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Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year!

***PARENTS- PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK YOUR CHILD'S PLANNER ON A DAILY 
BASIS.  STUDENTS SHOULD BE RECORDING THEIR HOMEWORK, AND USING IT AS A TOOL 
TO KNOW WHAT THEY NEED TO DO EACH NIGHT.  IF YOU NOTICE THAT YOUR CHILD IS 
FAILING TO COPY DOWN HIS/HER HOMEWORK...PLEASE MAKE ME AWARE OF THE 
SITUATION!! YOUR ASSISTANCE IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.

CAMP FRIENDLY PINES KEY DATES

9/11-  All BLUE and GREEN pages from camp packet need to be returned by this
date.   Even if nothing on the page applies to your child, please return the
sheet with N/A and your signature.  White sheets are for your reference.

9/11- First camp payment due

10/9- Balance of payment due

11/2- Luggage Drop-Off in the Cafeteria from 3-6pm

No WOTW 11/30-12/4

Unit 8 Review Unit words- Grade 5AEP-

Adapt, merge, efficiency, character, suitable, rotation, cycle, propeller,
eventually, fuse, distribution, linger, hazardous, rely, unaware, accountable,
vivid, invitation, journalist, pursue, douse, actuality, regain, logic, fancy,
govern, transit, apply, peculiar, myth, trait, situate, mythical; Bonus word:
systematically

Words of the Week 11/16-11/20

Expedite- verb- to speed up or ease the progress of

Facetious- adj- sarcastic; humorous; not serious

Felicity-noun- happiness; skillful especially with regards to expressing ideas
or oneself

Flaunt- verb- to show off

Garrulous-  adj- talkative; chatty

Words of the Week 11/9-11/13

Docile- adj- obedient; easily taught; easy to work with/handle

Eccentric- adj- irregular; a little kooky; out of the ordinary

Elusive-  adj- evasive; hard to pin down

Emulate- verb- to strive to equal or excel at, usually through imitation

Exacerbate- verb- to make worse

Unit 7 Vocabulary Words- 5AEP-  apply, ceaselessly, fanciful, fantasy,
frenzied, govern, idle, laboratory, logic, lurk, mythical, peculiarly, poise,
regain, reveal, situation, suspend, trait, transition, vaguely

Unit 7 Words- GRADE 8-

adapt, constitution, convalescence, exhaust, expose, hazard, immoderate,
inured, involve, mechanism, moderate, noxious, organism, potent,
psychological, repetition, response, restorative, stress, volume

Words of the Week 10/26-10/30

DAUNT- verb- to make scared; to intimidate; to cause fear

DIGRESS-verb- to stray from the main topic or subject

DISCRETE- adj- separate; unconnected; distinct

Unit 6 Vocabulary- 5AEP- Acknowledge, actual, pursuit, hinder, vivid,
inviting, disclose, reliable, intrigue, version, metropolitan, hazardous,
solemn, linger, impure, unaware, douse, unaccountable, maneuver, journalist

UNIT 6 VOCABULARY- GRADE 8-

advertise, coarse, comic, derision, glamorize, heartily, inevitable, lawless,
persuade, picturesque, recline, reputation, seldom, taciturn, thrust, typical,
undoubtedly, urge, vanity, version

Words of the Week 
10/12-10/16

Cognizant- adj- aware; conscious

Condone- verb; to allow; to permit to happen; to overlook

Connoisseur- noun- an expert, particularly in matters of the arts or taste

Consensus- noun- a general or unanimous agreement

Copious- adj- abundant; plentiful

Unit 5 Words
GRADE 8-  assemble, brilliant, coincide, compulsion, development, enact,
froth, interior, maelstrom, mature, migration, mysterious, navigate,
phenomenon, romantic, spawn, suitable, tragedy, treacherous, unerringly

Words of the Week 
10/5- 10/9

Brevity- noun- briefness

Cajole-verb- to persuade someone to do something that he or she does not
necessarily want to do

Capricious-  adj- unpredictable; likely to change at any moment

Chronic- adj- constant; lasting a long time

Cliche- (accent over the e)-  (noun)- an overused saying or idea

Unit 5 Vocabulary Words- Grade 5-  adapt, awkward, characteristic, compose,
continuous, cope, cycle, distribute, efficient, eventually, fuse,
horizontally, maintain, merge, propel, resistant, rotate, streamline,
suitable, vertical

