March 26 - 30 Spelling Words (Challenge #1 List)

This is a list of Spelling Words ONLY for the week of March 26 - 30 (List #Challenge 1). Please click on the "Weekly Spelling Contract" tab to view your homework options for these words.

1. apathy

2. obscure

3. resignation

4. discriminate

5. objective

6. denounce

7. innovate

8. relevant

9. candid

10. discernment

11. disdain

12. abstract

13. temperate

14. enigma

15. inevitable

March 19 - 23 Spelling Words (Contract Z4)

This is a list of Spelling Words ONLY for the week of March 16 - 23. (Contract Z4). Please click on the "Weekly Spelling Contract" tab to view your homework options for these words.

1. solar

2. souvenir

3. sovereign

4. species

5. specifically

6. specific

7. specified

8. specify

9. sufficiently

10. syllables

11. syllable

12. technology

13. techniques

14. technical

15. theory

16. tortoise

17. tranquility

18. tranquil

19. unique

20. university

21. universal

22. universe

23. vacuum

24. vaguely

25. vague

26. victorious

27. victory

28. violence

29. violent

30. xylophone

New Poems for 5th Grading Term

General Store

Some day I’m going to have a store

With a tinkly bell hung over the door,

With real glass cases and counters wide

And drawers all spilly with things inside.

There’ll be a little of everything;

Bolts of calico; balls of string;

Jars of peppermints; tins of tea;

Pots and kettles and crockery;

Seeds in packets; scissors bright;

Kegs of sugar, brown and white;

Sarsaparilla for picnic lunches,

Bananas and rubber boots in bunches.

I’ll fix the window and dust each shelf,

And take the money in all myself.

It will be my store, and I will say:

"What can I do for you today?"

-by Rachel Field

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The Flower-Fed Buffaloes

The flowerfed buffaloes of the spring

In the days of long ago,

Ranged where the locomotives sing

And the prairie flowers lie low:

The tossing, blooming, perfumed grass

Is swept away by wheat,

Wheels and wheels and wheels spin by

In the spring that still is sweet.

But the flowerfed buffaloes of the spring

Left us long ago, They gore no more, they

bellow no more:-

With the Blackfeet lying low,

With the Pawnee lying low.

-by Vachel Lindsay

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The Reading Mother

I had a Mother who read to me

Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,

Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,

"Prisoners" stowed in the hold beneath.

I had a Mother who read me plays

Of ancient and gallant and golden days;

Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe,

Which every boy has a right to know.

I had a Mother who read me tales

Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales

True to his trust til his tragic death,

Faithfulness blent with his final breath.

I had a Mother who read me things

The wholesome life to the boy heart brings

Stories that stir with an upward touch.

Oh, that each Mother of boys were such!

You may have tangible wealth untold;

Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.

Richer than I you can never be

I had a Mother who read to me.

-by Gillian Strickland

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How To Tell The Wild Animals

If ever you should go by chance

To Jungles in the East;

And if there should to you advance

A large and tawny beast,

If he roars at you as you're dyin'

You'll know it is the Asian Lion.

Or if some time when roaming round,

A noble wild beast greets you,

With black stripes on a yellow ground,

Just notice if he eats you.

This simple rule may help you learn

The Bengal Tiger to discern.

If strolling forth, a beast you view,

Whose hide with spots is peppered,

As soon as he has lept on you,

You'll know it is the Leopard.

'Twill do no good to roar with pain,

He'll only leap and leap again.

If when you're walking round your yard,

You meet a creature there,

Who hugs you very, very hard,

Be sure it is the Bear.

If you have any doubt, I guess

He'll give you just one more caress.

Though to distinguish beasts of prey

A novice might nonplus,

The Crocodiles you always may

Tell from Hyenas thus:

Hyenas come with merry smiles;

But if they weep, they’re Crocodiles.

The true Chameleon is small,

A lizard sort of thing;

He hasn't any ears at all,

And not a single wing.

If there is nothing in the tree,

'Tis the Chameleon you see.

-by Carolyn Wells

5th Grade Maturation Clinic

A parent meeting will be held on Wednesday May 21, 2012 from 2pm to 3pm in room 27 on the North side of the school. Students will be joining their parents from 3:15pm to 4:15pm. The girls and the boys will be in separate rooms. The presentaion will be held by Bear River Health Department. Please adjust any carpooling as needed. Please contact Lisa Burbank at tecs.safety@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

We tried to pass out as many permission slips as we could during parent teacher conferences. If you are interested and would like to sign a permission slip, there are more available at the front office or from you child's home room teacher.

Sincerely,
Mr. Hammonds
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. King

March 12 - 15 Spelling Words (Contract Z3)

This is a list of Spelling Words ONLY for the week of March 12 - 15. (Contract Z3). Please click on the "Weekly Spelling Contract" tab to view your homework options for these words.

1. municipal

2. neutral

3. Europe

4. pneumonia

5. lieutenant

6. occurrence

7. parallel

8. percentage

9. percent

10. persistence

11. persist

12. physician

13. porcelain

14. privilege

15. proficiency

16. proficient

17. recipe

18. reflected

19. rendezvous

20. resistance

21. resist

22. rhapsody

23. rhinoceros

24. rhubarb

25. salmon

26. satellites

27. satisfaction

28. satisfactory

29. satisfied

30. satisfy

31. shelves

32. shelf

March 5 - 9 Spelling Words (Contract Z2)

This is a list of Spelling Words ONLY for the week of March 5 - 9. (Contract Z2). Please click on the "Weekly Spelling Contract" tab to view your homework options for these words.

1. efficiency

2. efficient

3. embarrassment

4. embarrass

5. endeavor

6. enthusiasm

7. extraordinary

8. fatiguing

9. fatigue

10. formally

11. formal

12. frontier

13. guarantee

14. guitar

15. humorous

16. humor

17. impressive

18. impression

19. impress

20. incessant

21. Israeli

22. Israel

23. league

24. mathematical

25. mathematics

26. military

27. militia

28. miscellaneous

29. mischievous

30. mischief

31. mortgage