Reminder

AR swimming party tomorrow from 9 to 11.  See Mrs. Jordan to check out at 11:00 at the rec center.

Reminders

We have several students that still need to pay for the End of the Year Party  ($13).  We need this money in the morning to finalize our plans.

Also, permission slips for the AR swimming party need to be turned in tomorrow.

End of the Year Party

The $13 for the End of the Year Party needs to be turned in tomorrow, May 13.  I need 3 drivers for Friday.  Please let me know if you would be willing to drive. The party will be at Xtreme from 8:30 to 12:30.  Drivers may drop students off at 8:30 and pick up at 12:30, if they are unable to stay.  Also, the Powder Puff game is at 1:30  that afternoon.  The cost is $2.  The following is a list of foods the students signed up to bring to the party.  Just let me know if you need to make a change.

Chips/Dip - Judson, Anna Claire, Donna, and Ella Cate
Cupcakes - Brady
Candy- Peyton and Lola  
Fruit- Elijah
Pretzels- Cathy
Brownies- Andrew and Kate
Cookies- Dee
Buffalo chicken dip- Tre
Doritos- Logan

Elementary Honor's Program

The Elementary Honor's Program will be Wednesday, May 13, at 9:00.  1st - 5th grades will be recognized.

Field Day

Field Day is May 12 from 1 - 3:00 for 1st through 6th grades.  Snacks and drinks will be available for $1 per item.  Students need to wear sunscreen and clothing that can get wet.

AR Deadline

May 8 is the last day for AR this school year.  PLEASE read your AR books and be ready to test!

Donation

If you would like to make a cash donation toward the purchase of a gas card for Mrs. Baggett,  you may send it to the office in the morning.

Spelling/Language 6 A&B

Spelling words - autographs, physician, enclosed, reflection, hospital, finale, university, unique, uniform, avoid, avoidable, elite
You only have 12 words this week because of your research paper


Language-

I was very pleased with the rough drafts last week.
Final paper is due Friday, May 8
Remember the order for your paper-

Title Page
Outline
Paper
Bibliography
Pictures
             
           
             
           

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling words- tied, tide, stake, steak, hymn, horse, hoarse, throne, thrown, sweet, suite, brake, break, reel, real, plain, plane, waist, waste, heard
You will need to know the meaning of the word to match with the correct spelling.

Test Friday

Language- The 4 Complements - Direct Objects, Indirect Object, Predicate Nominative, & Predicate Adjective
Important Rules found on pages 278, 281,  & 282

Reminders

PTO - May 7


Sr. Play- May 8  for students  cost $2

Last Day for AR - May 8

AR swimming party - May 18

End of the Year Party

Our end of the year party will be May 15, from 8:30 - 12:30 at Xtreme.  The cost is $13 per student.  This will cover the cost of the gym, pizza and drinks.  We will have a sign up sheet for other food to be brought by the students.  The Powder Puff game will be at 1:30 on the same day.  Admission will be $2.

Huntsville Field Trip

May 11  is the Huntsville  Field Trip.  Please be at school by 5:00 am. We will have sausage biscuits on the bus for everyone.  Please bring your own drink.  You have already paid for lunch.  You will need money for dinner that night and if you wish to buy a souvenir from the gift shop.  We should return home by 9:00 pm.

State Softball Tournament

Due to the State Softball Tournament on Friday, May 1, Grades 7 - 12 will dismiss at 11:00 am.  Grades 6 and under may check out to go to the game with a note from their parents.

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling words for the week of April 27 - May 1- transistor, transfer, credit, record, applaud, audition, hospitality, faculty, animal, captain, dentist, doctor, introduction, popular, vacuum, terrain, recognized, monstrous, miraculous, temporary

Test Friday

Language-  Unit 15 Complements- Direct Objects and Indirect Objects; Linking and Action Verbs

Spelling/Language 6 A&B

Spelling words for the week of April 27 - May 1 - educable,educate, education, force, enforce, enforcement, know, knowledge, unknown, occupy, occupancy, occupational, relevance, irrelevant, relevant, danger, endangerment, endangered, extinction

Test - Friday

Language- I have been very pleased with the work I have seen on the research papers.  Continue working on papers this week.  Rough drafts are due this Friday, May 1.  I will provide time to work on these in class if needed.

AR Deadline

PLEASE read your AR Books.  The deadline is May 8.  Remember, the AR pool party is May 18!

