.	break	broke	broken	breaking
14.	breed	bred	bred	breeding
15.	bring	brought	brought	bringing
16.	broadcast	broadcast	broadcast	broadcasting
17.	build	built	built	building
18.	burn	burned/burnt	burned/burnt	burning
19.	burst	burst	burst	bursting
20.	buy	bought	bought	buying
21.	cast	cast	cast	casting
22.	catch	caught	caught	catching
23.	choose	chose	chosen	choosing
24.	cling	clung	clung	clinging
25.	come	came	come	coming
26.	cost	cost	cost	costing
27.	creep	crept	crept	creeping
28.	cut	cut	cut	cutting
29.	deal	dealt	dealt	dealing
30.	dig	dug	dug	digging
31.	dive	dived/dove	dived	diving
32.	do	did	done	doing
33.	draw	drew	drawn	drawing
34.	dream	dreamed/dreamt	dreamed/dreamt	dreaming
35.	drive	drove	driven	driving
36.	drink	drank	drunk	drinking
37.	eat	ate	eaten	eating
38.	fall	fell	fallen	falling
39.	feed	fed	fed	feeding
40.	feel	felt	felt	feeling