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!