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Important Dates & Reminders

May 5
th
-6
th
ACT Aspire
Testing
May 8
th
Talent Show
May 16
th
- Field Day!
May 19
th
-21
st
4-H Camp
May 20
th
-Last Full Day of
Classes!



Parent Signature


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Challenge Words /en/
1. shaken
2. sunken
3. eleven
4. woven
5. widen
6. ridden
7. proven
8. often
9. robin
10. cousin
11. raisin
12. muffin
13. penguin
14. button
15. reason
16. cotton
17. wagon
18. dragon
19. common
20. skeleton

Test Schedule:
Tues: Math Ch. 11 Test - Angles
Wed: Fact Test
Fri: Reading Test
Language Quiz
Spelling Test




Ms. Taylors
Weekly News
April 28
th
May 2
nd

Wonders Unit 6 Week 1 Vocabulary

irritating- when someone
becomes angry or impatient.
ancestors- are people from whom
one is descended.
despised- means looked down on
as worthless, or scorned.
endurance- is the power to put up
with hardships or difficulties.
forfeit- means to lose or have to
give up because of some fault,
accident, or mistake.
honor- means to show or feel
great respect for a person or thing.
intensity- means having or
showing strong feeling, purpose, or
effort.
retreated- means to have
withdrawn or moved back.

Weekly Skills
Comprehension- Reread - to go back
over and read again.
Comprehension skill- Theme- The
theme of the story is the overall
message or lesson that an author
wants to communicate.
Genre- Historical Fiction- has
realistic characters, events, and
settings. It is set in the past and
includes literary element, such as
dialogue.
Vocabulary- Denotation -is the literal
definition of a word that you would find
in the dictionary. Connotation -is the
feeling of a word or the effect that it
has on the reader.

Communication:
The last day to purchase a yearbook
at $30 will be Wednesday, April 30
th
.
Starting May 1
st
, you can still
purchase a yearbook (if there are any
left) but the price will be $35 and will
be on a first come first serve basis.