"After winter, but before spring, there’s a muddy, cold, gray sliver of a season. . ."

". . .The ground is almost bare, yet very little grows. This season is not good for much . . . unless you’re one of those overalls-clad, Northwoods diehards who eagerly awaits the running of the maple sap. If you are, you lovingly set aside this season, “from the Ides of March to the singing of the spring peepers,” for tending your trees."

~by Eva Apelqvist

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 

APRIL 8--12

LANGUAGE ARTS, GRADES 5/6

Monday:  Complete "Millions of Mummies" cartoon activity &amp
Tuesday:  Bibliography lesson

Wednesday:  Type final draft/complete final touches of Pharaoh report

Thursday:  Continue typing final draft/complete final touches of Pharaoh report

Friday:  Turn in completed Pharaoh Report

SPELLING, GRADE 6

Monday:  Homonym activity, part 1


Tuesday:  Homonym activity, part 2


Wednesday -- Thursday: Have fun playing these interactive games!

• Homonym Memory Game
• Guess the Homonym
• Homonym Madness 
• Word Confusion 
• Homographs -- Tossed-Up Talents 
•  Synonym Hangman
•  Antonyms Millionaire                                                                                               

Friday:  Fairy Tale Homograph activity.


SOCIAL STUDIES, GRADES 5/6

Monday/Tuesday & Wednesday/Thursday: Painting Chicken Mummies and Sarcophagi & concluding project

Friday: Activity day, Mrs. M.'s class

Wonderful maple sugaring  photo:  http://www.fruitlands.org/sites/default/files/image/iStock_maple%20sugaring.JPG

Quote:  http://www.travelwisconsin.com/article/things-to-do/a-walk-in-the-sugar-bush?articleid=186

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain

Rabbit, Rabbit!  . . .and so we start another month--the one that takes us from snow drifts lingering on shadowed hillsides (and yes, that occasional awakening to snow-covered lawns) to daffodils dotting grassy meadows.  Peepers will be out within two weeks, mark my word. 

Anyway, with the improvement in weather conditions comes the all too familiar desire for children to do just about anything to get out of completing school work.  Ahh, youth.  Now teaching and parenting must become a bit more, shall we say, inventive. (Kind of like hiding the peas in the ice cream.  Well, sort of. . .)

   Please help your child to remain on track with homework. 

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 
APRIL 1-5 

Spelling

Monday:  "Right Spelling, Wrong Word"

Tuesday:  Practice session for "S-BAC" online testing pilot

Wednesday:  Begin "S-BAC" 

Thursday:  "Words with Multiple Meanings"

Friday:  READ-A-THON all day!  Fundraiser -- Please consider sponsoring your child--any checks can be made payable to "Meals on Wheels."

Social Studies

Monday:  Mrs. M.'s class -- Watch the movie, "Building the Great Pyramid."

Tuesday:  Mrs. D.'s class -- Same as above.

Wednesday: Mrs. M.'s class -- Mummify those chickens!

Thursday:  Mrs. D.'s class -- Same as above. 

Language Arts

Monday:  Egyptian Poetry Project

Tuesday:  Complete Egyptian Poetry Project

Wednesday: Grade 6 pilots "S-BAC" online test.

Thursday:  "Millions of Mummies" 6-panel cartoon summaries.

Friday:  READ-A-THON!

  

Reading

Monday: Study hall to complete overdue work.  Ten points off late work turned in today!

Tuesday:  Comprehension activity/silent reading

Wednesday:  No class -- read aloud in Library

Thursday: Comprehension activity/silent reading

Friday: READ-A-THON! 

Beautiful artwork, huh?  Fireflies under the Springtime Moon can be found @ 

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