Maverick Memo
Madison Crossing Elementary
This Week in Class
March 16-20, 2015
Math – Unit 8 Review
Test Friday – Unit 8
Reading –Bud, Not Buddy, chapters 7-9
Skill: Tools of Persuasion
Quiz Friday – Bud, Not Buddy, Vocabulary, and Tools of
Persuasion
Grammar – Review: Simple, Compound, and Complex
Sentences, Appositives, and Subordinate and Coordinate
Conjunctions
Test Thursday – Sentences, Conjunctions, and Appositives
Spelling – poppycock, slugabed, bamboozle, scalawag,
polliwog, ballyhoo, dillydally, hobnob, bonkers,
gobbledygook
Quiz Thursday – Funny Words
Writing – Informational Writing
Science –B4.3: How Does Sound Travel?
Quiz Friday – B4.1-B4.3
MS History – Ch. 9, Lesson 2: Modern Agriculture
Contact 4th Grade
Teachers
School: (601) 898-7710
sblake@madison-schools.com
sbragg@madison-schools.com
jlowe@madison-schools.com
cmckay@madison-schools.com
lparenteau@madison-schools.com
Reminders
 March 25-31 – 4th Grade State Testing
 April 2 – Vicksburg field trip
 May 12-14 – 4th Grade State Testing
Bud, Not Buddy Vocabulary
Chapters 7-9
1. cellar – a room below the surface of the ground
2. stricken – troubled with sorrow
3. matrimonial –marriage
4. radiating – coming forth as in the form of rays
5. gait – moving on foot
6. mouth organ - harmonica
7. wiry – slender but strong and muscular
8. devoured –enjoyed eagerly