Spelling List

1. basketball
2. wheelchair
3. cheerleader
4. newscast
5. weekend
6. everybody
7. up-to-date
8. grandparent
9. first aid
10. wildlife
11. highway
12. daytime
13. whoever
14. test tube
15. turnpike
16. shipyard
17. homemade
18. household
19. salesperson
20.brother-in-law

Challenge
extraordinary
self-assured
quick-witted
limelight
junior high school

Poem of the Week

Lazy Witch

Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?
Get up and stir your magic brew.
Here’s candlelight to chase the gloom.
Jump up and mount your flying broom
And muster up your charms and spells
And wicked grins and piercing yells.
It’s Halloween! There’s work to do!
Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?

Reminders

• Ask your child about the fabulous salmon presentation on Wednesday of this week. We will be shocked if you don't receive a very positive report. Kids have been creating wonderful thank-yous to presenter Kathy Morgan from the EWEB grant that sponsors the salmon raising/education program.
• Be looking for more exciting salmon events in the future, including: students checking pH, temperature, ammonia and egg survival on a daily basis; students calculating temperature units (TUs) and predicting hatching date; a grant-funded field trip to Fish Creek (Nov. 12) to view spawning salmon (hopefully) and to participate in classes; classroom activities and lessons around salmon; and, finally, the release of salmon in the WISTEC canal just before winter break.
  

Spelling List

1. steal
2. stealth
3. cave
4. cavity
5. wise
6. wisdom
7. deal
8. dealt
9. athlete
10. athletic
11. crime
12. criminal
13. breathe
14. breath
15. wild
16. wilderness
17. shade
18. shadow
19. revise
20. revision
    

Reminders

• Library Day is Monday
• On Wednesday, both 5th grade and both 2nd grade classes will have presentations on the life cycle of salmon. All four classes will be raising salmon and all four are scheduled for a field trip to Fish Creek to (hopefully) watch spawning salmon and to participate in classes. Salmon eggs are scheduled to be delivered on October 28. Check in the classrooms to see the waiting tanks.
  

Poem of the Week

Toltecs

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts

They played their drums
They were singers
They made songs
They guarded their songs in their memories

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts.

Reminders

• Monday, October 13, is the day that students must turn in their completed Oceanography Unit Book and take our unit final. Parents would do well to have the child show you his/her "completed" unit book so that you may help them determine whether it is in fact complete.

• Monday is always library day. Remind students to return books.

Spelling List

1. slept
2. split
3. staff
4. fade
5. praise
6. slope
7. claim
8. stroll
9. mood
10. beast
11. crush
12. fond
13. dwell
14. strike
15. clue
16. boast
17. flute
18. sway
19. cruise
20. mild
21. grasp
22. swift
23. bunk
24. slight
25. thrown
26. stole
27. fleet
28. dew
29. youth
30. thigh

Poem of the Week

12 October

From where I stand now
the world is flat
flat out flat,
no end to that.

Where my eyes go the land moves out.
How is it then
five hundred years ago (about)
Columbus found
that far beyond flat on flat
the world was round?

Spelling List

1. thrown
2. stole
3. clue
4. dew
5. choose
6. rule
7. boast
8. cruise
9. stroll
10. route
11. mood
12. loaf
13. growth
14. youth
15. slope
16. bruise
17. loose
18. rude
19. flow
20. flute

Challenge
subdue
pursuit
molten
reproach
presume

Poem of the Week

Christopher Columbus

There are lots of strange things that discoverers do
But his was the strangest, I swear.
He discovered our country in One Four Nine Two
By thinking it couldn’t be there.

He paid no attention to protest or squall,
This obstinate son of the mast,
And so in the end, he discovered us all,
Remarking, “Here’s India, at last!”