September 12-16

• This week's story is "The Daring Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter".
• This week's focus skill is character motives.
• This week's vocabulary words are eccentric, crusaded, impassable, infuriated, relented, disheartened, and faze.
• This week's spelling words end with -ed or -ing. They are talked, hurried, smiling, dropped, clapping, stepped, worried, worrying, changing, stayed, buying, dried, picnicking, scared, driving, obeyed, playing, tried, carried, and hurrying.
• This week's grammar skill is simple and complete subject and predicate.
• Parents, please make sure your child studies the DOL study guide that comes home on Thursday nights. Everything that is on the DOL quiz is on that study guide or previous ones.
• We completed Chapter 1 and the open book test last week. We also began DARE on Friday. The kids really loved it. Be sure to ask them what they are learning. We will begin Chapter 2 this week.
• If you have any questions, please send me an email, note, or call the school and leave a message.
• I am still accepting donations of $15.
• Saints tshirts are still on sale for $10.
• Book Fair begins next Monday, September 19! More information to come!
• Congrats Saints football players on your 1st win! This week's game is away! SCCHS vs. Cleburne Co. Go Saints!