Thank you SO much parents for all the box tops and bottle caps and coke codes you've been bringing me!  We had a TON of boxtops come in yesterday, and some awesome person even put 2 zip lock bags FULL of coke bottle caps on my desk!   Awesome!

Ski trip is this Friday. Mrs. Buell should be (or probably already) sent out a mass email regarding times etc.

The spelling test over this weeks words won't be until Monday the 16th due to the shortened week.
The lists are as follows:

List 1 - Square group
1. prerecorded
2. preamble
3. present
4. receive
5. reflect
6. refract
7. coauthors
8. recharge
9. reverberate
10. postwar
11. rejoin
12. coexist
13. preface
14. redirect
15. reform
16. prepaid
17. co-anchor
18. recuperate
19. reenter
20. reclaim
21. Post meridiem

List 2. Diamond Group
1. prerecorded
2. reappear
3. postscript
4. cooperate
5. prehistoric
6. posttest
7. coauthors
8. recharge
9. precaution
10. postwar
11. rejoin
12. coexist
13. prefix
14. coworker
15. reform
16. prepaid
17. refresh
18. postdate
19. reenter
20. reclaim
List 3- Circle group
1. rewrite
2. reappear
3. postscript
4. cooperate
5. prehistoric
6. posttest
7. reheart
8. recover
9. precaution
10. preview
11. pretest
12. prefix
13. coworker
14. refresh

Science Test

All 5th grade students have a  test over the Forces and Motion unit this Thursday, January 12th.
    We have been been talking about the test and reviewing for this test since last week. They also knew that there was a test coming up before Break.
Students have been given a study sheet that lets them know what is on the test. Answers can be found in their orange science books as well as on all of their returned warm up sheets.
Test will be multiple choice with two essay questions and will cover the following:
Balanced and unbalanced forces
Contact and non contact forces
How forces acting on an object cause it to be unbalanced or balanced
Calculating the speed of an object using the formula distance divided by time.
Averaging numbers to get an average time or speed
What a point of reference is
What a force is
How you can tell if an object has moved (seeing it doesn't count!)
The two forces that can slow down a moving object ( Gravity and friction)
That friction is a contact force and that gravity, magnetism and electrical fields are non contact forces
The differences between linear and non linear motion
15. postdate