Quarter 1 Student Reward

Congratulations to Zoya, Kirollos, Carl, Omar, Dana and Youssef for their achievements this past quarter! Keep up the great work guys!

Announcement and HW

Please make sure students are equipped with a folder that can hold worksheets with a binder.

Students are also required to purchase a dictionary and thesaurus (for children) both pocket size so that it is not too heavy to carry. Please make sure they look up the words they don't know from the "Jobs in space" text they have read in class today.

Sundays will be the quiz day for both grade 5. I will hand them back tomorrow, they are to be corrected for next Sunday.

Several students forgot or didn't complete the sentences and comprehension questions from the movie wall-e which was handed out last week. This needs to be handed tomorrow, please make sure of this.

Thank you!

Movie Wall-E

Last week we started the new theme for the quarter: SPACE!

We watched the movie Wall-E, please make sure that they have watched the movie if your child was absent in class last week.

You can find the movie here: https://fmovies.is/film/walle.prqx

All students have to make sure they have learnt the vocabulary for Sunday, make a sentence of their own using each vocabulary word and answered the comprehension questions. 

Vocabulary from the movie Wall-E

Inhabitant: someone or something that lives in a place; resident.

Ex:The inhabitants of the village knew each other and instantly became suspicious of the stranger walking down the street.

Amiable: having or showing a friendly manner.

Ex: She is so amiable that everybody loves being with her.

Live: to be alive, to have a life rich in experience

Devastate: to destroy or ruin.

Ex:An earthquake devastated the village.

Survive: continue to live or exist in spite of (an accident or ordeal). 

Ex: They had so little food that it was a miracle they survived.

Directive: an official or authoritative instruction

Ex: When your teacher orders you to do your work in class, this is an example of a directive.

Befuddle: confused, mislead

Ex: The road sign, with its arrows pointing in two directions, befuddled most people on the road.

Sedentary: settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise

Ex: A sedentary lifestyle is conducive to weight gain.

Corpulent: obese or overweight

Ex: His sedentary lifestyle contributed to his becoming increasingly corpulent.

Dump: a site for depositing rubbish.

Ex: We took our trash to the town dump.

Pollution: poisons, wastes, or other materials that pollute.

Ex: The sky over the city is filled with pollution.

Extinct: no longer existing.

Ex: Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

Ecology: the relationships between a group of living things and their environment.

Ex: The ecological disaster of water pollution. 

Disaster: a sudden event causing much damage or suffering.

Ex: The volcanic eruption was a disaster for the town.

Soil: the top layer of the earth's surface.

Ex: This soil is full of clay.

Dust storm: a storm of severe winds that sweep up clouds of dust from land dried up by a drought.

Outer space: region beyond the atmosphere of the earth.

Ex: The spacecraft will fly into outer space to explore the moon.

Space station: a large spacecraft in orbit for a long period of time. Space stations are used for scientific study and for launching other spacecraft.

Trash compactor: A machine that compacts rubbish.

Caution: a warning.

Ex: Pay attention to the signs of caution on the way through the wadi.

Prevent: to keep or stop from happening.

Ex: The iron gate prevented cars from entering.

Comprehension Questions abut the movie Wall-E

1. What is Wall-E’s job on Earth and how does this help Wall-E survive?

2. What happens to Wall-E while he watches movies on the television? 

3. Why did the humans leave Earth? 

4. What can humans do to prevent this from actually happening to the Earth? 

5. What happen to the humans and why are they obese? 

Class Rules

Class Rules

1. Be on time, on task and prepared to learn EVERYDAY! 

#NoFreeDays

2. Respect the teacher, the classroom, other students and yourself.

#BeNice

3. Be responsible for your own learning.

#QuitCheating #WorkHard

4. Clean up after yourself and your peers. 

#NotYourMom

5. Keep all personal electronics PUT AWAY.

#OnlyWithPermission #NoTexting #NoCalling #NoPictures

Student Pledge

The student pledge is to be learnt off by heart by all 5th Graders, I will be selecting students randomly to recite the pledge in class on Sunday and at anytime during the school week! 

Student Pledge 

Today I will do my best to be MY best.

What I do today will make a difference in my life.

My Choices will affect me and those around me. 

I will listen.

I will follow directions.

I will be honest.

I will respect the rights of others. 

I will learn something today, because today matters and my future is build one "now" at a time.