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!!