12/10-12/14 Spelling List and Homework Note

Dear Parents and Students,

This is our last full week before Christmas Break! Next week there is only school for 3 days, the 17th,

18th, and 19th. The 17th will be my last day before the break since my husband is having major surgery

on the 18th (thyroidectemy). So we will have a little class party on the 17th involving an ugly sweater

contest, a hot chocolate bar, watching "The Grinch" and doing a white elephant gift exchange. So all

students should bring a silly/fun/free or cheap white elephant gift wrapped up for that day of school.
They will still also participate in the 6th grade level party on the 19th.This week we are working on
converting measurements in math. We will be finishing up our insulation

projects in science and our book club projects in reading. I hope you all have a wonderful

week!

Love,

Professor Malouf

Unit 3: Week 3
Spelling Words

1. address
2. against
3. always
4. answer
5. because
6. believe
7. brought
8. children
9. cousin
10. doesn’t
11. dollar
12. enough
13. guess
14. instead
15. people
16. receive
17. straight
18. until
19. usually
20. woman

Vocabulary Words:

1. abundant—present in large quantities
2. impoverished—has few resources or little wealth
3. ingenuity—show cleverness or skillfulness
4. productivity—the rate at which a person or business

makes or does something
5. sharecropper—a farmer who rents part of another farmer’s land by paying the farmland owner with money or a portion of the crop

6. solitude—alone
7. unearthed—to discover, dig up, or get out of the ground
8. windswept—not protected from the wind