Halloween Week!

10/29

Dear Parents and Students,

Happy Halloween Week! On Wednesday, students should come dressed in their costumes.
The parade will start at 9 am with the cute Kindergarteners. Parents should watch from the gym.
Students are allowed to stay in their costumes the rest of the day as long as they aren’t distracting to
learning and the students can sit down, write, and see properly. We will have our party with the whole 6th grade in the gym from 2-3 pm. This week for spelling we will study some spooky words :). In reading we
will work on inferencing and in writing we will finish up and share our scary stories. In math we will
finish up chapter 3 and test on Friday. Let’s have a spooktacular week!

Love,

Professor Malouf

Spelling Words:

1. spooky

2. trick-or-treat

3. Halloween

4. monster

5. vampire

6. Dracula

7. Frankenstein

8. jack-o-lantern

9. pumpkin

10. autumn

11. October

12. goblin

13. zombie

14. hocus pocus

15. witch

16. ghost

17. spell

18. cauldron

19. ghoul

20. candy

Bonus:

1. murder: a group of crows

2. mysterious: puzzling, unexplained, confused.

3. uncanny: surpassing the ordinary or common

4. specter: a ghostly appearing figure

5. horrendous: causing fear, horror, dread, or terror

6. pall: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

7. wraith: a mental representation of some haunting experience.

8. eerie: suggestive of the supernatural or mysterious.

10/23 Spelling List and Homework Note

10/23

Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome back! I hope you all had a relaxing fall break. This week we’ll be learning more about ancient civilizations. We’ll continue to study - and + integers in math. On Thursday and Friday the students will have a substitute while I’m at a reading conference. I hope to bring exciting ideas back to the classroom. Please continue to have students read 30 minutes daily and to turn in their math reflection in complete sentences and relate what we learned to real life. Let’s have a fabulous week!

Love,

Professor Malouf

Unit 2 Week 3
Spelling Words

1. factor
2. banner
3. victim
4. mental
5. former
6. pantry
7. classic
8. whisper
9. pumpkin
10. muffler
11. ragged
12. kingdom
13. bubble
14. necklace
15. wallet 1
6. ponder
17. tunnel
18. swelling
19. snapshot
20. fabric

Vocabulary Words:

1. alcove—a small space set back in a wall or room
2. commerce—the buying and selling of products to make

money
3. domestic—related to family or life at home
4. exotic—unusual and interesting
5. fluent—speaks or writes a language well
6. stifling—suffocating or extremely close
7. upheaval—a major or sudden change that often creates

problems or distress
8. utmost—of the greatest or highest degree or amount

10/15 Note: Harry Potter Movie

10/15-10/17

Dear Parents and Students,

Happy short week of school. After Wednesday there will be no school until next Tuesday. Because of the short week there will be no math reflection or spelling due this week, but the students are still expected to read 30 minutes each day. We finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on Friday and will be watching the movie on Wednesday doing a compare and contrast Venn diagram, character analysis, and relationship development. It should be a fun activity before Fall Break. The students are allowed to bring treats and snacks to share and wear pajamas and bring blankets, pillows, etc. If you have any concerns about your student watching the movie, please let me know. Thank you!

Love,

Professor Malouf

10/8 Spelling List and Homework Note

Unit 2 Week 2
Spelling Words

1. sloped

2. caring

3. leveled

4. sipped

5. based

6. patting

7. orbiting

8. credited

9. labored

10. running

11. referred

12. clapping

13. unpacking

14. wanted

15. smiling

16. glimmering

17. tasted

18. changing

19. covered

20. folding

Vocabulary Words:

1. aspiring—seeking to accomplish a goal

2. foundation—the basis on which something
is developed

3. preceded—something that came before
something else

4. principal—the most important part of
something

5. promote—to help an idea grow or progress

6. restrict—to limit or confine something

7. speculation—ideas or discussion about
why something has happened or might happen
8. withstood—to have resisted or held out against something

Dear Parents and Students,

We had such an amazing field trip to the Planetarium on Friday. I'm looking forward to our Parent-Teacher-Conferences this Wednesday and Thursday. You should have a reminder note sent home today for your student's day and time. The book fair is also open this week! See you all soon!

Love,
Professor Malouf