Spelling words for week of Nov. 26

Lesson 12:

1. pantry
2. flute
3. bicycle
4. picture
5. memories
6. darkroom
7. answers
8. phone
9. tongue
10. office
11. address
12. classroom
13. lucky
14. unlucky
15. money

A guest speaker, F&V Derby, and spelling words

November 9 - We enjoyed hearing from a guest speaker, David Lien. He talked to the kids about mountain climbing, setting goals and trying to achieve them, and his adventure of attempting to climb Mt. Everest. After the talk, he allowed the students to try on some of his gear.

Nov. 16 - We celebrated the end of our nutrition unit with a Fruit and Veggie Derby. The kids worked in teams to create a vehicle to "race" down a ramp. 

Team 1 - the Funky Fruits

 Team 2 - the Grapesters

Team 3 - the Bouncing Bananas

Team 4 - the Derby Girls

 Team 5 - the Banana-mobile

Team 6 - the Vicious Riders

After the first race attempts, the students went "back to the drawing board" and modified their vehicles before racing again.

The white strips mark where the vehicles ended up. The strip of the car that went the farthest is way off to the right of the photo. It really rolled!

SPELLING WORDS for Lesson 11:
1. wrinkles
2. friend
3. timer

4. shutter
5. film
6. peonies
7. farmer
8. perfect
9. teacher
10. walrus
11. dollars
12. homework
13. blackboard
14. proud
15. tickle

Spelling Words for week of Nov. 7-9

For the next several weeks, the students will be reading two novels - Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teacher's House and Journey. The spelling words for Lessons 9-12 will be taken from those two books, so they won't follow a set spelling pattern.

Lesson 9:
1. journey

2. meadow

3. camera

4. travel

5. lilacs

6. album

7. photograph

8. garden

9. fence

10. sneeze

11. bowl

12. walrus

13. liver

14. plate

15. bonus

Halloween Hijinks

The Halloween season was full of art projects, joke reading, and dressing up. Here are a few pictures from our classroom.