Students will take a History test on Wednesday December 12th on the Phoenicians & Persians. Students should review their two Phoenicia lectures, their three Persian lectures, and the study guide handout.
Spelling Lesson 14
Lesson 14 – au and aw
- brawny
- laundry
- taught
- paused
- autumn
- awning
- awesome
- launched
- astronauts
- squawking
- drawback
- exhausted
- saucepan
- automatically
- dinosaur
- authentic
- withdrawal
- thesaurus
- precautions
- applause
Spelling Lesson 13
Lesson 13 – Long o
- borrower
- doughnut
- although
- poultry
- bowling
- fallow
- mistletoe
- yellow
- growth
- approaches
- boulders
- stowaway
- thoroughly
- cocoa
- oboe
- bungalow
- tiptoed
- rowboat
- cantaloupe
- shoulders
Nova Book Week
Attention Lower School Parents! The School of Grammar will again be celebrating Nova Book Week this year! Nova’s Book Week will take place the week of December 17-21. We will be highlighting favorite books and celebrating all the wonderful things our students read. We will also invite students to dress up as their favorite book characters on Wednesday, December 19. Please choose characters originally from books, not cartoon, movie or television characters (or actors) made into books. We will have assemblies that day in celebration of the characters represented and the joy of reading. Students may wear their costumes until lunch, but must then change into their Nova uniform. Please make sure your child brings a complete uniform to change into before lunch. More information about the times of the assemblies will be forthcoming.
Spelling Lesson 12
Check with your child’s homeroom teacher for spelling list words. Lesson 12 is a review week from lessons 7-11.
Mr. Kimble’s and Mr. Weninger’s list for lesson 12:
- husband
- desirable
- leisurely
- usually
- invention
- assure
- machinery
- descending
- luscious
- rehearsal
- achievement
- revealed
- succeeded
- squeezed
- resemble
- composure
- partial
- scissors
- muscles
- millionaire
- carefully
- trolley
- delivery
- delete
- greasy
Science Chapter 4 Test Study Guide
Chapter 4 Test Study Guide
Tuesday, November 27
Vocabulary (matching)-erosion, physical weathering, chemical weathering, deposition, mass wasting, earthquake, fault, lava, magma, volcano
Labeling—be able to label a diagram with terms/vocabulary word—for example, types of tectonic plate boundaries, formations
Describe the theory of plate tectonics
Types of plate boundaries—how they are similar and different—convergent, divergent, and transform
Causes of tectonic plate movement and an understanding of what each is—subduction and convection
Types of mountains formed at different plate boundaries—mid-ocean ridges, volcanic arcs, and folded mountain ranges
Lithosphere/Asthenosphere-define each and know the components
How and where volcanoes are formed
Earthquakes—what they are, what causes them, and where they occur (in general by a fault, most often at a plate boundary)
How weathering, erosion, and deposition work together
Erosion—different forces (wind, water, organisms, glaciers) that cause erosion—differences in how these forces erode if the landscape changes (ie—rivers are able to carry heavier sediment if they move faster
Deposition—what causes it to occur (something slows down), what can be formed (deltas), what deposited first (larger sediment)
Food Drive out-of-uniform day
We met our goal for the 2018 Food Drive! Our school wide goal was 3,500 items, and we met this goal by bringing in 3,908 items! One of the incentives for the Lower School to reach it’s goal was a non-uniform day. Therefore, this Friday, November 16th the Lower School will be having a non-uniform day. Thank you to all families who donated to this virtuous effort!
Chapter 4 Science Test – Tuesday, Nov 27
The chapter 4 science test will be Tuesday, November 27th. Students have been learning about the Earth’s surface. The study guide will be sent home before break.
History Quiz on Thursday
We will be having a history quiz on Thursday. Students should review and study the answers to their homework questions as well as their study guides that they received today. They should also study their vocabulary lists. The quiz will cover chapters 7-9.
Mr. Weninger
Homework Club cancelled on Thursday, 11/15/18
Due to Parent/Teacher Conferences, Homework Club will be canceled on Thursday, November 15. Please sign up for Scholar Zone if after-school care is needed.
Submit completed registrations to Scholar Zone no later than Tuesday, November 13 at 5pm should you need after-school care that day. For questions regarding Scholar Zone, please contact Ms. Reinhardt.
Please contact Ms. Hernandez with any questions regarding HW Club or conferences.