Recycling Contest

The 5th Grade won the recycling contest.  We collected over 300 pounds of plastic.  Thanks to all the parents for their help with this project.  Also, a special thanks to Mr. Robert Jacobs for his help.

Important Dates

April 20-24 - Book Fair in the library.

April 22 - Liberty Learning Celebration 9:00  cafetorium

May 8 - cut off for AR

May 8 - School performance for the Sr. Drama Class play.  Cost $2 per student.  I will start collecting that now.

May 11 - Field Trip- Huntsville

May 12 - Field Day 1:00-3:00

May 13- Elementary Honors Day Program - 9:00

May 16 - PLAS Pageant  I have already sent forms home with 5th grade girls.

May 18- AR pool party at Rec. Center

May 22 - Graduation

Spelling/ Language 6 A&B

Spelling- Week of April 20-24 -  Homophones  -addition, edition, bazaar, bizarre, borough, burrow, cereal, serial, complement, compliment, naval, navel, profit, prophet, wrapped, rapped, fare, piece, great, rode   Know the meaning of each word.  See page 144 for definitions.
Test Friday

Language- This week begins our research writing project.  Unit 6 - (pages 88 - 109) provides examples for each step in writing a research paper.  I gave the students an information page with due dates.  3- 3x5 Bibliography Cards are due this Friday, April 24, in students folder.
Examples - see pages 88 and 89.
The purpose for this activity is for students to become familiar with the steps in writing a research paper.  (They will soon be jr. high students.)  Please don't stress.  we will work on this together.

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling  - Week of April 20- 24 - explosion, vision, examination, measure, position, discussion, edition, pleasure, version, education, tradition, selection, collision, restriction, illusion, nation, direction, destruction, starvation, duration


Language- Unit 15 - Complements- Direct Objects

Baseball Game

The baseball game for today has just been rescheduled.  It will be played today at 1:30.

Reminders

Please remember to save all your plastic bottles for our class.  We need these in by Friday, April 17.


Please read AR Books!!  May 8 is the last day for AR this school year.

Spelling/Language 6 A&B

Spelling words for students reading The Cay - massive, outrageous, constantly, binoculars, district, terror, imagination, convince, fascination, stunned, publications, destroy, gravel, coarse, lifetime (15)

Test Friday

Spelling words for students reading Freak the Mighty- geezer, refrigerator, tenement, impressive, scientific, drool, earthling, consequences, whack, identify, intersection, cellar, mechanical, actually, artifact

Test Friday

Language - We are going back in the book to Unit 6- Steps in writing a research paper.  Students need to think about a topic for their paper.  There are several listed on page 87.    Students need to  read pages 87-91.

Reading 5B

Our story this week will be "Circles, Squares, and Daggers"  pages 144- 151.
We will take notes this week for our Study Guide.  Vocabulary Quiz - Friday
Comprehension Test - Friday

Please continue to read AR Books.  Last day to take an AR test will be May 8.

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling words for the week are: knotted, thinning, blurred, dropped, stirring, begged, starring, sobbed, fitting, dragged, fanned, petting, snapped, hopping, robbed, admitted, digging, trapping, hotter, winning

Test Friday

Language- review the rules for quotation marks and underlining on pages 151 and 162.  We will also review and practice with synonyms and antonyms.

Reminders

School will dismiss at 11:50 Friday, April 10 due to the Prom.


April 10 is the last day to donate money or items for the Troy Animal Rescue Project.


May 8 will be the last day for AR.  PLEASE read your AR books.


We are still collecting plastic bottles for the recycling contest.  Please send in your bottles.

Reminder- McWane Field Trip- April 7

This information was sent home last week with students.  I just wanted to post a reminder.
5:45 - Arrive at school
6:15- Depart for Birmingham
5:15 p.m.- Return to School

Students wear blue Pike Lib field trip t-shirt
Students will need lunch money($10-$12)
(They may also want money for the Gift Shop.)
A snack will also be provided on the return trip.

Chaperones for our class are:

Greston Holmes
Aileen Gardiner
Pam Little
Gayle Anderson
Alison Sanders
Jennifer Deloney
Cae Allen
Tawana Douglas
Lori Jacobs

McWane Field Trip/ Reminders

I am sending a letter  home today with all the information for the field trip on Tuesday.  Please check with your child for this information.  We need to be at school at 5:45 on Tuesday morning.

