The First 30 Words for the Next Test

Sami, Safa, and Rawya can still win the contest for perfect scores on all 300 spelling words.

1. pink
2. red
3. blue
4. yellow
5. orange
6. white
7. black
8. gray
9. oval
10. square
11. triangle
12. rectangle
13. brother
14. sister
15. grandfather
16. grandmother
17. uncle
18. aunt
19. cousin
20. fire
21.water
22. air
23. gas
24. liquid
25. solid
26. ice
27. melt
28. freeze
29. high
30. low

Remember if you find some words we already had, keep them a secret so you can get an advantage.

For 4B HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!

While I was meeting with your moms, Ms. Marah was teaching the class. Some students may have finished this at the end of class and all students made a good start on it.

Yesterday there were six students who didn't do their homework. Lets try to improve that this time.

Congratulations to our good friend Tariq, who is going to be moving to Mr. Tony's class. He has been a great worker all year and we will miss him a lot.

Rawya

At the conclusion of grading, Rawya Abu Rabee had the highest score with a 59 out of 50. Rawya's exceptional score was a result of winning two contests the previous days and then not getting any questions wrong.

Well Done Rawya!!!!!!

Rawya

The First Two Perfect Spelling Scores

Congratulations to Sami and Safa

For 4B

HOMEWORK!!! HOMEWORK!!! HOMEWORK!!!! HOMEWORK!!!!!

There will be homework tonight. (October 28, 2009)

Yesterday (Tuesday) two of our students had their first football practice. Great job by Ibrahim and by Ahmed Q.

There is no test this Thursday because we had last week's test on Monday. This week we studied:

a
an
some

There isn't any
There aren't any
There isn't a
There isn't an

We also completed a couple stories, some students started work on newspaper stories, and we all kept practicing past tense.

First Day of Hippos

Everything went well. Good practice. Ahmed Q. won the races. Waleed scored several goals and all the boys looked strong.

Big Test Tommorow

Our first big spelling test is tommorow. Everyone did well on the pre-test today so don't worry. Try to find some time to study for science too.

Any student who scores 100 out of 100 tommorow will get a prize

What to Study for the Science Test

Read the Water Chapter again from page 150-160. Read it twice this week. Know what the yellow words mean. These are the words you need to know:

Water Vapor
Groundwater
Wetland
Evaporation
Condensation
Water Cycle
Precipitation

You can find all these words in your glossary (the part in the back of your book where it tells you what words mean)

Study the paper I gave you on water and blood. Study the paper I gave you on sewage and how water is cleaned. Study the questions I gave you on the water cycle.

This test will be easier than you think so don't worry too much.

Hippos Starts This Week

Hippos A will be on Tuesday and Thursday after school. Hippos B will be Saturday and Sunday (the first Sunday will be November 1, 2009)

Two Giant Tests in One Week

On Wednesday we are going to have a spelling test on the first 100 words. There are 90 words posted on this site and I am going to give you the last ten words on Monday. Those ten are going to be the hardest ones.

Any student who gets a 100% will get 10 points on the giant science test on Thursday. We are going to have a test on all the things we have learned about water this year. We are going to study water all week and review the old things we learned.

These are the last 30 words that will be on the blog for Wednesday's test. If there are some words on here twice, don't tell. Just use them to help you

61. Brother
62. Sister
63. Father
64. Mother
65. Strong
66. Thin
67. Skip
68. Stir
69. Stop
70. Toe
71. Finger
72. Arm
73. Elbow
74. Knee
75. Foot
76. Suck
77. Sock
78. September
79. Soft
80. Right
81. Left
82. Turn
83. Index
84. Page
85. Chapter
86. Stem
87. Root
88. Tree
89. Leaf
90. Frog

Today's Match

Today we played our first match of the season. We haven't practiced at all so it was a hard match. Some of our boys had tests and couldn't play. We were also missing Zakariya.

We played a team led by Ms. Lubna's son Iman. Iman and his friends have played us before and we are always happy to have them come to our school. They are all good boys.

