August 27-31

• Again, thank you all for such a great first week of school. We are running a regular routine this week, so if you have any questions, please let me know!
• This week's story is Rope Burn (pages 26-39).
• This week's genre is realistic fiction.
• This week's focus skill is conflict, plot, and resolution.
• This week's vocabulary words are humiliation, fringes, expectations, coaxed, sincere, and hesitating.
• This week's spelling words are bandage, chest, drift, dull, dusk, stretch, flock, fond, measure, cactus, scrap, shift, smash, switch, swept, threat, timid, plaid, trust, and twist.
• This week's grammar skill is declarative and interrogative sentences. Remember the DOL comes home on Thursday to prepare for the test.
• There is a reading, spelling, and grammar test on Friday.
• We will begin Chapter 1 in Social Studies on Monday. I will let your child know when the chapter tests are. The social studies tests are open book.
• Agenda books will be in soon, until then the students will be writing their homework on the back of the vocabulary/spelling words study guide.
• Looking forward to a wonderful week of learning!