Month: May 2019

Monday, 5/13 (17): Lexile Testing

Click:  https://h100000583.education.scholastic.com/slms/studentaccess

 

Click the blue RI icon on the lower left. Follow the directions. Make a note of your score.
The last time we did this was 3/30. With any luck, we should have improved. Right?

If you have Ms. Knuttila or Ms. Ahearn you have already taken this.

No homework this week!

Bring your headphones tomorrow!

Bring something analog to do if you finish early (especially Thursday and Friday).

Alternating block schedule begins tomorrow.

Friday, 5/10 (18): SCRABBLE Training!

LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE.
Scrabble Practice Round.

  • Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
  • Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
  • If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
  • Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
  • Keep a running total, like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):

 

Jimmy (First Player)
17 (first turn)
6  (second turn)
23 (total so far)
14 (third turn)
37 (total so far)		 Johnny (Second Player)
23
15
38
7
45

 

  • First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word)  in the middle.
  • Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
  • Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
  • NO! NO! NO!
    • NO abbreviations or contractions
    • NO foreign words
    • NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)
  • Check the dictionary.

Multiplier squares are one use only! Once they’re covered up, they’re used up!

Extra credit for anyone who breaks 75.
Extra points in the game for use of vocabulary words or SAWs: Add 3 points to the value of the word.

Thursday, 5/9: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test 32

OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT, 6:30-8:00!

Prep sheet for Test #32:
Spelling: ___/5 ___/8   Spelling/Roots h/w: ___/10   TS Quizzes: ___/6 ___/6
Vocab h/w: ___20   Vocab Practice: ___/14 ___/14
Other Extra Credit: Spelling Bee?___   Vocab Relay?___

 

Mental Floss.

  1. “She” is a word that contains two personal pronouns: she and he. What five-letter word beginning with “U” contains four personal pronouns? (Hint: wedding.)
  2. Even if you give this to someone else, you still keep it. What is it?
  3. Which is more desirable, an old hundred dollar bill or a new one?
  4. What gets bigger the more you take away from it, but smaller the more you add to it?
  5. Which word in the English language, beginning with “P”, is singular until an “S” is added to the end and it becomes a plural, but reverts back to a singular word if another letter “S” is added to the end? (Hint: royal musician)

 

Test #32: Doodle Theme: Doodle on the pics that are there.

Wednesday, 5/8: Spelling + Bee, Vocab + Relay, Tom Sawyer

Tomorrow’s Test: What? Already? Spelling, Vocabulary, Tom Sawyer

“Spelling, 5/8.” (8) For 1-4, write the wrong one correctly or write “all correct” if they are.

  1. a) scissers  b) fragile  c) congestion  d) all correct
  2. a) digestion  b) infraction  c) insision d) all correct
  3. a) insignia  b) critique  c) hypocrit d) all correct
  4. a) decisive  b) designate,  c) criticism d) all correct
  5. “breakable” = _____
  6. “Cut away ish” =_____
  7. (2) “judgement” = _____

Spelling Bee. All words so far are included! Highest percent accuracy = Winner! 75% accuracy to receive extra credit.

“Vocabulary, 5/8.” gratify, cacophony, wreak, rapt, effusive, nigh, saunter, conjecture, vogue, pliable

  1. Tom went behind the limestone “waterfall” in order to use his candle to light it up to _____ Becky.
  2. A zero ____(s) much more damage on your grade than just an F.
  3. Young brains are very ____ and can be easily influenced.
  4. The end of the school year is ____; please don’t give up now.
  5. After Cherry told Dally to get lost, he just smiled and ____(ed) away.
  6. Batman’s butler Alfred is not a very _____ person. He is always very calm and reserved.
  7. In Tom’s day, the _____ was to wear shoes with the toes curled up.
  8. There was much _____ in Tom’s school about what was in the Master’s mysterious book.
  9. With dozens of little kids playing and screaming, the birthday party was rather _____(ous).
  10. The boys were ____ as Tom explained his marvelous plan.
  11. The roots of this word mean “foldable.”
  12. The roots of this word mean “jumbled sound.”
  13. The roots of this word mean “together throw thing.”
  14. The roots of this word mean “to pour out.”

