Spelling Quiz postponed

Dear students,
I will postpone your Spelling Test for this week, 15/11-19/11, because of your term Arabic/Religion exams and because of our Thursday Sports Day.
You'll have to study Spelling list 3 for next Sunday, 22/11/2015 (Y4 & Y5).

Good luck with your exams!

Dear students,
Your weekly quiz this week will be only from the Spelling Lists that you all got on Sunday.
Year 5 will have their Spelling test on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 and Year 4, on Thursday, 12/11/2015.

Dear parents,

As I informed you in the beginning of the year, I am trying to set up a class library for my students, so they can start enjoying reading without being forced or pushed.

My idea is to bring carpets, some cushions, pillows or bean bags and make a reading corner. I want to thank Eyad (Year 4) and his parents for being generous. He brought to school a nice rug for my Year 4 reading corner. If anyone else can help us with anything, I and my students, would be grateful.

I am doing my best to bring a rug for Year 5, too. We also need books, lots of them. If you have some to spare from home, please do. My students will take care of them and at the end of the year your child will take them back home. 

I am sure that my students will benefit from this and they will start asking you to buy them new books :)

Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation.

Dear Y4 students,
I am sorry for the late post, but I think I should add here the Spelling list 1 that you need to study for your test on Thursday. For the vocabulary part of the quiz, study the 12 words from the list written and explained in the classroom, or all the Word Cloud and Glossary words from Unit 2.

Spelling List 1

1.rolled _____________ ______________

2. fingers _____________ ______________

3. except _____________ ______________

4. speed _____________ ______________

5. couldn't _____________ ______________

6. questions _____________ ______________

7. catch _____________ ______________

8. itself _____________ ______________

9. mark _____________ ______________

10. button _____________ ______________

11. bargain _____________ ______________

12. certain _____________ ______________

13. orphan _____________ ______________

14. fountain _____________ ______________

15. oxen _____________ ______________

16. latitude _____________ ______________

17. longitude _____________ ______________

18. compass _____________ ______________

19. absolute _____________ ______________

20. equator _____________ ______________

21. compensation

Dear students,

I want to remind you the days that you will have English tests:

YEAR 4: Thursdays
YEAR 5: Wednesdays

The following week, Year 4 will have a Spelling/ Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday, November 5th, and Year 5 will have a Spelling and Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday, November 4th.

Good luck! Study well!

Dear FBS Parents/Guardians,

It is my pleasure to meet you all here. This is an alternative way to communicate with you, to be in contact all the time, for the best of your children, my students.
I will try to post as much and as often as possible. You'll find here a lot of information about homework, tests schedules, study guides, interesting and useful things that happened in our classrooms.
Please feel free to send me your ideas and suggestion, because only together our kids can grow and learn.

Best wishes,
Ms. Diana Giurgi

Study Guide - 4th Quarter Exam

My dearest students,

Here is the last Study Guide of this school year. I hope you'll find everything clear and easy to study.
If there is anything you don't understand, please, let me know.

ENGLISH 4^TH QUARTER EXAM

STUDY GUIDE

GRADE 5

1.     LITERATURE

a.   The World of William Joyce Scrapbook

b.   Hattie’s Birthday Box

c.   Satchmo’s Blues

2.    SPELLING

a.   Prefixes pre- / pro- (pg.78)

b.   Words with –ing / -ed (pg. 84)

c.   VCCCV words (pg. 87)

d.   Related Words (pg. 101)

e.   Words from Spanish

3.    VOCABULARY

Vocabulary units: 9, 10, 11

4.    GRAMMAR

Verbs: - Main Verbs, Helping Verbs

             - Linking Verbs, Action Verbs

-      Present Tenses

-      Past Tenses

-      Future Tenses

-      Perfect Tenses

-      Principal parts of verbs

-      Regular / Irregular verbs

5.    WRITING

a.   How to write a research report

b.   How to write a poem

6.    NOVEL

Chapters 10-15

7.   READING COMPREHENSION –unseen

GOOD LUCK!!!