Spelling #13 Questions

1.)Sometimes we add the suffixes er and est to words to make comparisons.
Read these sentences:
December was cold.
January was colder.
February was the coldest month.

Using the pattern, write three sentences of comparison using each word.

Large ____________________________________
Larger _________________________________
Largest __________________________________________

Small_______________________________________________
Smaller_____________________________________________
Smallest _____________________________________________


New____________________________________________________
Newer___________________________________________________
Newest __________________________________________________
2.)Add er and est to these adjectives and remember to remove the final e before replacing it with the suffix.
er est

long ___________________ _________________
short ___________________ _________________
huge ___________________ _________________
big ___________________ _________________
pretty ___________________ _________________

Electricity Wordsplash

The above wordsplash is full of vocabulary that we will be discussing in Science for the next couple of months. You can click on the picture to see a larger version. You may also go to www.spellingcity.com and play vocabulary games and practice spelling these electricity vocabulary words. We will be studying electricity and how to build simple circuits.

Some Book Suggestions

Here are some of your classmates book suggestions from our survey.
- the Alex Ryder series because they really grab your attention, very exciting, and interesting.
- The Screech Owl series is all about hockey and I like it because I play hockey.
- Percy Jackson because it is exciting and you learn about Greek mythology
- Harry Potter because it's so good!
- Secretariat because it has lots of action.
- When Falcons Fly by David Square.
- the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan.
- any non fiction because we can learn more about our world
- "The Bread Winner" by Deborah Ellis is a very interesting book because it is based on true events. It is about a girl in Afganistan that has to pretend to be a boy in order to get food for her family.

Mr. Borgfjord's Band Blog

Here is the link to Mr. Borgfjord's blog. It has sound files of the pieces they are working on as well as practice sheets that parents/students can download and print if needed.

Student can subscribe to their classes and have email update when Mr. Borgfjord adds anything to the site.

 

http://classjump.com/borgfjord/

Book Survey

Click on the link below to participate:
Our Favorite Books Survey

CPR Digital Story

Band Concert and Craft Sale

The Band concert and craft sale is this Saturday November 20 at MCI. Grade 6 Band performs at 10:30 but are supposed to be at MCI by 9:45. Students are to wear black pants and white shirts. Take home your band instrument and music on Friday so that you will have it on Saturday for the concert. The elementary school will NOT be open for you to get your music or instrument on Saturday.
The performance times are as follows:
Grade 6 Band 10:30
Grade 7/8/9 Band 11:15
MCI choir 12:30
Jazz Band 1:15
Senior Band 2:00

Reminder

Just a reminder that you should be updating your electronic portfolios when you get the chance. We will be showing our portfolios on Tues November 23 and Thursday November 25 from 5:30-8:00. You can choose the night and the time that you want to show your parents. There are no appointments necessary.

Remembrance Day

Our Remembrance Day Service will be held on Wednesday November 10 at 1:00. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please dress up tomorrow, so that we may show our respect. Students are also encouraged to bring in a donation for a poppy.

For our journal #8 entry, students were read aloud the poem "Why Wear A Poppy?" and are asked to respond to this poem in their journal. Some of the entries so far, are very thoughtful. We will be posting some of their ideas tomorrow.

GeoCaching

In Geocaching the main idea is to find an object. To start you have to find a course on the internet, it will have co-ordinates to the object hidden. Then you have to put the co-ordinates into your GPS and it will lead you about ten feet away from the object and then you will have to look really hard becouse some are extremely hard to find.

I like the part in Geochaching where you look around for the object.


By Clayton


We went to the golf course on Monday November 1st and looked for bones in small white containers. We went in groups of two and three and had lots of fun.