School will be out for Good Friday on April 3.

REMEMBER  NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, APRIL 6

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling Words - heavy, heavier, worry, worried, envy, envious, butterfly, butterflies, daisy, daisies, bury, buried,supply, supplies,centuries

Test Thursday

Language - Unit 9 - Capitalization, Punctuation- (Quotation Marks and Underlining)
                                Read/Review rules on pages 158,160, and 163

Honor's Assembly - Third Nine Weeks

The Honor's Assembly will be Friday, March 20, at 9:00.

Important Dates and Reminders

March 19 - Club picture for 4H

March 23 - 27- Spring Break

March 30 - Spirit Night at Santa Fe (5-9)

April 3- Holiday -Good Friday

April 6- Holiday

April 7- McWane Field Trip

April 10 - Dismiss at 11:50 (Prom)

April 13-17 - City of Troy Recycling Contest- begin collecting plastic for our class


The 4th nine weeks will fly by - Please READ your AR BOOKS and TEST  early.  We do not want to get behind this last nine weeks.

Reading 5 B

Our story this week is "Tanya's Reunion" on pages 602- 611.  Students have a list of vocabulary words and meanings.  We will read in class and discuss.  Students will complete study guide in class.  Test will be Friday.

Language/ Spelling 5 A&B

Spelling words  for the week - staircase, landmark, barefoot, campground, snowflake, earthquake, bookkeeper, typewriter, springtime, motorcycle, newspaper, granddaughter, sweatshirt, background, thunderstorm, meanwhile, moonlight, churchyard, landscape, overhead

Test Friday

Language - Unit 9 Capitalization and punctuation in quotations

Read your AR book.

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

SAT Testing this week for 6th Grade.

Reminders

Due to the baseball tournament, school will dismiss at 11:50 Friday, March 13.

Start saving plastic bottles for the Recycling Contest.  Troy's Clean and Green Week is April 13-17. 

The class that collects the most wins a party.

Please read your AR books.  We have a few that have not met their goal.  March 13 is the last day.

Yearbooks are on sale through this week.  Price is $50.00.

Spring Break - March 23-27.

Reading 5B

We have completed the novel  Tuck Everlasting  and will have a writing activity based on the novel.

Spelling/Language 6 A&B

Language and Spelling test prep and practice with Test Ready.

No spelling test this week.

Spelling/Language 5 A&B

Spelling Words for the week- boys', boss's, babies', parents', ladies', girls', pilot's, waiter's, director's, friend's,officer's, owner's, teachers', customer's, actor's
The words this week are singular or plural possessive nouns.  There will only be 15 words.
Test Friday.

Language - Punctuation - Using quotation marks.

Reading

We will complete our novel this week.
Discuss vocabulary and meaning.  Writing activity- If I Could Live Forever.  Discuss study questions.  Test Friday morning.

Remember to continue to read AR books.  Only a few days left to reach our goals!

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

Spelling- No spelling test this week.

Language-  Identify predicate adjectives as a complement.  Label parts of speech in sentences.
                   Skills practice for SAT.

Language/Spelling 5 A&B

Spelling words- zero, zeros, trio, trios, hero, heroes, echo, echoes, potato, potatoes, halo, halos, radios, buffalo, buffaloes, colonies, taxes, themselves, clothes, speeches

Test will be Thursday due to the field trip on Friday.

Language - Identify singular, singular possessive, plural, and plural possessive forms of nouns.
                   Correct use of colons, semicolons, hyphens, and underlining of titles.

Reminders

The field trip to the performance of "Frozen" is Friday, March 6.  We plan to leave around 9:30 and return to school around 2:30.  We will eat lunch in Dothan, so you will need to send extra money with your child. Students need to dress nicely.

This week is "Read Across America".  The Fifth Grade students may participate in the dress themes for each day. Monday-Favorite Dr. Seuss character; Tuesday- Silly socks; Wednesday- Tacky clothing within dress code; Thursday- Grinchiest  Green Day wear green; Friday - Red and White Day(Cat in the Hat).  Students may also participate in a poster contest about your favorite Dr. Seuss book. Posters must be turned in by 9:00 Thursday.

Yearbooks are on sale now through March 13.  The cost is $50.  No extras will be ordered.

School will dismiss at 11:50 on Friday, March 13 due to the Jonah McWaters baseball tournament.