Vocab Relay. True/False Stylie.

  1. Cacophony would be rather calming to most people.
  2. Wreak is usually used in a negative way.
  3. If were in a hurry, you would saunter.
  4. Transfixed and rapt are similar in meaning.
  5. If it is Wednesday, Thursday is nigh.
  6. The top of your desk is pliable.
  7. Alyce (Beetle) was very effusive with her emotions.
  8. The root of the word conjecture means “to throw.”
  9. Vaping is very vogue right now.
  10. Most people would be gratified to win the lottery.
  11. There will probably be cacophony at the end of the last day of school.
  12. A’s wreak destruction on your grade.
  13. People usually get effusive at things like weddings and funerals.
  14. Most people would be rapt watching someone saunter.
  15. Gymnasts’ bodies must be pliable.

Tom Sawyer Quiz. (6)

  1. (slang) “slathers” = “a raft” (p158) a) True.  b) False.
  2. (slang) “comb a body” =  smother you with love  (p160)  a) True.  b) False.
  3. (dialect) “shadder”  = shatter or break  (p161)  a) True.  b) False.
  4. (slang) “tackle” = attempt (p163)  a) True.  b) False.
  5. If the lawyer promised not to reveal Huck’s name, why is Huck still worried about Injun Joe? 
  6. The picture was included with chapter 24. Of whom is it a picture?  

Tuesday, 5/7: Spelling, Vocab, Tom Sawyer

Checking definitions.

“Spelling/Roots, 5/7.” Roots correction: frac/frag = to break

  1. “cut things” = _____
  2. “beneath judge person” = ____
  3. “together pile up thing” = _____
  4. “into cut thing” = _____
  5. “into mark thing” = _____

“Vocabulary, 5/7.”
 

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. When Tom testified at the trial, the audience was “______ in the ghastly fascination of the tale.”
  6. Tom and Joe _______(ed) out to the playground, and casually lit up their pipes.
  7. Although there was a lot of ______, nobody actually knew what happened.
  8. Poofy hair and big shoulder pads were in _____ for women in the mid ’80s.
  9. The court jester performed for the_____(ication) of the king.
  10. The shoes were new, so the leather was not very ____ yet.
  11. Some groups of people are preparing for the end of the world, because they think the end is _____.
  12. The hurricane _____(ed) destruction on the poor island.
  13. The sub didn’t have much control over the class, and there was quite a(n) ____ when the principal walked in.
  14. When the boys came back from “the dead,” Aunt Polly ____(ly) hugged and kissed Tom, and then embarrassed Huck by doing the same to him.

 

Tom Sawyer Quiz. You may write the capital letter.

  1. Which of these quotes comes from the scene in Picture 1?  a) “Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn’t be alive two days that got found out.”  b) “Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, about the hour of midnight?”  c) “I reckon he’s a goner.”  d) “Little hands, and weak–but they’ve helped Muff Potter a power…”  e) NOTA
  2. “Little hands, and weak–but they’ve helped Muff Potter a power, and they’d help him more if they could.” (p151) Why is this ironic?
  3. Which of these did the prosecution NOT use as evidence that Muff did it?  a) The fact that the knife was Muff’s.  b) Muff’s guilty behavior at the scene.  c) Muff washing up in the creek.  d) Injun Joe’s eyewitness account.  e) They used them all.
  4. At the beginning of the trial, what was Muff’s lawyer’s strategy for defending him? 
  5. “Tom was out late that night and came to bed through the window.” (p151)  Where did he go? 
  6. Who is the one with a club in Picture 2?

Tom Sawyer: Buried Treasure!