February 27-March 2

• This week is reteach week in reading!
• There will be no reading story, no vocabulary words, and no spelling words.
• There will be a grammar review quiz and a focus skill review quiz on Thursday!
• This is read across America Week! It's going to be an exciting week!
• Bingo cards are on sale through Tuesday for $1.
• Monday is Hat Day!
• Tuesday is Stripes Day!
• Wednesday is Green Day!
• Thursday is Seuss Character Day Up Day!
• Friday is Readathon!
• We will be completing Chapter 10 this week in social studies. Chapter 10 tests will also be this week!
• The Dental Bus will be here on Wednesday, February 29th. If you are interested in your child seeing the dentist, please return the package of information filled out and signed.
• Please make sure your child has paper and pencils!!!!!!!

February 20-24

Hope everyone enjoyed President's Day!

• This week's reading story is The Invention Convention.
• This week vocabulary words are scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, and measly. Tuesday's night homework is to write the definitions from the glossary of the reading book and return on Wednesday.
• This week's spelling words are review: irreplaceable, immature, indefinite, illiterate, independent, applicant, accountant, insistent, novelist, technician, cellist, porous, glorious, spontaneous, fictitious, mountainous,weak, week, dual, and duel. Check your child's agenda book nightly for spelling homework!
• This week's focus skills are review: making inferences and main idea and details.
• This week's grammar skills are review: subjective/objective pronouns, possessive/reflexive pronouns, adjectives/articles, and main/helping verbs.
• Both classes are working on Chapter 10 in social studies.
• This week's math mania dress up day is "Rocking Rithmatic"--rock star day.
• Remember the note that came home last week stating that your child's spelling, grammar, and reading with now all be on the same sheet of paper.
• Be on the look out for "Read Across America" week letters!!

February 13-17

• This week's story is Inventing the Future.
• This week's story genre is a biography.
• This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
• This week's vocabulary words are irrepressible, feat, industry, tendency, device, and prestigious.
• This week's spelling words are homophones: steal, steel, waste, waist, weak, week, base, bass, pain, pane, flare, flair, dual, duel, stationary, stationery, flower, flour, sight, and site. The students will need to know what each word means because they will have to spell the correct homophone that fits in the sentence.
• This week's grammar skill is main and helping verbs.
• Make sure your child is studying the DOL study guide on Thursday nights!
• Mrs. Tillman's homeroom will be completing chapter 9 in social studies this week and taking the test. My homeroom will be beginning chapter 10.
• The spelling, grammar, and reading tests will be Thursday this week instead of Friday because of the bowling field trip.
• If your child is going on Friday, be looking for a reminder note from the p.e. teachers.
• Remember no school on Monday, February 20th!
• Remember to check your child's agenda book every night. They have HOMEWORK for a grade!
• Remember your child needs pencils and paper daily at school!
• Your child's reading, spelling, and grammar tests are now going to be on the same sheet of paper to save copies. I have reached my limit on copies for the year, so every copy now is money out of my pocket!

February 6-10

• This week's story is Project Mulberry.
• This week's focus skill is main idea and details.
• This week's vocabulary words are compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, and wispy.
• This week's spelling words are courteous, hazadous, humorous, monstrous, porous, curious, furious, glorious, delirious, fictitious, gracious, ambitious, discourteous, dangerous, anxious, spontaneous, religious, delicious, mountainous, and ridiculous.
• This week's grammar skill is adjectives and articles.
• Please check your child's agenda book every night. Their homework should be listed!
• We are working on Chapter 9 in social studies this week.
• Progress reports go home on Tuesday, February 7. Please sign and return.
• This Friday's math mania day is "Math Across the Ages". Decade Day!