Math Quiz Pattern and Relations October 15

We will be having our first Math assessment of the year for the unit on Patterns and Relations on Thursday October 15. A practice test is being sent home, along with some work samples from the unit, and possibly some work that your child may not have been able to finish in the allotted amount of class time. This is not "homework" in the sense that it needs to be handed in, though students have been encouraged to complete it , to ensure that they have a full understanding of the concepts and time to ask questions around their comprehension before the test. Answer keys have been included for the work samples as well. 

If the practice test didn't make it home this weekend and you would still like to practice, you can email me at slywkam@fsd38.ab.ca and I will send it to you. 

October book orders have also been sent home and are due October 15. 

Homophone and Vocabulary Quizzes have been sent home. If you have not yet signed and returned them please do soon as soon as possible.

Students need to bring in an empty shoe box or Kleenex box to make pinhole cameras for science next week. 

New Words, Book Orders

Vocabulary Quiz Next Week Thursday



We have been learning many new vocabulary words in our Novel Study, "The Whipping Boy." Throughout this novel study, we will have several quizzes to ensure we are retaining the new words we are learning. The strategies we have learned so far for vocabulary have been to:

1. Listen for interesting words while reading.
2. Ask someone to define the word.
3. Trade a word that makes sense in its place.
4. Keep a log of new words and definitions.

Here are the words we have learned so far, some of which will appear on the quiz next Thursday September 24.

*Students are only required to know what the words mean and be able to chose correct definitions, complete sentences etc. Spelling is not being assessed on this quiz.

Shrieked- pg 1 - screamed

Fetch -pg 2 -get, bring

Defiantly - pg 2 refuse, refusal

Contrite - pg 4 understanding and sorry

Exasperation - pg 4 disappointed and frustrated

Gloat - pg 4 laugh

Obliged - pg 4 thankful

Breeches pg. 5- pants

Duds- pg.5- clothes, outfit
Ferrets-pg.5  weasel, sick furry things
Reckon- pg.5 I think, I figure
Scholar- pg.5 student
Sums- pg.6 addition, adding
Spite- pg. 6 hate, to get even

Chamber pg.7- bedroom

Manservant- pg 7 slave, servant, maid, butler
Moat- pg 7 a water filled pit (river)  around a castle.
Protested- pg 7 complaining, whining,
Gory-eyed fit- pg 7 spaz
Astonishment- pg 8 shock, surprise, stunned
Scragged- pg 8 handle roughly, beat up

Double-mounted pg- 9 two people riding on a horse

Cobbled-pg.9 street paved with small stones
Sewers pg-9 waterway under the city for disposing of waste
Halter pg 9 leather piece for horses
Insolent pg.11 rude
Cutthroat pg. 11 cruel, murderous

Here is our version of VIncent Van Gogh's wheat fields. This compliments our social studies unit on Alberta and landscape.

Book Orders were sent home today and are due Thursday September 24. 

http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/clubsonline/