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

UVU Women's Volleyball Field Trip. Go Wolverines!

We had such a great time touring Utah Valley University and then cheering on the Women's Volleball Team on our first field trip. The students were wonderful fans decorating their faces, making posters, cheering, stomping their feet, dancing with Willy the Wolverine and the cheerleaders, and being all around the coolest kids there. I think it strengthened their bonds and our classroom community and connectedness. It was a marvelous experience.

10/1 Homework Note and Spelling Words

10/1/2018

Dear Parents and Students,

Happy October! Don’t forget about the Halloween Carnival tonight from 4-7 pm!
Last week’s field trip to the UVU Women’s’ Volleyball game was a blast. This week we will be going on a
field trip to the Clark Planetarium on Friday. If your student is bringing home lunch, please send it in a
brown paper sack with their name written on it neatly so we can dispose of it while we’re out.
Due to limited bus space and funds, we can’t invite any parents on this field trip. However if you’d like to
pay for yourself and drive yourself you are welcome to meet us there and tag along. This will be such a
great extension to all we’ve been learning about in science the last several weeks. Next week on Wednesday
and Thursday, the 10th and 11th I get to meet with you about your student’s progress and goals at
parent-teacher conferences. We will be finishing up our fraction unit in math this week with dividing fractions.
In their math reflections, please help think of ways what we learn in math applies to real life problems and
solutions.Happy 7th week of school!

Love,

Professor Malouf

Spelling Words: Plural Words

1. echoes

2. photos

3. data

4. scarves

5. volcanoes

6. shelves

7. media

8. lives

9. wolves

10. potatoes

11. solos

12. thieves

13. wives

14. cuffs

15. staffs

16. tomatoes

17. sofas

18. tornadoes

19. pianos

20. loaves

Vocabulary Words: Bonus Words

1. artifact—a human-made object, usually from a particular

period in history

2. communal—shared by a group

3. derived—can be traced back to its origin

4. inscription—something that is written, engraved, carved,

or painted as a lasting record

5. millennium—a period of 1,000 years

6. stationery—writing paper or envelopes

7. utilize—to use something

8. yields—the amounts or quantities of something

produced or grown, such as crops

9/24 Spelling List and Homework Note

9/24/2018

Dear Parents and Students,

Happy 6th week of 6th grade!!! We get to go on our field trip this Thursday to tour
UVU campus and watch the women’s volleyball game. Go Wolverines! If you lose
your spelling list, check professormalouf.blogspot.com to study at home. The
Halloween Carnival is coming one Monday from today, October 1st from 4-7. I hope
to see you all there. Please have your students fill out their homework math
reflection in complete sentences and to make sure they relate what we are
learning to the real world/life! Let’s have a great week!

Love,

Professor  Malouf

Spelling Words

1. heartbeat

2. northwest

3. seaweed

4. eyelid

5. seashell

6. twenty-five

7. farmyard

8. roundup

9. teammate

10. right-handed

11. full-time

12. windshield

13. watermelon

14. rooftop

15. blindfold

16. light bulb

17. after-school

18. teenager

19. fisherman

20. question mark
Bonus Words:

1. available—ready for use or purchase
2. basically—in the main or most important ways
3. factors—things that contribute to a result
4. fluctuate—to move back and forth or up and down
5. formula—a rule or method for doing something
6. inventory—the amount of goods or products that is

available
7. manufactured—to be made by machines, often in large

numbers
8. salaries—the amounts of money workers earn for doing

a job