Spelling for the Week of September 30th

1.  all

2.  call

3.  fall

4.  wall

5.  ball

6.  tall

7.  on

8.  not

9.  of

10. his

Sentences:

1.  His wall is tall.

2.  The ball will not fall.

Challenge Words:

1.  sentence

2.  great

3.  think

4.  say

5.  help

Enrichment Words:

1.  sentence

2.  cleaner

3.  juice

4.  container

5.  difference

6.  sum

7.  addend

8.  until

9.  earth

10. recycle

11. college

12. wildlife

13. idea

14. could

15. radio

Spelling Words for the Week of September 23rd

1.  hot

2.  hop

3.  pop

4.  pot

5.  dot

6.  not

7.  back

8.  pick

9.  his

10. that

Sentences

1.  The pot is hot.

2.  Hop on the dot.

Challenge Words:

1.  name

2. very

3. through

4. just

5. form

Enrichment Words:

1.  through

2.  September

3.  often

4.  autumn

5.  polish

6.  orange

7.  bedroom

8.  east

9.  order

10. place

11. lesson

12. begin

13. fur

14. direction

15. because

 Today we participated in an inquiry-based science activity.  Our assignment was to build a wall out of Legos.  Our wall had to be 4" in height and strong enough or stable enough to withstand our teacher trying to knock it over by a flick of her finger.  We really had to use our brains and work together to figure out which design would work best.  Most of the walls were a success (after many attempts) but a few toppled down.  We are learning by doing and some of us will be the engineers of tomorrow.


Below is a quote that I love by Benjamin Franklin:

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."

Last Friday we went to the Natural History Museum at SUU.  We learned about plants, seeds, animal skulls, and toured the green houses.  We also went to another building and saw a tarantula, bearded dragon, ball python, and a cockroach from Madagascar.   We even got to watch the bearded dragon eat a cockroach.  Below are the pics from our trip.

We finished the punctuation unit last week.  We learned how to punctuate telling sentences, asking sentences, excited sentences and how to use commas when making a list.  

Spelling Words for the Week of September 16th

1.  pick

2.  pack

3.  tack

4.  back

5.  sack

6.  sick

7.  big

8.  is

9.  was

10. said

1.  I have a big sack.

2.  Pick up the tack.

Challenge Words:

1.  came

2.  show

3.  every

4.  good

5.  give

Enrichment Words:

1.  wonderful

2.  surprise

3.  table

4.  together

5.  group

6.  science

7.  there

8.  their

9.  amazed

10. reading

11. cute

12. would

13. around

14. sentence

15. off