The Honor's Assembly for the third nine weeks will be Friday, March 20 at 9:00.

We still have a few students that have not met their AR goal.  March 13 is the last day to reach your goal for this nine weeks.  Please encourage your child to read.

Spring Break will be March 23-27.

Reminder

We have 3 weeks left to reach our AR goals.  Please continue to encourage your child to read their AR books.

Reading

We will continue reading novel Tuck Everlasting .  This week we will read chapters 17 - 23 in class and discuss.   Vocabulary and comprehension tests on Friday.

Language/Spelling 5 A&B

Spelling words for the week - carpet, civil, countless, wrench, waffle, clover, shower, carve, glisten, steeple, gnarled, angle, crouch, cleats, popcorn, ankles, porches, stroke, thumb, around

Test Friday

Language - Complete rough draft and revise essay for writing competition about the Constitution.
Punctuation - 7 rules for the correct use of commas and 3 rules for correct use of apostrophes.

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

Spelling words for The Cay - terror, dishonest, biscuits, coral, stupid, pleaded, imagination, ignore, groaned, satisfaction, stunned, tatters, vaguely, awakened, convince, approached, shiver, fascination, unraveled, driftwood

Test  Friday

Spelling words for Freak the Mighty - artifact, horizon, actually, intersection, laboratory, research, incision, cardiac, mechanical, specifically, bulkhead, fabulous, manages, damsel, testaments, knuckles, cellar, fashion, admitting, clumsy

Test Friday

Language Unit 9 Test Tuesday Review pages 161, 165*, 167,168,171,174* 175, 178, & 181.
                                                                    ( * Very Important)

Language/Spelling 5A&B

Spelling words for the week are- wristwatch, gnat, debt, autumn, folk, rhythm, known, sword, wrinkle, column, wrestle, doubt, gnaw, listen, yolk, whole, aisle, knob, rhymes, science

Test Friday

Language - Study Skill - Punctuation -The many uses of a comma. Study rules in blue boxes on pages 133, 135, 136, 137, and 138.

Spelling 5 A&B

throat, stress, swallow, flavor, clothing, stubborn, profit, clinic, broken, blister, sparkle, startle, stumble, cruel, greedy, grandma, crowded, apron, sponges, starched

Test Friday

Field Trip - Frozen

We have a field trip on Friday, March 6, to see the Southeast Alabama Dance Company perform FROZEN.  Student tickets are $7 and chaperone tickets are $23 each.  We need 4 drivers. Please let me know if you would like to chaperone.  The money must be turned in by Thursday, Feb. 12, to reserve our seats.  Thank You!

6 A&B Spelling

Spelling words for students reading The Cay - temporary, admitted, district, attacked, Caribbean, galleons, binoculars, pontoon, horizon, channel, aviation, refinery, schooners, torpedo, mutiny, massive, constantly, lubricating, murmur, outrageous.

Spelling Words for students reading Freak the Mighty- scrawny, assembly, weird, laser, glimpse, scowling, mastodons, evidence, vacant, drool, duplex, fiend, moron, midget, hunkering, earthling, identify, consequences, humanoid, whack

Cookie Dough Orders

The cookie dough orders are due Feb. 11.

Valentine's Party

Our Valentine's party will be Friday.  We will have a buffet style lunch with finger foods.  Students may bring their drink or purchase it in the cafetorium.  The students have started a list of what they would like to bring.  We have 14 students and I will send a name list home today.

Spelling/Language 6 A&B

Spelling - The 6th grade started a new novel this week.  Their next Spelling Test will be Feb. 11.

Reminders

The SGA is selling cookie dough.  You should have received an order form.  Orders need to be turned in by Feb. 11.

Children's Hospital is having a King and Queen Contest.  Students in K4-6th grade will be participating.  You may collect pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters,or dollars.  The boy that collects the most money will be crowned King and the girl with most will be Queen.  Deadline to turn in money is Feb. 12.

The EXCEL Club is having a shoe drive for children in need.  They are accepting new or slightly used shoes you've outgrown or don't need.  They will be collecting until Feb. 27.

Grades 7-12 will be dismissed at 12:00 on Thursday to attend the basketball games.

The Spring Softball Clinic is Feb. 7 for girls in grades K-6. Contact Coach Park if you would like to register.