Words of the Week 
9/28- 10/2

ARDENT- adj- passionate

ASTUTE-  adj- Shrewd; keen in judgment

AWRY- adj- off course; twisted to one side

BENEVOLENT-adj- generous; kind; doing good deeds

GRADE 8: Unit 4 Review Words: 
align, aperture, appraisal, circumstance, critically, determine, diagonally,
disclose, dissolve, distinguish, grave, image, intent,intermittently,
intruder, overtake, retrieve, suffice, sufficient, supple, Abundant, corridor,
cumbersome, enclosure, envision, herald, horde,
magnificent, mass, multitude, ominous, pervade, proclaim, resemblance, sheer,
spectacle, teem, transitional, uncharted, venture, clan, cleft, complex,
conifer, contour, deplete, expanse, fierce, finery,
flounder, luminous, majestic, mar, mythical, outcrop, pristine, scuttle,
spontaneous, steppe, stockpile

No Words of the Week for 9/21- 9/25

Unit 4 Review Unit Vocabulary Words (5AEP):

chemist, development, florist, guarantee, magnificent, safeguard, conductor,
frequency, infrequent, magnify, observation, abnormal, cluster, desperate,
mission, suspense, transformation, vital, curiosity, transfer, translate,
zealous, accomplishment, credit, intense, massive, recall, stamina,
correction, determination, involvement, sensitive, tranquil

Bonus: anonymous

Words of the Week 9/14- 9/18

Alleviate- verb- to relieve, usually temporarily; to lessen

Ambience- noun- atmosphere; mood; feeling

Amiable- adj- friendly; welcoming; agreeable

Anomaly- noun- an irregularity; a deviation

Apocalypse- noun- a revelation; sometimes associated with idea of the world
coming to an end

Language Arts 5AEP- Unit 3 Words:

accomplishment, advantage, constant, corrective, credit, determined, grasp,
intense, involve, massive, orthopedic, quantity, radiology, recall,
sensitivity, sheer, specialist, stamina, tranquilize, veterinarian

GRADE 8- UNIT 3 WORDS:
clan, cleft, complex, conifer, contour, deplete, expanse, fierce, finery,
flounder, luminous, majestic, mar, mythical, outcrop, pristine, scuttle,
spontaneous, steppe, stockpile

Words of the Week 9/8-9/11

Abysmal- adj- extremely hopeless or wretched; horrible

Adamant-adj- stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible

Affluent-adj- extremely wealthy; rich; prosperous

5th Grade Welcome Potluck- 8/11/09- In the cafeteria starting at 5:30!!! Come
make some new friends and spend time with ones that you have known for years.

Back to School Night for 7/8 grades: Tuesday, 8/18/09 from 6-7:30

Back to School Night for 5/6 grades: Thursday 8/20/09 from 6-7:30;  A meeting
regarding Camp Friendly Pines will take place in the cafeteria promptly at 7:30

PICTURE DAY IS THURSDAY, 9/3/09!!!!  Make sure to dress nicely.

UNIT 2 WORDS GRADE 8:

Abundant, corridor, cumbersome, enclosure, envision, herald, horde,
magnificent, mass, multitude, ominous, pervade, proclaim, resemblance, sheer,
spectacle, teem, transitional, uncharted, venture

Words Of The Week 8/31- 9/4

Abash- verb- to embarrass; to make ashamed

Abdicate- verb- to step down from a position of power or authority

Abridge- verb- to shorten or condense

Unit 2 Vocabulary Words (5 AEP)-   abnormal, accumulate, cluster, curious,
desperate, effectiveness, endear, mission, mute, mutiny, quest, repulsive,
suspense, technician, testimony, transformation, untimely, venture, vital, zeal

Unit 1 Vocabulary Words (5AEP) alter, chemist, condition, conduct, detect, 
development, establish, florist, formation, frequently, guarantee, handicap, 
informative, inseparable, magnificent, observe, prediction, render, 
safeguard, seasonal

Unit 1 Vocabulary- (8th Grade LA):
align, aperture, appraisal, circumstance, critically, determine, diagonally,
disclose, dissolve, distinguish, grave, image, intent,intermittently,
intruder, overtake, retrieve, suffice, sufficient, supple

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