Week of May 2

Wow, here we are in May already. Time flies when you've got terrific students, parents and co-workers! Summer will be here before we know it! But before that....EOG season is upon us! This week, all classes will continue to review, spelling words are based on EOG need-to-know words and we are working on a travel project that incorporates graphs and charts for additional work on those skills.
The fourth and final project and essay are due on Monday! I sent home a paper that explains the format for the final essay. Students must follow that paper. I plan to add this final essay to the student's permanent MAPP binder, which is the folder that follows them from year to year. I will include a copy of the assignment and grade according to how closely it was followed, as well as creativity and conventions.
Progress reports go home this week.
Next week's Vocab:
5th grade Vocabulary Week of May 2
From EOG pretest booklet
directly
dialog
myth
proposition
abundance
tall tale
illustration
sequence
foreshadow
emphasize
figurative language
conclusion
inference
similar
clarify
discretion

6th grade Vocabulary Words
Taken from EOG pretest booklet
Week of May 2
clarify
author’s purpose
dialect
dialog
oral history
sarcasm
overstatement
characteristic
point of view
evidence
accurate
conclusion
quotation
consequences
identifies
effectively