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!