Maverick Memo
Madison Crossing Elementary
December 7-11, 2015
This Week in Class
Math – Unit 5 Review; Multiplication and Division Number
Stories; Strategies for Division
Test Wednesday – Unit 5
Reading –– The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Ch. 15-17
Author’s Purpose
Quiz Friday – Author’s Purpose and Vocabulary
Grammar – Noun Review
Spelling – ram, ewe, stallion, mare, cob, pen, buck, doe,
billy, nanny, hen, rooster, gander, goose, lion, lioness, boar,
sow, tiger, tigress
Quiz Thursday – Animal Words
Writing – Personal Essays
Science – Ch. A4.1-A4.2: What Structures Help Animals
Survive? What Behaviors Help Animals Survive?
Quiz Friday – A4.1-A4.2
MS History – Chapter 5, Lesson 3: Changes in a New State
Contact 4th Grade
Teachers
School: (601) 898-7710
sbragg@madison-schools.com
jlowe@madison-schools.com
cmckay@madison-schools.com
lparenteau@madison-schools.com
sequeena.thompson@madisonschools.com
Reminders
 December 10 @ 6:30: Honor Choir
Concert
 December 17 – Christmas Party 12:301:30
 December 18 – Early Dismissal
 January 4 – Return to school
Vocabulary Words
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Ch. 15-17
1. incantation (n.) – a series of words used to produce a magic spell
2. traitor (v.) – one who betrays another's trust or is false to an
obligation or duty; one who commits treason
3. battlement (n.) – a low wall (as at the top of a castle or a tower) with
open spaces to shoot through
4. stag (n.) – an adult male deer especially of one of the larger kinds
5. vile (adj.) – very or completely bad
6. grate (n.) – a frame or basket of iron bars for holding burning fuel
7. prodigious (adj.) - very big; huge
8. conceal (v.) – to hide from sight
9. skirling (adj.) – a high, shrill, wailing tone
10.
gnaw (v.) - to wear away by repeated biting or nibbling