Bauman's Bugle, Spelling and Vocabulary 1/4 - 1/8

Fifth Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 3, Week 4, “Mahalia Jackson”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days.  (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills” on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.)  You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
What do people gain from the work of inventors and artists?	How does an artist use music to inspire others?
Word Analysis (These are the word parts we are studying in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Suffix: -ous	One consonant or two accomplish, address, allowance, appreciate, barricade, broccoli, collar, collect, command, committee, gallop, immediate, mirror, Mississippi, opponent, possess, recess, Tennessee, zucchini
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Lesson/Tested Vocabulary (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
beat, digital music, fiddle, harmonize, jam session, melody, movement, steady symphony, tempo	appreciate, barber, choir, released, religious, slavery, teenager
Focus on Legibility: Shape, Size, Spacing and Slant

Spelling Words

Unit 3, Week 4

1. accomplish

2. address

3. allowance

4. announce

5. appreciate

6. barricade

7. broccoli

8. collar

9. collect

10. command

11. committee

12. gallop

13. immediate

14. mirror

15. Mississippi

16. opponent

17. possess

18. recess

19. Tennessee

20. zucchini

Challenge Words:

21. silhouette

22. millionaire

23. dilemma

24. embarrassment

25. compassionate

Vocabulary Unit 3, Week 4

1. appreciate-      to think highly of; to enjoy

2. barber-            a person whose business is cutting hair and shaving or trimming beards

3. choir-              a group of singers who sing together, often in a religious service

4. released-                  permitted to be published, shown, sold, etc.

5. religious-         much interested in the belief, study, and worship of God or gods

6. slavery-           the condition of being owned by another person and being made to word without wages

7. teenager-         a person in his or her teens, ages 13 through 19