The booklets, to be completed with names and addresses, need to be turned in no later than tomorrow.  The school will receive $5.50 for everyone turned in and be placed in a drawing for $100,000 worth of playground equipment.

Field Trip

The 5th and 6th grade classes are planning a trip to the McWane Science Center in Birmingham on April 7, 2015.  The cost is $42 for students and $37 for adults. This does include bus fare, but not the cost for lunch.  If you would like to be one of the chaperones, please let me know.

Reminder

Please continue to read your AR books and test.  Some students have almost met their goal for this grading period.

Reading 5B

Monday- Begin  "The Story of Jumping Mouse".  Discuss vocabulary.
Tuesday- Library
Wednesday- No Class due to History Program
Thursday- Begin reading story aloud and discussing.
Friday- Continue reading story and discussion.  Study skill Genre.
No Test this week.

Storytelling Festival

The Fifth and Sixth Grade students have been invited to attend the Storytelling Festival at Troy University this Friday, January 30.  We will travel to and from the University on our bus.  We will leave campus between 10:25 - 10:45 and return by 1:00.

Language/Spelling 5 A&B

Spelling Words - telephone, microphone, microchip, microscope, photograph, phonograph, photo, graph, centimeter, kilometer, television, millimeter, telegraph, geography, alphabet, automobile, astronaut, unicycle, biography, biology (p. 136)

Test Friday


Language - Our lessons this week are on adjectives that compare, irregular adjectives that compare, and adverbs that compare.  Also, the correct use of good and well and negative adverbs in sentences.  Rules to review - pages 104, 105, 107, 109,110, 112.

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

Spelling Words - bicentennial, bilingual, centimeter, centigrade, monopoly, monologue, monotonous, multicultural, multimedia, polygon, polygraph, quadruple, quadrant, unicycle, universe (p 120)

We have 15 words this week.  Test Friday

Language - Identify Indirect Objects, Direct Objects, Objects of a Preposition, and Nouns of Direct Address

Quiz Wednesday on Direct and Indirect Objects and Predicate Nominatives.

Reminder- Field Trip

We will leave school around 8:15 Friday for the movie at the Troy Continental Cinema.  We will eat lunch at Monarcas following the movie.  Remember to bring money for concessions at the movie and for lunch at Monarcas.

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

Spelling - We have moved the Spelling Test to Thursday due to the field trip.

Language - Continue with Unit 8 Direct and Indirect Objects in sentences.

Language/Spelling 5 A&B

We have moved the Spelling Test to Thursday due to the field trip.

Both 5th grade classes will have a Language Test Wednesday.  We reviewed today.  Students need to study the rules on these pages in their Language books tonight: for adjectives - pages 85,87,88,& 89
Adverbs- pages 92, 93, 94, 95, & 100

Reminder

We will be out of school Monday due to the King/Lee holiday.

Field Trip

We are going to see A Bear Called Paddington  at Continental Cinema in Troy on January 23, 2015.  Movie tickets will be $6.50.  Please send this money by Wednesday, January 21, 2015.  Students may bring money to buy concessions at the movie.  We will eat lunch in Troy after the movie.  Your child will also need money to cover the cost for their lunch.  Please let me know if you would like to drive.

Reminder

PLEASE send items tomorrow for the canned food drive.  Thanks!

Language/Spelling 5 A&B

Spelling - pedal, vain, promotion, laziest, evident, misfire, mission, peddle, disprove, carrying, vein, traction, mismatch, decent, branched, disposition, harvested, smallest, shrinking, dried

Test will be January 23.

Language - Adverbs pages 97- 102.  We marked important rules in our book on pages 92, 93, 94,95, and 100.  Please review these.  The unit test on adjectives and adverbs will be next Wednesday.

Language/Spelling 6 A&B

Spelling - barren, capsize, catastrophe, confrontation, endure, fate, flounder, gratify, immense, perilous, plantation, depressed, contagious, moonstruck, cancer

The test will be January 23.

Language -  Unit 8    Nouns as Complements, Predicate Nominatives, Direct Objects, and Indirect Objects.

Food Drive

The SGA annual Food Drive is in progress through January 16.  The class that brings in the most items  will have a pizza party.

Honor's Program Rescheduled

The program has been changed to Monday at 9:00 in the cafetorium.

Also, students were asked to bring $10 for the deer hunt.  This needs to be in by Friday.  Students will be given a homework pass for the donation.