January 30-February 3

• This week's story is Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street.
• This week's vocabulary words are extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, and hiatus.
• This week's focus skill is making inferences.
• This week's spelling words are accountant, applicant, attendant, defiant, mutineer, expectant, hesitant, quadrant, resistant, servant, dependent, indulgent, insistent, urgent, auctioneer, accompanist, artist, cellist, technician, and novelist.
• We will be taking Chapter 8 social studies test this week and beginning chapter 9.
• This week's math mania theme is "Out of this World Math". Dress as an alien.
• Progress reports go home Tuesday, February 7. Please sign and return.

January 23-27

• This week's story is Lesson 16: The School Story.
• This week's vocabulary words are indication, baffled, proposed, instinct, tempted, insights, and essence.
• This week's spelling words are inactive, inaccurate, irregular, irrelevant, ineffective, imbalance, immature, impatient, imperfect, impossible, illegal, illiterate, illegible, inaction, independent, invalid, indefinite, injustice, irreplaceable, and impolite.
• This week's grammar skill is subjective and objective case pronouns.
• This week's focus skill is making inferences.
• We are beginning Chapter 8 in Social Studies.
• Make sure your child has pencils and paper every day!

January 16-20

• Congrats to ALL the 5th grade for graduating from D.A.R.E. last Friday. Congratulations to Hunter, Jonah, and Sophia for being our class essay winners!
• This week is reteach week in reading, spelling, and grammar.
• There will be no weekly reading story, but there will be a focus skill quiz on Friday.
• There will no spelling words this week, but there will be a grammar review quiz.
• There will be a chapter 7 social studies test this week, but it is open book and page # given.
• We will begin Math Blitz this Friday, January 20th. The theme this week is "Math Round Up" (western wear).

Jaunary 9-13

• Happy New Year!
• Please make sure that your child has pencils and paper every day!
• This week's story is How Prairie Became Ocean.
• This week's spelling words are review words. They are enemy, fanatic, honest, ocean, slogan, reclaim, reconsider, uninformed, unwise, nonexistent, digestible, enjoyable, admissible, argument, amazement, priceless, capitol, general, mayor, and theater.
• There is spelling homework on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
• This week's vocabulary words are recount, uninhabitable, sustain, monotonous, endeavor, dwell, brimming, teeming, parched, and sorrowful.
• The grammar skills are also review. Common and proper nouns; singular and plural nouns; possessive nouns; and pronouns and antecedents.
• We will be beginning Chapter 7 in Social Studies this week. Test TBA. Remember social studies tests are open book and page numbers given.
• D.A.R.E. graduation is this Friday, January 13th at 9:00.
• Yearbooks are on sale. $30.00. You can pay $15.00 now and $15.00 by April 30th!
• If you have any questions about bullying, the Alabama Department of Education has a great new link. Check it out!                                    http://alex.state.al.us/stopbullying/
• Congrats to ALL of the students who received an award last Friday! Way to go!

 If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! Looking forward to a new semester!