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.