We had more time than we thought, so we played two matches. We lost the first match 2-1. Bilal Kayed scored our goal. The second match was a tie 1-1. Mohammed Sindi scored our goal. Mohammed Sindi is on the B team to start but because so many boys couldn't play, we let him play with the A team today.

The match was tied so we moved to penalties. Waleed Titi, Sami Kilani, and Mohammed Sindi all scored their penalties and we won the match 3-1. In two weeks we will play Iman and his friends again. By then we hope our team will be much stronger.

There were many new boys that played for us today. Ziyad Kurdi did a great job in his first Hippos match

The 2009 Pioneers Hippos Teams

All boys who tried out will be playing football this year. I am really excited to work with all of you. Every boy is going to practice, improve, and have fun with me this year. There will be two teams. Hippos A and Hippos B. Hippos A will represent the school against outside teams. Sometimes students will move up from Hippos B or down from Hippos A.

The first 12 students on Hippos A are:

1. Bilal Kayed
2. Waleed Titi
3. Khaled Abu Gosh
4. Omar Helawi
5. Sami Kilani
6. Osama Titi
7. Jihad Jitan
8. Hassan Khouly
9. Zakariya Younis
10. Ahmed Q.
11. Ziyad Kurdi
12. Mo'Men
13.
14.
15.
There are three spaces still open on Hippos A. The three students that are the best on Hippos B will move up to Hippos A. The most important thing for me is that the boys try hard and have fun. If we learn something about football, that's great but its more important to be good friends and have fun.

For Four B

There is no test tommorow because I was in Jerusalem but there will be a test Monday. Study these words:

Practice

Have

Cook

Study

Lose

Win

Beat

Talk

Drive

Here are some pictures from our class:

Some Pictures From Our Class

The Next 30 Words (31-60)

Here are the next 30 words. If you see some that are the same, don't tell anyone. That is one less word you have to spell.

31. Upon
32. Us
33. Use
34. Wash
35. Which
36. Watch
37. Was
38. Were
39. When
40. Second
41. First
42. Third
43. Fourth
44. Fifth
45. Would
46. Could
47. Should
48. Wake
49. Shake
50. Fake
51. Knock
52. Clock
53. Mock
54. Pull
55. Read
56. Lift
57. Research
58. Experiment
59. These
60. Those

Spelling Bee

We are going to have a spelling bee. A spelling bee is a spelling contest. We are going to learn to spell 300 words. Any student who can spell all 300 words correctly will get at least a 90 on their report card.

The winner of the spelling bee will get to be the teacher on two different days (but not the whole day). Here are the first words. Every few days I will post 30 new words until we have 300. When we have 300 we will have the contest. The first words

1. Always
2. Around
3. Because
4. Been
5. Before
6. Best
7. Sean
8. Both
9. Buy
10. Does
11. Doesn’t
12. Gerund
13. Simile
14. Direct
15. Object
16. Noun
17. Adjective
18. Adverb
19. Found
20. Goes
21. Green
22. Gave
23. Pronoun
24. These
25. Their
26. Shall
27. Please
28. Fought
29. Taught
30. Were

Back from Jerusalem

I got back from Jerusalem one day early. I was very happy to see all of you. I missed you so much. My trip was nice. In Tel Aviv I met a thief. In Jerusalem I saw many churches, mosques and restaurants. I met some friends and went swimming at night. It was a good trip.

Our class has many projects that we are working on:

Selling Water

The Vampire Show

Waleed, Sindi, Dawood, Saad, Ahmed and the rest of their group are finishing off the first script now. We should start filming next week.

The Encyclopedia

New Teachers for 5A????????

Great News for 5A!!. Mr. Canavan is going to Jerusalem. Ms. Dalia is going to be helping out but several students are going to get a chance to teach lessons. They will lead the singing fight, organize the Detective game we play, and help Ms. Dalia.

Remember student-teachers, rule the class with an iron fist. (iron is a very strong metal).