Walls and Waites Words of Wisdom : March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Newsletter Week of March 31- April 4

Volume 3, Issue 5

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1/2 to 3^rd Trimester AR Goal

Boosterthon Pep Rally

Homework

Read 25 minutes (at least 20 pages) & record on Reading Log

Students must complete at least 60 minutes during the week on DreamBox!

*Conduct, DreamBox & Reading Log will be checked

*sign Conduct, Reading Log

& DreamBox log

Tests

Reading Test

*Spelling Test

*Multiplication Tables Quiz

The Week Ahead…		Upcoming Events
Math	Fractions	April 10- Montgomery Field Trip April 11- Boosterthon Fun Run April 17- Club Day April 25- Friday Freeze
Science	Measurement
Reading	Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
Language	Verbs
Writing	Begin Opinion Writing Unit
AL History	Ch. 7 – Alabama Grows

Spelling Words
permit	rebel	suspect	reject	resent
proceed	research	overlook	read	wind
where’ll	where’s	couldn’t	wouldn’t	shouldn’t
they’re	didn’t	you’re	we’re	I’ve

Vocabulary Words
bountiful	vast	stature	relentless	roused
resourceful	intentions	inadvertently

Vocabulary Words for Week of March 31 - April 4

bountiful	If you had a bountiful amount of something, you would have a lot of it.
vast	Something that is vast is so wide it would be hard to get across it.
stature	A person’s stature is his or her height.
relentless	Someone who is relentless in trying to do something keeps at it and refuses to give up.
roused	If you roused someone, you woke up or alerted that person.
resourceful	A resourceful person is good at finding ways to solve problems.
intentions	Intentions are ideas about what a person means to do.
inadvertently	If you do something inadvertently, you do it without meaning to.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Civil Rights Biographies - Vocabulary

Civil Rights-Vocabulary

1. discrimination: to treat some people better than others for an unfair reason

2. prejudice: an unfair feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, gender, religion, etc.

3. segregation: to separate or set apart from others

4. integration: combining of racial groups who were previously separated

5. suffrage: the right to vote in an election

6. rights: something that a person should be allowed to have, get, or do

Week of March 17 - 21

March 17-21

Volume 3, Issue 4